The Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK) is the most heavily funded university of applied sciences in eastern Germany by the German Research Foundation (DFG). According to the latest DFG Funding Atlas, HTWK received funding of 1.6 million euros in the period from 2020 to 2022.
In a nationwide comparison, this puts the university in seventh place among the 100 HAWs receiving funding. Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, which received 1.5 million euros in funding, ranks directly behind it. Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences also made it into the top 20 with funding of one million euros. According to the DFG, the two other universities of applied sciences in Saxony, Dresden and Zwickau, each received less than one million euros in the same period.
"It is not a matter of course to receive funding from the DFG," said the Vice-Rector for Research and Sustainability at HTWK Leipzig, Faouzi Derbel. He was very pleased "that the university has been able to achieve a top position among DFG-funded UAS over the years". At the same time, he emphasized that the total DFG funding acquired by UASs is still low and accounts for less than one percent of the total DFG budget.
