As part of the "International Research Experience @SRH" project, the research-oriented course RESpublica is implemented annually.
The "International Research Experience @SRH" project aims to motivate students to pursue a career in science and to promote international research cooperation. As part of this, new research-oriented study programmes are being created and the framework conditions for starting an academic career are being improved. Various scholarships also provide financial support for research-oriented stays abroad in the context of master's and doctoral theses or international research projects.
The project is funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) with funds from the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) as part of the "HAW. International".
In cooperation with the partner universities UMIHNO (Portugal) and UNIVA (Mexico), the research-oriented course RESpublica is also implemented annually as part of the project.
Interdisciplinary exchange in binational tandems
In the wake of complex societal challenges, the master's programs Architecture – Design for the Built Environment (DBE) and Water Technology offer a joint inter- and transdisciplinary research event series RESpublica.
RESpublica is designed to be interdisciplinary, follows annually changing focus topics, involves SRH's international partner universities with students and professors, and invites experts.
Linked to the focus topics, students work together in binational tandems on a project. They receive specialist input from the fields of architecture and water technology, research methodology, architecture education and environmental education.
RESpublica 2025: The Power of Landscape – Resource, Recovery, Retreat
This year's event offered lectures as an impulse and kick-off as well as topic-related lectures by professors from the international partner universities. The students' research topics were worked on in practical work phases in online and face-to-face workshops, and they received further support in implementing them through tutoring.
"RESpublica shows how interdisciplinary collaboration and international partnerships form the basis for creative and sustainable solutions that our world urgently needs. The integration of the Water Technology and Architecture programmes in RESpublica makes it easy to develop sustainable and innovative solutions that take into account both the built environment and natural water resources." – Professor Ulrike Gayh
"The early 20s of the 21st century are marked by numerous global crises of high density and intensity. [...] Some crises are man-made, others fated. We have to deal with all of them, regardless of their origin. [...] But in a global world, many things are directly related to many things. [...] RESpublica (lat. for a public concern) thus offers students a stage to place their questions, which are of immediate interest to them and seem elementary, in a research context and to develop them further." – Professor Marc Kirschbaum
Photo credits: Christine Bleier-Haunß.
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