Participation of Prof. Schichler at the ceremony on the occasion of the signing of a contract for a long-term strategic partnership between the TU Darmstadt and Graz University of technology. The contract was signed in the Georg Christoph Lichtenberg House of TU Darmstadt by TU President Professor Hans Jürgen Prömel and the Rector of Graz University of Technology Professor Harald Kainz. Graz University of Technology is the third international strategic partner of the TU Darmstadt, further partners are the Tongji University Shanghai (China) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg (USA).