Guiding Principles Research

„The University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw M) is recognized by the State of Bavaria as a university and an institution of higher education within the area of responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Defense. In line with the founding vision of Helmut Schmidt, the Federal Minister of Defense at the time of its establishment, it offers future officers the opportunity to pursue a civilian academic education. As at other universities, its core tasks comprise academic teaching, research, as well as technology and knowledge transfer.“

Research at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich is free. Our goal and aspiration is to generate internationally visible knowledge at the highest scientific level. Good scientific practice is both a matter of principle and a commitment that guides all our activities.

Our research also forms the foundation of excellent teaching. In addition to the civilian research opportunities available at a university, our status as a Bundeswehr university provides access to innovative research domains with a military dimension. We actively embrace the opportunities arising from this unique position. This makes us a reliable partner for the Federal Ministry of Defense and the security authorities.

We attract third-party funding from public research funding programs as well as from public authorities and industry partners. UniBw M particularly encourages the acquisition of funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the European Union. Our sponsoring institution, the Federal Ministry of Defense, provides outstanding research conditions through excellent infrastructure and equipment and is also an important source of third-party funding.

Through the collaboration of its seven university faculties and its three faculties within the University of Applied Sciences sector, UniBw M covers the entire spectrum from basic research to application-oriented research. The broad range of disciplines represented at our faculties enables research on current challenges across a wide variety of topics, including beyond disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together diverse perspectives, we open up innovative fields of research, as exemplified by our guiding theme “Security and Resilience in Technology and Society”.

We are committed to developing strong research profiles and have established interdisciplinary research centers (INDOR, MARC, MORE, RISK, SENS, SMADH, and SPACE) as well as the research institutes CODE and CISS. Alongside internal collaboration, we regard external networking as essential for addressing complex research questions. Therefore, UniBw M places great importance on cooperation with other universities, research institutions, industry, and public administration at both the national and international levels. Our research results should be made as accessible as possible to industry, policymakers, society, and the Bundeswehr. For this reason, we actively support our researchers in transferring their findings into practice, commercializing innovations in cooperation with industry, and pursuing entrepreneurial and start-up activities.

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