Our mission statement shows what we stand for and what guides us. It formulates our standards for teaching, research, collaboration and social commitment. It specifies the values and goals to which we are committed. These do not remain abstract: with our Code of Conduct, we give them a concrete, binding form in everyday life. It describes how we take responsibility, work together and shape our university together.
htw saar is an application-oriented university. Its four faculties are united by a common interest in knowledge. Teaching, studies, continuing education and research focus on scientific knowledge and methods as well as the scientifically based development and implementation of skills and abilities that enable the successful management of complex systems and changes. In teaching and research, the university promotes the necessary inter-faculty and interdisciplinary commitment, cooperation beyond the university as well as inter- and multidisciplinary approaches and concepts. To this end, the htw saar is establishing fields of competence in which the central topics of the university are brought together across disciplines and faculties in dialog with the region in teaching, studies, continuing education and research, as well as holistically bundled, deepened, profiled and further developed based on needs and knowledge. In the fields of competence, teaching and research as well as joint plans and projects with partners from science, business, society and politics are mutually interrelated.
Permanently established cross-border university structures and an international university culture form the basis for transnationality at the university. The immediate proximity to and traditionally intensive cooperation with France stand for this. The htw saar is an attractive place for teaching, studying, further education and research for students in Germany and abroad. Together with strong international partners, the university offers its services in German, French and/or English in a target group-oriented manner. In dialog with the region, htw saar develops and maintains an attractive and high-quality cross-border range of services together with partners from Germany and abroad. It strengthens regional development by focusing on the conception and implementation of transnational structures for science, innovation and education in the area of internationalization, which contribute to solving economic and social challenges in the region. htw saar is an active and visible part of the international university community. It contributes its approaches and experience as a regionally anchored and application-oriented university to the global internationalization process of universities.
htw saar values the personality of its students and employees. It acts in a socially responsible manner with a view to the economic and social challenges of the future in its sphere of influence. The university provides academic qualifications and career-oriented higher education and enables education in a comprehensive sense. To this end, it promotes the development of social skills as well as the assumption of responsibility, value- and ethics-based decision-making and action and the social commitment of all university members. It sees intercultural education as a basic competence in the immigration society and in the context of transnational cooperation. The quality of studies and teaching is based on best practice solutions in higher education. Students are active partners in the learning process. The htw saar is a university for lifelong learning. It is open to the diversity of educational paths and stands for a permeable higher education system. It creates the conditions for equal and barrier-free access to all its courses and activities. Digital learning environments support the opening of the university. Its educational concept includes a program of academic continuing education geared towards regional needs, which takes into account the interests and demand of professionals, managers and experts.
htw saar is an application-oriented university with a strong research focus. This requires a research profile with nationally and internationally visible results. Research at the university creates added value and leads the way in knowledge, technology, marketing and design expertise in solving future challenges through the targeted use of the university's knowledge potential for business, society and politics. Research at htw saar is based on long-term cooperation with partners from industry, institutions and the public sector. Research partnerships with htw saar are based on trust, a developed and professional culture of cooperation and mutual learning. The research groups at htw saar are embedded in national and international networks based on institutional and/or personal forms of cooperation. In order to utilize the synergy effects of basic research and application-oriented research, htw saar works closely with universities and non-university research institutions on an institutional level. htw saar integrates its research into teaching, studies and continuing education. Solution orientation and reflexivity in research enrich the quality of the university's application-oriented educational offerings.
The degree programs at htw saar train talented individuals, experts and managers for current and future professional fields in the region. The htw saar is the engineering forge of the Saarland. It also takes into account the growth of the service sector and the increasing demand for academically trained specialists in education, business, social work and care. The university focuses on the needs of the region and develops its study and further education programs accordingly based on its strengths in on-site study. htw saar is firmly anchored in the region. It develops and maintains partnerships with companies and institutions in the region and is an active partner in clusters and platforms. htw saar is a key player in innovation-driven change. With scientifically sound ideas, impulses, concepts, solutions, empirical analyses and reflections, the university strengthens the region's competitiveness and thus the emergence of new value chains. In teaching, studies, further education and research, it specifically addresses topics and challenges that are relevant to technological, economic and social innovation and structural change in the Greater Region. It supports the sustainability of business models of small and medium-sized enterprises and overcoming the challenges of social and demographic change. The htw saar is present as a "university in the city" and its activities are visible there. Many university activities on campus and university projects have a positive impact on urban development in the district and in the city and contribute to shaping it.
The Code of Conduct contains our guidelines for respectful and appreciative interaction - with each other, in our public image and in our use of resources. It serves all members of the university as a guide and decision-making aid in everyday life. We all share responsibility for its implementation at all levels.
The Code of Conduct comprises the guidelines of htw saar for appreciative and respectful interaction with one another, in external representation and in dealing with resources. It serves as an orientation and decision-making guideline on how to act in certain situations. Compliance with this voluntary commitment is supported by the members of htw saar at all hierarchical levels.
Code of Conduct
This Code of Conduct lays down the guidelines of the University of Applied Sciences (htw saar) regarding the respectful and considerate treatment of one another, in dealings with the outside world, and in the management of resources. The Code of Conduct provides guidance and decision-making guidelines on how to act in specific situations. Everyone at the htw saar, at all levels of the hierarchy, is committed to upholding this self-commitment. In the event of conflict, the contact points listed in the appendix can provide help in finding a solution.
Code of Conduct