Interdisciplinary and application-orientated engineering science issues relating to aspects of resource and energy efficiency, the use of renewable energies and intelligent networks

Interdisciplinary research on management problems, innovation and change processes as well as control and regulatory structures in the state, economy and society by economists, social scientists and legal scholars

Basic and applied research in the fields of social medicine, rehabilitation sciences and health services research, in particular in the fields of therapeutic social work, curative education, transdisciplinary early intervention and systemic counselling and therapy