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DesignLab celebrates first birthday at ”SPIN2030 Science Festival”

March 27 – 28, 2024 | Fraunhofer IVI presents concepts and potentials of industrial design

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Exactly one year after its launch, the ”DesignLab for Applied Research“ – a cooperation between Fraunhofer and TU Dresden – had the opportunity to engage in an interesting dialogue with visitors from society, economy, industry and politics at the ”SPIN2030 Science Festival“. For this event, more than 50 scientific institutions from all over Saxony took over the five-storey building of the Museum of Science and Technology Dresden with the aim of making science tangible. The science festival is a part of the campaign ”SPIN 2030. Science State Saxony“, organized by the Saxon Ministry of Science, with the goal of highlighting the diversity, excellence, and attractiveness of Saxony as a research location.

The project team presented concepts and current developments in tomorrow´s agriculture, mobility and architecture and showed potentials of the integration of industrial designers in research projects.

Especially the vivid presentation of the projects Feldschwarm® and ALBACOPTER® sparked excitement and interest across all age groups and encouraged lively discussions about future solutions in automation on land and under water. 

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© Fraunhofer IVI
© Fraunhofer IVI

Cooperation intensifies with C-ITS Forum

February 27 - 28, 2024 | C-ITS Forum connects science, politics and economy

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From February 27 to 28 the C-ITS Forum was held under the motto “connected.safe.harmonized.” The goal of the expert event was to connect important actors in the field of cooperative intelligent transport systems to further increase cooperation and exchange. Around 150 mobility experts participated to collectively take on the challenge of translating C-ITS theory into action, delivering significant contributions from the fields of politics, economy, public transportation and infrastructure. Through various presentations, panel discussions and pitch sessions, the C-ITS Forum created a space for exchange of information and opinion. 

Dr. Thomas Otto, group manager of “Cognitive and Cooperating Systems” at Fraunhofer IVI, enriched the program with two presentations: “Today’s traffic management becomes tomorrow’s mobility management” and “Road to C-ITS: regulations, suggestions and architectures”.

The C-ITS Forum is an initiative of the Association of German Transport Companies, the Open Traffic Systems City Association, the mobility network ITS mobility, the Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main mbH, the Autobahn Company as well as Fraunhofer IVI.

KATECH and Fraunhofer IVI sign Memorandum of Understanding

February 19, 2024 | International cooperation creates new Opportunities in Research and Development

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On February 19 the Fraunhofer IVI signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korean Research Institute KATECH. Andreas Festag, team lead of the department “Connected Mobility and Infrastructure” in Ingolstadt, represented the IVI in Berlin.

The MoU focusses on joint projects regarding 5G based connection of autonomous mobility platforms for commercial vehicles. Those could open up new opportunities to strengthen competencies and activities together.

KATECH is a research institute established by the Korean government and other companies. It specialized in automotive parts. An important aim of KATECH is to increase autonomous driving understanding as well as public acceptance.  With the help of this societal readiness a social and legal foundation can be created, to establish new technologies such as self-driving shuttle services. 

MOBILITIES FOR EU successfully started

January 30 – February 1, 2024 | Fraunhofer IVI joins kick-off in Madrid

© Picture credits: Mercamadrid (Josetxu Miguel)
© Picture credits: Mercamadrid (Josetxu Miguel)
© Picture credits: Mercamadrid (Josetxu Miguel)

From January 30th to February 1st, the project MOBILITIES FOR EU kicked off to a great start. 29 partners from nine European countries are collaborating to create innovative mobility concepts within the next five years. This will help to achieve the European Green Deal aims for 2030.

The EU-funded project will pursue a holistic and user-centered approach to successfully create climate-neutral and smart cities. Therefore, passenger mobility and freight transport concepts will be implemented using cost-effective and feasible solutions. Dresden and Madrid will act as lead cities and get the opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of 27 innovative mobility solutions. These will be realized in eleven pilot projects, including vehicles as well as overarching infrastructure. Electrification, automation, and connectivity will be central topics of the project.

Fraunhofer IVI will provide assistance in the fields of C-ITS, Mobility Data Space and infrastructure assistance for CCAM. Moris Zahtila represented the departments of “Cognitive and Cooperating Systems” and “Mobility and Digital Services” at the kick-off in Madrid. 

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