University-wide specializations
The research concentrations give form to the University of Hohenheim’s core competences and define university-wide topics. They ensure the University’s research is responsible and oriented on the future, focusing on major social challenges.
Research clusters and specializations of the faculties
Research clusters
are associations of researchers of a faculty who want to develop existing or new specialization subjects. For each faculty, the President's Office promotes a research cluster for three years with initial funding.
For the Agricultural Sciences, this is:
Research focuses
In its current Structural and Development Plan, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences also defines the following research focuses:
- Global food security
- Climate change and scarcity of resources
- Biobased Value-Chain and Bioenergy
- Genome Diversity in Agriculture
Research foci
In the current Structural and Development Plan the Faculty of Natural Sciences defines its research foci:
- Biomolecular processes
- Diet-related illnesses
- Food processing
- Compartments of the earth system
Core research areas
In the current Structural and Development Plan the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences also includes the following defines its core research areas:
- Inequality and Economic policy analysis (INEPA)
- Transformation of Communication - Integration and Disintegration (TKID)
- Negotiation Research - Transformation, Technology, Media, and Costs (NegoTrans)
- Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Financing (INEF)
- Work, Digitalization, and Sustainability (WDS)