In 2002, the Department of Mathematics established the Graduate School "Mathematics as a Key Technology". The Graduate School coordinates all international activities of the department, such as admission and counselling of foreign students, contacts to partner universities and semesters abroad for German students. Other activities include close collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, the administration of the department's doctoral programme and double degree programmes. All students of the Master's programmes and the doctoral programme of the department are members of the Graduate School. Head of the Graduate School is the Dean of the Department of Mathematics.