Knowledge exchange projects

The game is to be located in the area of society/knowledge exchange: All details are scientifically valid researched and an information booklet about the time a thousand years ago is included. The aim of the project is to implement modifications to the fully tested and produced prototype for the Toy...

Board Game "By Order of the Caliph"

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The focus of this project is the development of therapeutic transfer RNAs (tRNAs) for gene therapy and correction of genetic mutation-related diseases. The nucleotide sequence of the therapeutic tRNAs is to be supplemented with modified nucleotides in order to make them immunovascular.

Testing and adaptation of innovative flat jet technology

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OpenStreetPay is a concept to enable digital donations to and payments for homeless people. The aim of the funding is to test the process design with an extensive test design and to prepare the idea for market launch and cooperation with a financial service provider.

Proof of Concept for the OpenStreetPay project

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Development of RNA-based therapeutics

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The project goal is to create prototype software to apply so-called tangles as a proof-of-concept. Traditional clustering aims to identify groups of objects with similar properties. Tangles work the other way around: they identify types of properties that frequently occur together in the objects...

Identification of types through the tangle theory

Exemplarische REM-Aufnahmen der PSS-Partikel

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In this project, the researchers want to investigate the relationship between the support material properties and the performance of oligonucleotide solid-phase synthesis. Due to their flexibility, macroporous polymer resins, "polymer solid support" (PSS), are particularly suitable as innovative...

Oligonucleotide solid-phase synthesis with PSS support

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Microalgae are attracting more and more attention and use as a source of renewable raw materials. The aim of the AlgaeFibre project is to identify microalgae that allow the production of plant fibres with special properties. In pilot experiments, the sustainable extraction of the resource microalgae...

AlgaeFibre

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Social crises exacerbate problems such as lack of exercise among children and young people. The project "Departure into the Unknown - Teachers Activate Pupils" (AUFTAKT) aims to encourage pupils to engage in independent, creative sports activities. The aim is to develop a short training course for...

Teachers activate pupils (AUFTAKT)

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Successful adaptation to crisis requires timely and accessible information, which enables informed decision making in complex and uncertain environments. By setting up an innovative information system through mobile phone SMS the project aims to deliver timely weather and technological information...

Climate adaptation by innovative information system

Junge schaut auf Laptop beim Homeschooling

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In inclusive schools, children and young people with and without visual impairments and blindness should learn together. The project will explore the opportunities and limitations of digital tools for counselling and supporting pupils with visual impairments and blindness.

Di@BU – Digital support in special needs education

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Transferfonds 2021 & Calls for Transfer 2021

Plastic nanochips for DNA analysis for cancer monitoring

In this project, the researchers will work towards scalability, and show the proof of concept of the technology and nano-devices for obtaining the methilation profiles of DNA molecules as an early indication of methastasis or hidden resistance to treatment in collaboration with the UKE, and validate...

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The transfer project builds on the results of a BMBF project. Owners of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are difficult to reach with existing health promotion measures. The researchers will therefore examine the effectiveness and impact factors of online coaching in comparison to blended coaching.

Online couple coaching for health promotion

Das Bild zeigt eine die Nutzeroberfläche eines 360°-Video-Begehung eines Spieplatzes

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Playgrounds and schoolyards are important places for movement, playing together and social inclusion. The project is developing a virtual learning environment to sensitise playground and schoolyard designers, such as architects, to barrier-free and inclusive playgrounds. In the long term, the aim is...

#playgroundthreesixty – Inclusive playgrounds

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Sustainable mobility offers for commuters are in demand. Many companies support their employees in getting to work in a climate-friendly way. The project explores how commuting through Corona is changing, what new services are being used, and what this means for the future.

(Post-)Pandemic Commuting

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Professional groups such as performing artists are particularly affected by the Corona pandemic. This is where the project comes in. The WIESE eG is concerned with setting up rehearsal spaces and being an open house for the urban community. Strategies, resources and support with which the WIESE eG...

With the WIESE out of the crisis

Eine lachende Frau zeigt auf eine Notiz, die an einer Pinnwand hängt

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For the Schuppenküche, everyday social life is THE starting point for university and museum research learning. The Schuppenküche promotes sustainable, innovative knowledge exchange between museum, university and harbour city society. Knowledge exchange is explored and communicated with notebook...

