Prof. Dr. Martin Haimerl, during his presentation at the Communication Circle
KTUR² project partners meet in Strasbourg to exchange ideas
How can a supraregional and highly visible innovation ecosystem be established in the Upper Rhine region on a long-term basis? This is one of the core questions of the collaborative project Internal link opens in the same window:Knowledge Transfer Upper Rhine 2 (KTUR² - boosting trinational innovation). Furtwangen University is participating in the project alongside eleven other academic partners and additional industrial partners along the Upper Rhine. Halfway through the KTUR² project term, a consortium meeting of the project participants took place in Strasbourg.
“We reviewed the results to date and set the course for the remainder of the project and beyond,” reports Internal link opens in the same window:Prof. Dr. Martin Haimerl, project leader on the HFU side.
During the meeting, interim results were presented from the various pillars of the project; research and development collaborations, continuing education and knowledge transfer, entrepreneurship/start-ups and cross-border financing. “Furtwangen University is particularly involved in KTUR² in the area of start-up support also providing companies with access to innovations, technologies and infrastructure from research units,” explains Haimerl. In addition, Furtwangen University is leading the “Best Practices” work package, which focuses on how to successfully design and evaluate knowledge transfer activities. “This lays the groundwork for permanently establishing the KTUR network as an innovation ecosystem in the Upper Rhine region,” Haimerl continued.
As part of a “Communication Circle” during the meeting, best practices and strategies for improving visibility and communication were discussed. Five KTUR² project partners presented concrete examples of their knowledge transfer activities in conjunction with appropriate communication strategies. The exchange highlighted how important the overarching visibility of these activities is and the added value that individual universities gain as a result. “Many activities would otherwise not be possible in this way,” says Haimerl. “This applies, for example, to the most recent Internal link opens in the same window:Innovation Night, which detailed the benefits of the international network in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship in collaboration with regional partners.”
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