Services: Library system consisting of university library and local specialised libraries; Focus on Engineering and Natural Sciences; high proportion of electronic media (books, journals, databases); Extensive courses and advisory programmes are available on academic resources (research) and work tools (literature management programmes); Patent and standards centre with specific programmes (search services); Extensive academic publishing services (Institute of the RWTH Aachen University, open access); Bibliometric services; Training and advisory services for research data management.
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There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, German as a Foreign Language, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Turkish, Dutch, Korean
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The university offers its own sports programme. The students of the RWTH Aachen may participate in all sports programmes of the NRW institutions of higher education. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. University sports in Aachen offers about 2,700 instructed courses in over 100 sports and 10 events a year; illuminated running track, 1,060 m in length; 3 cage soccer artificial turf fields with flood lighting; Outdoor fitness facility; multi-purpose beach sports facility, 6 courts; Tennis facility, 6 courts; University fitness centre, with 65 endurance machines and 140 strength-training stations distributed across 1,050 m²; own water sports centre; RWTH Aachen University and University of Applied Sciences active break: 60 courses for 400 employees, a wide range of health-oriented courses, numerous European partnerships.
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