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Managing tunnel accidents professionally
situations in a targeted and innovative way," emphasises AIT researcher Helmut Schrom-Feiertag from the Center for Technology Experience. In the MED1stMR project, led by the AIT Center for Technology Experience
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WU Award for Outstanding Research Achievements to Nico Pintar and Thomas Scherngell
Nico Pintar and Thomas Scherngell from the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy have received the Award for Outstanding Research Achievements for their article "The complex nature of regional knowledge [...] regional knowledge production. Knowledge creation is widely considered as the central driver for innovation, and accordingly, for creating competitive advantage. However, most measurement approaches have [...] to support policy makers in a smart specialisation context. Congratulations! In the spring, an Innovation Systems & Policy Insight on the topic was also produced. In a short video, the two authors
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Project CIVIC: Optimization of construction activities in Seestadt Aspern
The research project CIVIC (Construction In Vicinities: Innovative Co-creation), executed by an international consortium consisting of scientists and practitioners, aims to enhance planning and processing [...] acommodation for about 20,000 people and about 20,000 workplaces. In the context of the project CIVIC, innovative dynamic optimization approaches for efficient construction logistics planning are developed. The [...] resource efficiency and reducing traffic. [Translate to English:] Project manager Pamela Nolz, Center for Mobility Systems: “Cooperation and coordination enable the optimized planning of construction
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Climate change adaptation
The AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy supports together with the Center for Energy & the Center for Digital Safety & Security as well as the Umweltbundesamt the Climate and Energy [...] Energy Fund (KLIEN) in the development of action plans for research, technology and innovation in the infrastructure sectors of energy, water, transport and RTI policy recommendations. For this purpose, in
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NEFI: Innovation network for emission-free industry grows by four additional projects
The innovation network NEFI - New Energy for Industry has been granted funding for four new projects by the Climate and Energy Fund within the framework of the Energy Model Region with a total project [...] volume of 6.7 million euros. In the funded projects, the existing research priorities of NEFI - Innovation Fields will be supplemented by research and development of new technologies and potential applications [...] projects were submitted together with the research and industry partners. Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of Center for Energy and NEFI Network Coordinator: „We are pleased to continue the development of leading-edge
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AIT advances European technological development on next generation quantum communication systems
projects, the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology has scored highly with its latest proposal on the innovative European Quantum Technology Flagship project “UNIQORN – Affordable Quantum Communication for Everyone: [...] Commission within the first Flagship call of the Horizon 2020 framework. UNIQORN’s goal is to link innovative yet user-oriented research on the quantum frontier with near-future exploitation of early prototype [...] issues of the future. In the context of comprehensive and global networking and digitalisation, the Center for Digital Safety & Security is developing modern information and communication technologies (ICT)
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AIT advises German Federal Government on research and innovation policy
the annual report on research and innovation was handed over to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. One focus this year was the so-called "Agile Research and Innovation Policy" (R&I Policy). This contribution [...] contribution builds in significant parts on a background study led by the AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy and conducted jointly with the FU Berlin. The agility concept shows ways in which policy [...] prepare the ground for far-reaching processes of change," says study author and Head of AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy Matthias Weber. So far, however, a comprehensive and implementable concept
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AIT expert Winfried Neuhaus advisory member of EU Partnership for the promotion of non-animal methods
Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) has set itself the task of replacing animal experiments with new innovative methods and optimizing existing procedures in order to reduce animal experiments. The partners [...] purpose. Now, AIT expert Prof. Dr. Winfried Neuhaus, Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, is strengthening the EPAA's work as a member of the advisory Mirror [...] Winfried Neuhaus, AIT Principal Scientist of the Molecular Diagnostics Competence Unit at the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, was selected to strengthen the Mirror Group. The group includes researchers
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Susanne Meyer appointed to expert advisory board of the Smart City Vienna Steering Committee
Senior Expert Advisor Susanne Meyer from the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy was elected member of the external expert advisory board of the Smart City Steering Committee of the City of Vienna [...] managing directors and executives of the Vienna Business Agency, Wiener Stadtwerke, WWTF, Urban Innovation Vienna, Wiener Wohnen and Wien Energie
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Automated aerial vehicles support emergency forces
events and dynamically changing security situations pose enormous challenges for emergency forces. Innovative technical solutions are needed to optimize mission command, deploy resources efficiently and reduce [...] to better assess the situation and organize their operations efficiently. Cooperation: AIT Center for Vision, Automation & Control and PIDSO Pls register here to watch the longversion of the
