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Dresden - Education and science

Dresden is home to a number of renowned universities:

• Dresden University of Technology with almost 35.000 students (2004), founded in 1828, is one of the oldest and largest technical universities in Germany.
• The University of Applied Sciences Dresden, founded in 1992, with 5.000 students (2005).
• The Dresden Academy of Art, founded in 1764, known for its former professors and artists like Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Canaletto or Caspar David Friedrich.
• The Palucca School of Dance, founded by Gret Palucca in 1925.
• University of Music - Carl Maria von Weber, founded in 1856.
• Other universities include the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik, a school specializing on church music, the Evangelische Hochschule fuer Sozial Arbeit, the Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft and the Offizierschule des Heeres. The Dresden International University is a private foundation, postgradual, university, founded few years ago in cooperation with the Dresden University of Technology; most students there have to prove some years of successful practise. The Palucca Dance School is the only college of Fine Arts in Germany devoted exclusively to the academic study of dance.

Moreover, Dresden hosts many world-class research institutes:

• Fraunhofer Society: Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Sintered Materials IKTS, Fraunhofer Institute for Electron and Plasma Technology FEP, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS, Fraunhofer Center Nanoelectronic Technologies CNT, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, Fraunhofer Applications Center for Processing Machinery and Packaging Technology AVV, Fraunhofer Institute for Transport and Infrastructure Systems IVI as well as branches of other Fraunhofer Institutes headquartered elsewhere in Germany.

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids and MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems.
• Leibniz Gemeinschaft: IÖR - Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, IPF - Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, IFW - Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research and FZR - Research Centre Rossendorf.

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