Human Technology Center
The HumTec Project House at RWTH Aachen University aims at fostering high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences. HumTec is part of the RWTH Institutional Strategy, which is funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments.
A project house of the Excellence Initiative developing into a central Hub for interdisciplinary research and teaching at RWTH Aachen University
The new center for interdisciplinary research in science and technology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities contributes significantly to an integrated interdisciplinary technical university:
- Interactions between technology, science and individual/society
- Reflection, anticipation and responsible and critical action
- Fostering the inter- and transdisciplinarity in the construction of knowledge and innovation
- New interdisciplinary degree programmes
Five new professorships
Individual and Technology (Professor Astrid Rosenthal- von der Pütten)
Computational Social Sciences and Humanities (Professor Markus Strohmaier)
Technology and Society (Professor Stefan Böschen)
Philosophy of Science and Technology (Professor Gabriele Gramelsberger)