As an application-oriented educational and research institution with an international focus and regional roots, Trier University of Applied Sciences helps its students develop of a future-oriented portfolio of skills including discipline-specific, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary aspects. For students’ qualification profile, this means establishing up-do-date field, personal and methodological skills, developing key competencies and being able to assume social responsibility.

The guidelines for applied research at UCB promote the thematic focus on questions relating to material cycles and sustainable development. We also attach great importance to the linking of research and teaching with the participation of students in research projects. The research area on the Birkenfeld environment campus is spacious, with an area of approximately 4,000 m².