Research and Outreach Format SCHUPPENKÜCHE

Eine Person sitzt einsam zu Hause auf der Couch

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Surveys of vulnerable groups show on the one hand that e.g. senior citizens feel left behind by digital offers such as Zoom sport, but on the other hand that they are also enthusiastic about digital educational formats during the pandemic. By processing survey results, the project aims to develop...

So lonely? Loneliness and isolation despite digitalisation

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The digital encoding of Arabic characters is generally spoken, ergo also on the internet, a big mess. Simple internet searches in Arabic are extremely random and slightly more complex searches tend to be meaningless. In cooperation with the company decotype, an algorithm has been developed at UHH...

Yakabikaj – digital coding of Arabic characters

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Using fluidic devices, with micro- and nano-channels of only 12 nm x 12 nm, fundamental phenomena are studied in confined spaces such as zepto litres. For example, the formation of bilayers, fluid mixing, filling processes and the flow of biomolecules. The aim of the project is to build a prototype...

Flow-Through Atomic Layer Deposition – Prototyp construction

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The INNERMONKEY app is the first digital self-esteem enhancement therapy that can be prescribed. With exercises prepared for self-application, it works on the strength of mental resilience and improves well-being. The effectiveness and usability of the app is being validated by the UHH and the UKE.

InnerMonkey Self-Esteem App

Drei Bilder eines Radwegs in der Stadt. Auf dem mittigen fährt eine Person Rad, auf dem rechten einen E-Roller

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Lack of safety is one of the main reasons for not using a bicycle in everyday life. In view of the traffic turnaround, cities are being redesigned to be cycle-friendly. The aim of the project is to use the example of Hamburg to find out how new cycling routes are accepted and how they are perceived...

New cycling routes in practice

Gewächshaus mit Plastikplanen (von innen betrachtet)

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The agricultural sector is responsible for a global share of about 2%, i.e. more than 7 million t of plastic consumption per year. Transparent films are used e.g. in tunnel covers, greenhouses or for mulching. The project develops an upcycling solution for agricultural plastic waste.

Upcycling agricultural plastic waste

Photovoltaikanlage Stromflussschemazeichnung

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The Hamburg observatory wants to become more sustainable and contribute to the energy transition. To this end, it is implementing a pilot project in which solar energy is converted into hydrogen on its own premises and stored. This will initially supply the Montessori School in Hamburg, which is...

Technology transfer: Energy with hydrogen

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The project is aimed at multipliers in historical-political education who can be informed and instructed for their own future crowdsourcing activities via a crowdsourcing manual that is to be newly created. The crowdsourcing manual will be published in spring 2022 as an e-book by the publishing...

Crowdsourcing as a practice of building archives

Screenshot der Website arbeitskreis-familiengutachten.de

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With the "Gutachten-TÜV", the quality of expert opinions in family court decisions is examined, evaluated and improved. On the basis of the then possible more objective assessment of the expert opinions, the courts can place their judgement on a different basis. In addition, it should be easier to...

Improve the quality of family court reports

Schwarz-weiß Bild; Hand an Fensterscheibe gelegt

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In 2017, Germany acceded to the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention). The project examines the occurrence of domestic violence in the Hamburg area in order to then improve the care of affected victims in...

Hamburg Model for Identifying Domestic Violence

Zwei kindlich gezeichnete gelbe Monster vor rotem Hintergrund

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In the Tutoring for All project, a prototype of a tutoring programme to promote reading among primary school children is being developed. It is based on the tried and tested Tutoring with the Lightning Squad programme of the US Success for All Foundation for use in German. The aim is to use the...

Tutoring for All – Project for the promotion of children's language skills

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The focus of the project is on community-based business models in the field of entrepreneurship. The aim is to increase the exchange between entrepreneurs and students and to transfer knowledge on sustainable entrepreneurship and business models on both sides and to support start-up activities.

ColLab@UHH – Laboratory for innovative entrepreneurship

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The project will shed light on Hamburg's role in the illegal wildlife trade and develop methods to deal with species protection crime. Against the background of the Corona pandemic, the connection between the spread of viral diseases such as Covid-19, wildlife trade and the destruction of...

Wildlife - On the zoology of human infections

Hand hält Smartphone auf dem mit der „Augmented Science“-App ein Bild des Coronavirus angezeigt wird. Rechts daneben ein Bild des Coronavirus vor schwarzem Hintergrund.

