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TUD is also involved in important collaborative projects in water and climate research:
The Center for Advanced Water Research (CAWR) pools the expertise of the Helmholtz
Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and TU Dresden in order to work together in a
targeted, competent, and interdisciplinary manner on key challenges in the water sector
and to develop monitoring systems. TU Dresden is also involved in the Global Water and
Climate Adaption Center (ABCD-Center) joint project. Here, leading scientific institutions
on two continents analyze human adaptations to the consequences of climate change with
a special focus on the topic of water security and the transfer of findings into practice.

Mobility of the future is a central topic that is addressed in several projects at TU Dresden.
The Lighthouse Professorship and Chair of Transport Modelling and Simulation
is dedicated to the world of transportation, taking into account justice, fairness, environmental
impacts, and other ethically relevant effects of transport. At the Chair of Chemical Process
Engineering, synthetic fuels are being made more sustainable and efficient.
The Chair of Mobility System Planning is researching into indicators of urban sustainable
mobility in the EU project „Sustainable Urban Mobility Indicators“ (SUMI).
The "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences is the largest academic center
of excellence in the field of traffic sciences in Germany.

In order to make sustainability more measurable – especially at universities – TU Dresden
continues to coordinate the Germany-wide project UNISIMS (University Sustainability
Indicator Monitoring System) with 16 pilot universities. The aim of the project is to develop a
standardized web-based benchmarking system for assessing sustainability at universities.

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