Funding projects of the TÜV Nord-Vereine
The TÜV Nord-Vereine continue to expand their commitment to the Deutschlandstipendium 2024. The TÜV NORD GROUP shareholder will be supporting a total of 85 students at universities and colleges in 2024.
The support for Bachelor's and Master's students, mainly from computer science, technical or natural science degree programmes at Leibniz Universität, Hochschule Hannover, TU Hamburg-Harburg, HAW Hamburg, TU Braunschweig and TU Clausthal has already been in place for over ten years. New additional scholarships have been awarded at the University of Hamburg, TH Lübeck, the University of Rostock, the West Coast University of Applied Sciences, TU Darmstadt and TU Berlin.
The Deutschlandstipendium was introduced in 2010 by the then federal government. Private sponsors pay 150 euros per month for each scholarship, with the federal government providing the same amount. Most state and state-recognised universities in Germany now offer this programme to support top students through the federal government and private sponsors. In addition to first-class grades, social commitment and special personal achievements are also taken into account. For example, students may be involved in sports clubs or political parties, care for relatives, be single parents or have a refugee or migrant background.
At TU Clausthal, the TÜV Nord associations are supporting the modelling of temperature/water distribution in the exploration and storage of geothermal energy. Deep geothermal energy has considerable potential: in the short term, Germany is in a position to sustainably provide around 25 % of the required heat capacity - the German government wants to tap geothermal potential of 10 TWh by 2030. A doctoral student is working on the question of how the numerical modelling of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes (THMC) can be optimised in connection with deep geothermal reservoirs. Clausthal University of Technology is providing laboratories and offices, while TÜV NORD Gesellschaft DMT is supporting the project.
In a project at the Institute of Photonics at Leibniz Universität Hannover, a doctoral student is working on the development of a miniaturised quantum light source and its use in frequency-based quantum encryption. Previous project successes include The world's first demonstration of frequency-based quantum encryption (including improved stability, compatible with telecommunications networks, resource-efficient). The use case is a quantum mechanical process for the development of a security standard for tap-proof satellite communication. This project is being supported by the TÜV NORD subsidiary ALTER TECHNOLOGY.
The new project is focussing on the investigation and description of new types of molten salt for applications with high heat flows. Molten Salt Reactors (MSR), which use liquid salt as fuel and coolant, are a subgroup of the currently much-discussed Small Modular Reactors (SMR) and are of particular interest in research. The project aims to characterise molten salt for high heat flows. The project is being supported by the Institute for Nuclear Safety and Innovation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM.CNSI) and TÜV NORD EnSys.
TÜV NORD Group will benefit from all the knowledge gained in the long term.