The University of Bayreuth is currently facing new challenges. If trust in science and its institutions is dwindling, then this affects us as a university in particular: phenomena such as fake news and filter bubbles, as well as new forms of knowledge reception, have an impact on us - as do digitalisation, internationalisation and the simultaneous rise of nationalism, urbanisation and demographic change. With the structural and development plan, we want to provide answers as to how the University of Bayreuth is meeting these challenges.
Even though the new BayHIG removes the legal obligation to draw up and update a university development plan, it is our commitment and our motivation to further develop the university and pursue our goals through the structure and development plan and its updates.
A coordinated process was initiated at the beginning of 2017 to formulate the new Structure & Development Plan and the new Mission Statement. In a major effort involving all member groups of the University of Bayreuth, taking into account all the different points of view, the great expertise on campus was condensed and transferred to the following pages.
The University would like to incorporate part of the goals formulated in the structural and development plan into the target agreement with the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts. This is intended to secure and increase the performance of the Bavarian universities.
