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), in collaboration with other universities and the UKE, will receive funding from the BMBF and the GWK for another five years, from 2023 to 2027.
The vision of the “Ligeti Center” is becoming a reality: The proposal, submitted jointly 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 selected as one of 29 projects to receive funding.
As an interdisciplinary transfer center, the Ligeti Center aims to bring together Hamburg’s diverse higher education institutions and research fields and to support interdisciplinary collaboration. Under this umbrella, researchers, artists, and educators come together to design products and concepts at the intersection of art and science that find their way into society through public presentation.
University President Prof. Elmar Lampson:
“We were the first arts university to succeed in the nationwide ‘Innovative University’ funding competition in 2018. The fact that we have now also been included in the second funding round is another major success for Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu and his outstanding team, this time in collaboration with the UKE, the HAW, and the TUHH as consortium partners. The Ligeti Center is dedicated to transferring artistic expertise into society and using artistic working methods as a starting point for social change. I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this second successful application. This new funding demonstrates once again that universities of the arts can develop their own contributions in the context of innovation and knowledge transfer. The fact that the name “Ligeti” was chosen as an acronym for such processes is the first creative achievement of this consortium. The approval of our proposal is encouraging. It comes at exactly the right moment. I am certain that this “Ligeti voice” will not go unheard in the future.”
Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu:
“The Ligeti Center will be a place where the arts, sciences, and technology come together to address socially relevant questions—a major milestone toward the university of the future.”
The center is named after one of the most famous composers of the 20th century, György Ligeti. Ligeti was a professor of composition at the HfMT Hamburg from 1973 to 1988 and took an interest in a broad spectrum of artistic, cultural, and scientific topics, which were also reflected in his compositions. He was friends with a large number of outstanding scholars. In the spirit of Ligeti, the transdisciplinary Ligeti Center—to be named after him—will now bring together various universities and fields of research in the area of knowledge transfer.
Contact:
Christine Preuschl
Director, Transfer Office
Hamburg University of Music and Drama
Harvestehuder Weg 12
20148 Hamburg
christine.preuschl@hfmt-hamburg.de
T +49-(0)151 73063038