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European Defence Agency Service Framework Contract awarded to AIT
Université Catholique de Louvain, Th European CBRN Center at Umea University, the Main School of Fire Service and the Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Technology Experience. The Consortium is backed [...] the CBRN sector (training centres, first responders, practitioners, PPE providers, research centers). The Center for Technology Experience can specifically contribute with its expertise in the area of training [...] four years to a consortium of six core partners at the forefront of science and research in CBRN innovation. The consortium, called CBRN EUniversities, consists of SAFE Security and Freedom for Europe,
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An Agenda for Transformative Research
Transformative research is oriented towards concrete societal problems and actively supports society in overcoming them. For transformative research to succeed, there needs to be active cooperation b
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Digitalisation coupled with agroecology for sustainable agriculture in Europe
Competence Unit Bioresources of the Center for Health and Bioresources. Also involved, from the AIT side, are the Center for Innovation Systems & Policy (ISP) and the Center for Digital Safety & Security [...] assets in digital agroecology. PATH2DEA is part of a whole innovation system. The project is part of a larger European "agroecology innovation system" and aims to strengthen links with existing and previous [...] infrastructures. The specific task of PATH2DEA in this agroecological innovation system is to create a framework for future research and innovation projects to enable the widespread adaptation of sustainable a
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EU WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN LOWER AUSTRIA
ecosystem. About EIT Food EIT Food was founded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology as Europe's leading innovation and technology initiative in the agri-food sector with the aim to make the [...] and trustworthy. EIT Food aims to build an inclusive and innovative community of diverse partners in the agri-food industry to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector across Europe. The AIT [...] take place online and on-site in the Ötscher Nature Park. In one day, top experts will present innovative approaches to make production more efficient while protecting biodiversity and the environment
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Digitalization and AI as game changers in the plastics industry
Development and Innovation Planning at EREMA. As an expert in the field of data-based and AI-supported analysis and control of complex dynamic systems, the scientist Amadeus Cosimo Lobe/ AIT Center for Vision [...] ely, companies and research institutions are addressing these challenges with a high degree of innovation. Through the strategic integration of digitalization and artificial intelligence technologies, [...] Systems FAKUMA Contact Amadeus Cosimo Lobe Research Engineer Complex Dynamical Systems AIT Center for Vision, Automation & Control amadeus.lobe@ait.ac.at +43 664 88256044
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AIT develops AI-controlled wind flow simulation for digital urban planning
Researchers of the City Intelligence Lab (CIL) at the AIT Center for Energy developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based simulation for wind flows. This enables wind factors to be determined in planning [...] and urban development projects. We can adapt these complex plans within seconds. The platform's innovative power is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and large amounts of data to create diverse planning [...] possible time", explains Nikolas Neubert, Head of Competence Unit Digital Resilient Cities at the Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. Wind currents important for microclimate
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New EU project LibrarIN aims to make European libraries fit for the future
This requires social innovation based on public value co-creation and a demand-driven design of library services.Under the leadership of Doris Schartinger, the AIT Center for Innovation Systems & Policy
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EU project REAP aims on new ways to understand breast cancer
breast cancer, which ultimately will save lives. The AIT Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics of the Center for Health & Bioresources, is part of the project with the development of two fundamental components [...] experts Stefan Schrittwieser and Rainer Hainberger, of the Molecular Diagnostics Competence Unit of the Center for Health & Bioresources, are leading these two focal points at AIT. Stefan Schrittwieser explains: [...] propagation properties of the light in the waveguides and can thus be detected optically." These innovative approaches will enable the realization of other radical imaging techniques in the future and find
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Im.Fluge: Urban Air Mobility revisited
and sustainable I-UAM use. The AIT Center for Technology Experience (Peter Fröhlich, Michael Gafert, Lukas Kröninger, Alexander Mirnig, Lennart Motnikar), the Center for Energy with the unit Digital Resilient [...] importance will be attached to air taxis, but also to freight transport using drones? In addition to innovative mobility solutions and ideas, it is important to reflect on the mobility of the future from the [...] The project was recently launched and presented at an FFG workshop on 19 January. It is about innovation and intermodular integration of urban air mobility through experience simulation. Low confidence
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Automation of air freight transport
w/detail/6954?cHash=d22809240cdbb0792603488d67aeaab8 Center for Vision, Automation & Control https://www.ait.ac.at/ueber-das-ait/center/center-for-vision-automation-control Research group Assistive [...] the research project "AUTILITY", experts from science and industry under the leadership of the AIT Center for Vision, Automation & Control have developed a carrier vehicle that independently performs [...] AUTILITY project was funded by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation, and Technology (BMK) as part of the "IKT of the Future" program and was managed by the Austrian