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The exchange of data and research results is increasingly shifting to virtual spaces. However, an analogue understanding often prevails in the publication of data, whereby a publication of rigid data sets no longer seems contemporary. With the help of the "augmented science" app, pictures and images...

Sustainable digital science communication

Großes beladenes Containerschiff am Burchardkai Terminal Hamburg

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The project examines the strong fluctuations in the capacity demand for container ships in the Asia-Europe trade during the Corona pandemic. The fluctuations particularly affect Hamburg's economy with the many shipping companies based here. The study results provide recommendations for policy makers...

Impact on container shipping

Ein sich mit medizinischer Maske küssendes Paar steht vor Streetart (Mona-Lisa mit Mund-Nasen-Schutz und Handschuhen)

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In the "coronarchiv", citizens report on their everyday experiences during the pandemic and share corresponding pictures, short texts and videos. The project has now made the "coronarchiv" accessible to Spanish and Portuguese-speaking users, e.g. from Ecuador, and facilitates the possibility of...

Everyday Worlds during Corona in the Americas

Weißer Sarg mit Blumengesteck wird getragen

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The project collected questions and suggestions for improvement from funeral homes and parishes. It was investigated whether one can be infected with the coronavirus by touching COVID-19 dead bodies, their body bags or coffins. The results are reassuring, there seems to be no risk of infection from...

The safe handling of COVID-19 deceased persons

Prof. Schreyögg vom HCHE und Katharina Fegebank, zweite Bürgermeisterin der Stadt Hamburg

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The representative study measures the attitudes, concerns and expectations of people in Europe in the Corona pandemic. Every two months, 7,000 Europeans from seven countries are asked about 100 individual questions. The series of events "HCHE Research Results live" and "HCHE Research Seminar"...

European Covid Survey (ECOS)

Frau steht vor Schreibtisch mit PC und blickt auf ein Handy in ihren Händen

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The coronavirus crisis is forcing many to rethink professional concepts and business models. In the field of continuing education, coaches and trainers face didactic questions under digital conditions, as well as questions about the accessibility of the desired target group. The research project...

Adult education in and after the Corona crisis

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The Port of Hamburg is a gateway to the unintentional (and intentional) import of alien species, which are introduced on or off ships, for example. The new web portal presents alien species such as the amberjack, the Asian hornet or the black-mouthed goby. Citizens are invited to report potential...

Web portal for alien species in Hamburg

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Deeper crises like the Corona pandemic change living conditions and thus often human needs. For example, a need for security increases. Measuring these shifts is a challenge. The project explores a suitable psychometric survey and analyses online search behaviour.

Corona impacts change basic needs

Virtuelles Meeting bei dem 15 Teilnehmende in Kacheln zu sehen sind

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Due to the pandemic, many companies are facing radical challenges as they have to adapt their business model to the "new normal". In the IT Entrepreneurship (ITE) learning workshop of the Hamburg Research Center for Information Systems, students designed and evaluated new digital business models...

App development at IT entrepreneurship competition

Frau frischt zuhause über Online-Quizze das eigene Statistik-Wissen auf

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mcEmpirics complements traditional teaching and learning formats even beyond the pandemic. For the subfield of econometrics in economics, the e-learning platform offers more than 800 quiz questions with detailed explanations, literature references and links to YouTube tutorials. The exercises help...

mc-Empirics: E-Learning software for Statistik

Person nimmt an einem virtuellen Meeting teil

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Since the pandemic, many employees no longer work in the office but from home. Meetings therefore take place virtually much more often. The project investigates the changed collaboration. Results as well as further research in the area of home office, virtual teams and in-house innovation are made...

Meeting up! Digital collaboration during and after Corona

Person benutzt VR. Ein Pfeil am Boden zeichnet eine weite Kurve (virtual path), ein anderer eine enge Kurve (real path).

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In virtual reality, real and virtual movements rarely coincide and the range of motion is still severely limited. The new "redirected walking" technology makes it possible to walk naturally through virtual worlds of any size with a comparatively small real space requirement. The project is based on...

Evaluation of virtual reality redirection technologies

Ein Virus ist im Hintergrund symbolisch dargestellt, darüber in weißer Schrift vor rotem Hintergrund "WEBSEITE LÄDT..." und ein etwas mehr als die Hälfte geladener Ladebalken

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