HfMT celebrates success in the 2nd funding round of the Innovative University

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With its project proposal "The Ligeti Center - Laboratories for Innovation and Social Development through the Transfer of Ideas", the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT), together with other universities and the UKE, will receive funding from the BMBF and the GWK for a further five years from 2023 to 2027.

The vision of the "Ligeti Center" is becoming a reality: the joint application submitted by the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, the Hamburg University of Technology and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in the second round of the federal-state initiative Innovative University was successful. The project "The Ligeti Center - Laboratories for Innovation and Social Development through the Transfer of Ideas" was one of 29 projects selected for funding.

As an interdisciplinary transfer center, the Ligeti Center is intended to bring together Hamburg's various universities and research fields and support interdisciplinary cooperation. Researchers, artists and educators come together under this umbrella to design products and concepts at the intersection of art and science, which find their way into society through public presentation.

University President Prof. Elmar Lampson:
"We were the first art university to win the nationwide Innovative University funding competition in 2018. The fact that we have now also been included in the second funding round is another great success for Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu and his great team, this time together with the UKE, HAW and TUHH as joint partners. The Ligeti Center is all about transferring artistic know-how to society and using artistic working methods as a starting point for social change. I would like to thank everyone involved in this second successful application. This new funding shows once again that artistic universities can develop their own contributions in the context of innovation and transfer. The fact that the name Ligeti was found as an acronym for such processes is a first creative achievement of this network. The approval of our application is encouraging. It comes at exactly the right moment. I am sure that this "Ligeti voice" will not be ignored in the future."

Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu:
"The Ligeti Center will be a place where the arts, sciences and technology come together to answer socially relevant questions - a major milestone towards the university of the future."

The center is named after one of the most famous composers of the 20th century, György Ligeti. Ligeti was Professor of Composition at the HfMT Hamburg from 1973 to 1988 and was interested in a wide range of artistic, cultural and scientific topics, which were also reflected in his compositions. He was friends with a large number of outstanding scientists. In the spirit of Ligeti, the transdisciplinary Ligeti Center to be named after him will now bring together different universities and research fields in the area of transfer.

Contact:

Christine Preuschl
Head of Transfer Office
Hamburg University of Music and Drama
Harvestehuder Weg 12
20148 Hamburg
christine.preuschl@hfmt-hamburg.de
T +49-(0)151 73063038