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In the summer of 2026, RWU piloted a new international teaching format for sustainable energy systems called “ELEVATE Energy.” 

Since 1987, one million students from Germany have studied or completed internships abroad with the support of ERASMUS. RWU Ravensburg-Weingarten University has been accredited as an ERASMUS institution since the 1990s.

The inauguration of the new dynamometer for the automotive engineering and mechatronics laboratory was also attended by specialists from the manufacturer MAHA SE & Co. KG came to the RWU Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences. 

Those who study Energy and Environmental Engineering at RWU have a wide range of professional and career opportunities. We visited graduates of the course at their places of work.

Once a year, the Soroptimist Club Ravensburg/Weingarten awards a scholarship for "Women in Technology Studies". In 2025, the award goes to RWU student Viola Hinz.

RWU offers a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering that combines studying with an apprenticeship. The first graduates of this new model are now entering the world of work. How has the idea of a two-track education worked out?

For the eleventh time, ^TOX® PRESSOTECHNIK is honoring an outstanding student achievement at RWU. The TOX-Applied-Engineering-Award 2023 goes to mechanical engineering graduate Paul Hecht.

Students immerse themselves in VR and work with and on a virtual electrolysis plant - a joint project.

RWU's former heating oil storage facility has been converted into a laboratory. Where there used to be space for 80,000 liters of oil, RWU's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is now working on additive manufacturing.

RWU now also offers an international, English-language study option in the field of Mechanical Egineering with "International Project Engineering".

Two mechanical engineering students have applied the tried and tested concept of the star wheel turner to today's requirements of organic farming.

Would an extended closure of the university buildings at Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (RWU) have saved more gas? An analysis at RWU shows: hardly.

Stifterverband and MWK fund innovative RWU project with €50,000 that enables students to research electrolysis plants in virtual reality (VR).