Technology Network Bavarian Swabia (TBS)

Networked diversity with regional focus

To bundle competencies and strengthen regional innovation, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences is actively involved in the Technology Network Bavarian Swabia for Resource Efficiency and Health Care Management (TBS). The three Bavarian-Swabian universities of applied sciences, Augsburg, Kempten and Neu-Ulm, as well as the University of Augsburg joined forces in 2012 to form the network. Funded within the framework of the Bavarian action plan "Demographic Change, Rural Areas", the network aims to further expand the interdisciplinary cooperation of the participating partners in the fields of "Resource efficiency" and "Health care management". Significant activities of the TBS include joint applications for third-party funding and research congresses as well as the planning of cross-university courses in continuing education.

A groundbreaking milestone of TBS' work is the construction of a new building for the research field "Materials Resource Management" (MRM). This research and teaching building, located in the south of the University campus next to the Augsburg Innovation Park, is intended especially for the researchers of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and the University of Augsburg.

The associated concept of networking and cooperation, which is already expressed in purely spatial terms by the proximity to the research buildings of the Fraunhofer Society (FhG), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Augsburg Technology Center (TZA), reflects the basic idea of the TBS and continues the cooperative approach of the network in a sustainable manner.