Rektorat

Strategy and Aims

Universities are workshops where the future is being built. Here, students and staff practise new approaches that they then bring into society at large as lived practice. Bielefeld University sees itself as a testing ground for new ideas, new practices, and new directions.

The leading challenges facing society, including climate change, global crises, radicalisation, and declining social cohesion, are important points of orientation in determining the university’s thematic focus. In developing Bielefeld University’s profile, the overarching topics that span across the university, including diversity, equality, sustainability, culture, and transfer, should increasingly be integrated with and strength education, research, and campus life and culture. After all, education can only live up to its true value in the context of responsible action.

We want to prepare our students and apprentices for this kind of education. Our staff ought to be able to participate in and benefit from the continuing development of our university. We rely on continuous self-reflection and effective communication based on clear understanding of shared expectations and competencies.