On September 18, 2024, the 4transfer annual conference took place at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig. In lectures and workshops, the participants approached the topic of knowledge and technology transfer from the perspectives of science, municipalities, art and politics.
How does citizen science work, how can citizens be successfully involved in research projects? This was the question addressed by the IHS project TransforMA: Last year, it provided scientific support for the citizen science project ‘Die Sprach-Checker’ (The Language Checkers) and derived a guideline for successful citizen science projects.
How will the use of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) and virtual production techniques in film and art change the way we tell stories? At the Film Innovation Lab in July 2024, start-ups and experts from the film industry were able to discuss this question with the public.
THALESruhr, the sustainability project at Bochum University of Applied Sciences, is reaching out to citizens in a converted electric van to promote transformation processes. The mobile field office invites the people of the Ruhr Metropolis to engage in dialogue at eye level and to discuss the topics of sustainability and change.
The German broadcast station NDR has recently published a long radio feature from its “Welt der Musik” series about the ligeti centre in Hamburg. LIGETI is a project of three Hamburg universities and the University Hospital Hamburg that is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Hamburg. It combines arts, science, health, and technology in a variety of ways.
The European Ecodesign Regulation came into force in July 2024. In the IHS project InCamS@BI, experts in commercial law are considering how the new regulations can be implemented in sensible and economically viable measures for companies.
Since autumn 2023, Berlin stakeholders have been meeting regularly to discuss innovation in water use. At an Innovation Work Retreat, an interdisciplinary group developed ideas to control the pathogen Legionella spec. This led to a joint project proposal.
The Sustainable Campus Café is a meeting point and dialogue space for innovative ideas on sustainability at the two universities in Jena. Students, staff and civil society work together here to develop solutions for sustainable campus life.
On 12 June 2024, Evelyne Pellé from the World Trade Centers (WTC) Metz-Saarbrücken visited the Industry 4.0 model factory in Dresden. During a tour of the factory, the partners of the Saxony5 project explained to the French visitor how they are introducing companies to the topic of Industry 4.0.
Science on the move - with the climate-friendly and mobile showroom of the Transferwerk, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences is taking its research from the T-HSN project directly to the people and demonstrating how practice-orientated science can actively contribute to solving social challenges.
