Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences

Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
Hochschule Rhein-Waal
Logo of the university
Logo of the university
Type Public
Established 2009 (2009)
President Dr. Heide Naderer
Academic staff
 251
Students 7300 (2017/18)
Location Kleve and Kamp-Lintfort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Website www.hochschule-rhein-waal.de/en

Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Rhein-Waal) or HSRW, is a German public university with international orientation that opened for the winter semester of 2009/10. Its two campuses are located in the cities of Kleve and in Kamp-Lintfort.[1] The university is named after the German river Rhine and Dutch river Waal. As of 2018, it offers a variety of both English- and German-languaged study programmes through four faculties: Faculty of Technology & Bionics, Faculty of Life Sciences, Faculty of Society and Economics and Faculty of Communication and Environment.

History

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia organized a competition for the creation of three new Universities on 28 May 2008. The applicants were Kleve and the "We-4"-cities (Kamp-Lintfort, Moers, Neukirchen and Rheinberg), but the concept of separate universities was discarded. Instead, in November 2008, the responsibility was assigned jointly to the two competing candidates Kleve and Kamp-Lintfort, to establish a bipolar university. In April 2009, Prof. Dr. Marie-Louise Klotz was appointed President and Prof. Dr. Martin Goch Vice President of the university. The official founding date of the University was 1 May 2009.

In 2015, founding president Prof. Dr. Marie Klotz was replaced by Dr. Heide Naderer.


References

  1. ↑ "Information for prospective students". HSRW. Retrieved July 29, 2017.

Coordinates: 51°47′37″N 6°08′45″E / 51.7937°N 6.1458°E / 51.7937; 6.1458

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