The Project House was established in 2019 by the Executive Board under then-President Prof. Dr. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla and subsequently staffed with a core team focused on the areas of teaching and innovation. The Project House builds its work on this foundation of core staff—whose numbers have remained unchanged since 2020. This step brought together previously separate project groups and their projects (e.g., the BMBF-funded teach4TU initiative of the Quality Pact for Teaching) under a single organisational umbrella.
To fulfill our mission as effectively as possible, we actively and successfully pursue out grants and special funding. At present, two-thirds of our work and projects are funded by competitively awarded third-party and special funds.
A substantial share of the university’s own funds is also regularly evaluated and reapplied for in the relevant committees, for example in the area of study quality funding. As in all central units of the university in the area of teaching, these internal funds have been declining in recent years due to decreasing overall resources.
Thanks to steadily increasing and repeatedly secured external funding and the creation of corresponding project positions, our teams currently consist of ~40 staff members 2021: 30).
In 2025, we are again pleased to report successful grant applications, including the approval of 8 million euros—and up to 12 million euros pending a positive evaluation—from the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education for the development of new degree program models over the next 4–6 years. A large portion of these funds will go directly to departments and other organizational units at TU Braunschweig, for example, to develop new pilot degree programs for the “Explorer Master,” TU Braunschweig’s future Research Master’s program.
TU Braunschweig
Projekthaus
Mittelweg 7
38106 Braunschweig
