Form a Partnership with TU Graz

Choose the best form of partnership for your business from among the following:

• Talent Scholarship Programme TU Graz High Potentials
• Offer a scholarship for a study abroad
• Career service package:
  Attract young talents
• Sponsor a lecture hall or seminar room:
  Support educational infrastructure and position your own company in the forefront
• Endowed Professorship:
  Support research in cutting-edge subject areas
• Strategic Partnerships:
  Become part of the TU Graz strategy

Talent Scholarship Programme
TU Graz High Potentials

TU Graz High Potentials (formerly TU Graz 100) is a scholarship programme in which companies provide financial support to young talents from Austria and abroad in the form of scholarships.

Both businesses and science need talented, innovative and committed young people. The programme is therefore a joint investment by companies and Graz University of Technology in the future of Austria as a centre of business and innovation.

Under the title ‘TU Graz 100’, around 200 talented students have already been supported on their path thanks to the great cooperation with our partner companies. TU Graz is now in the process of further developing the programme. As part of this, ‘TU Graz 100’ has become ‘TU Graz High Potentials’.

Your advantages as a partner company:

• Visibility for your company and direct contact with the best minds
• TU Graz takes care of the marketing and administration for the programme, such as advertising the scholarships nationally and internationally, communication, expert judging in the selection of the best candidates, and financial processing.
• The company makes the final selection of scholarship holders.
• Two networking events with scholarship holder and corporate partners take place each year.
• In the first year: free membership in the Forum Technology and Society for scholarship donors

Key data on funding:

• Target group: Prospective national and international Bachelor's and Master's students with excellent academic records, high motivation and commitment.
• Subject areas: All technical and scientific subjects offered at TU Graz.
• Duration of funding: max. 24 months (subject to proof of academic success by the scholarship holders).
• Bachelor's scholarship: € 4,400 per academic year
• Master's scholarship: € 8,800 per academic year

The company packages start with the funding of two students in selected fields of study for a period of two years. An overhead fee covers the entire application and administration of the programme as well as other services.

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By financially supporting scholarships for a study abroad, you can foster the best students of certain degree programmes (defined by yourself) by giving them the possibility to study at international guest universities with an enhanced scholarship. In that way, you get in touch with the best students while simultaneously boosting the internationalisation of TU Graz.

• Fund a scholarship for the study abroad that is named after your company and announced in the autumn of each year
• Select the best candidates in the selected degree programmes
• Take the opportunity to get in touch with individual scholarship winners
• Make your company visible at the annual Scholarship Winner Day

Amount of support: € 3000 and more for one academic year

Applicable to institutional members of alumniTUGraz 1887 association (in the association section Forum Technology and Society), Membership fee € 4,200 per year

Sponsoring a lecture hall or seminar room will enable you to place your company in the academic landscape of TU Graz, directly on campus! Besides boosting your company’s visibility to attract potential employees, you are directly present at the teaching hub as well as on the main web platform career.tugraz.at. At the same time, you help TU Graz to provide students with the best possible infrastructure. A lecture hall or seminar room sponsorship includes:

• naming the jointly selected space after your company in all media associated with TU Graz
• your company’s name on the doorplate at the entrance, and an additional eDoor for lecture halls (screen, e.g. for a company video)
• possibility of staging one event per year in your room or hall
• reduction of stand costs at the annual recruiting fair TECONOMY Graz (by € 500)
• publishing one editorial per year in our career newsletter or in the Career Info-Service’s social media
• all elements of our career service package (please see info box Career Service Package) – fixed amount of free job ads, company presence on TU Graz’s websites, career profiles, Welcome Days brochure...

Price per year (lecture halls for a minimum of 5 years; seminar rooms for at least 3 years): from € 8,500.00 per annum (excluding 20% VAT)

This price is applicable to institutional members of alumniTUGraz 1887 association (in the association section Forum Technology and Society), Membership fee € 4,200 per year.

Price for non-members upon request and individual agreement.

Endowed professorships support research in cutting-edge subject areas with high societal relevance. These can be created as part of a strategic partnership, but also can be independent. Possibilities include:

• Endowed Professorship with 1 to 3 assistants, support and Infrastructure
  Support amount (approximate value): € 500,000 per year
• Endowed Professorship
  Support amount (approximate value): € 250,000 per year
• Endowed Tenure Track Professorship, Postdoc position
  Support amount (approximate value): € 120,000 per year

Horst BISCHOF
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. 
Rector
rektornoSpam@tugraz.at

Andrea HÖGLINGER
Mag.
Vice Rector for Research
andrea.hoeglinger@tugraz.at