Robert Schmidt Institute (RSI)

Those with the exciting projects.
The RSI has been bundling interdisciplinary programmes for students, graduates and employees of Wismar University of Applied Sciences since 2011. Therefore we have one foot in science and the other in business.

Our face on campus
Our interdisciplinary makerspace "StartUpYard" invites you to try things out, grow together and realise ideas.

Our three service divisions

Career

Career

Everything you need for your professional career: from application counselling, mentoring, company contacts for attractive internships, theses and jobs to financing your studies with the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship and guidance when you have doubts about your studies.
International

International

We support educational and research collaborations with partners worldwide – from the application process to project management. We advise local internationals on living and working in Germany and network them in buddy tandems.
Idea and founding

Idea and founding

We push ideas: in individual consultations, in skills-promoting seminars, in ideas contests, in interdisciplinary student teams and when tinkering in our "StartUpYard" makerspace.

Events

Events

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Who is Robert Schmidt?

Founder with great visions
Wismar University of Applied Sciences owes its entrepreneurial approach to teaching not least to the convictions of its founder Robert Schmidt (*2 March 1850, †28 July 1928). As an energetic school reformer, he was a risk-taking entrepreneur: innovative and creative. For him, the totality of technology and art, the linking of science, business and urban development as well as cultural and social responsibility were essential in education.
He followed his vision of a practice-orientated, interdisciplinary educational institution and founded the Wismar Engineering Academy in 1908. He invested his entire fortune, as well as that of his wife and sister-in-law, in the establishment and operation of the academy.