Research Training Groups

• Nano- and Biotechnologies for Packaging of Electronic Systems (GRK 1401)
  Speaker Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerald Gerlach, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Mass, Spectrum, Symmetry: Particle Physics in the Era of the Large Hadron Collider (GRK 1504) 
  Berlin, Dresden, Zeuthen
  Speaker for Dresden: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Kobel, Faculty of Science
• Graduate school PoreNet: Nonmetallic porous structures for physical-chemical functions PoreNet (GRK 1375)
  Bremen, Dresden
  Speaker for Dresden: Prof. Stefan Odenbach,  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Itinerant magnetism and superconductivity in intermetallic compounds (GRK 1621)
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hans-Henning Klauß, Faculty of Science
• QuantLA -Quantitative Logics and Automata (GRK 1763)
  Dresden, Leipzig
  Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz Baader, Faculty of Computer Science
  (Start: 01.10.2012)

Integrated Research Training groups

• "Matrixengineering" 
  Speaker in Dresden: Prof. Dieter Scharnweber, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Textile-Reinforced Composite Components for Function-Integrating Multi-Material Design in Complex Lightweight Applications 
  Speaker: Prof. Volker Ulbricht, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Institutional Orders, Script and Symbols/ Ordres institutionnels, écrits et symboles (International Graduate College 625)
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Gerd Schwerhoff, Faculty of Philosophy
• Volition: Integrated Research Training Unit (VIRTU)
  Coordination: Prof. Dr. Alexander Strobel and Prof. Dr. Clemens Kirschbaum, Faculty of Science, Psychology

Endowed Graduate Colleges

• Aspects of future satellite reconnaissance missions 
  Graduate College of EADS SPACE 
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. techn. Klaus Janschek, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• European Graduate School in Addiction Research 
  VolkswagenFoundation 
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Gerhard Bühringer, Faculty of Science
• Helmholtz Graduate School "HIGRADE" 
  Helmholtz Association
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Krebs, Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences
• Boysen-TU-Dresden-Research Training Group 
  joint collaboration Friedrich und Elisabeth Boysen-Stiftung with TU Dresden
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Wolfgang Donsbach (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Antonio Hurtado (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)
• International Helmholtz Research School for Nanoelectronic Networks (IHRS NANONET)  
  initiative of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR) in a joint collaboration with TU Dresden, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing (IZFP), and the Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory (NaMLab) gGmbH
  Speaker: Dr. Artur Erbe (HZDR), Debuty Speaker: Prof. Dr. Cuniberti, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• "International Max Planck Research School for Dynamical Processes in Atoms, Molecules and Solids" 
   Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jan M. Rost, Faculty of Science