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HiPEAC, a European network of almost 2,000 world-class computing systems researchers, named Dr. Matthias Jung (Fraunhofer IESE), Lukas Steiner and Norbert Wehn (TU Kaiserslautern) as winners of the prestigious Tech Transfer Award for their work on DRAMSys4.0.

At the beginning of January, the two-year joint research project “BaSys überProd” on the topic of “Cross-company production support” through software started with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project is primarily aimed at manufacturing companies.

Agriculture is one of the pioneering industries in terms of digitalization. Now the German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Julia Klöckner, is also leading the way in the smart handling of the increasing amount of agricultural data in Europe: Germany will be the first country in the EU to establish a comprehensive government-run data platform.

In the context of the German EU Council Presidency, the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, together with universities and research institutes in the state, will present the European digital conference “TRUSTinAI. Responsible AI for Science and Society”.

Infrastructure projects such as road and bridge construction are complex and expensive construction projects. The more complex the project, the more demanding it becomes to meet the agreed deadlines, quality targets, and cost objectives. The research project “Infra-Bau 4.0” addresses this problem. The goal is to develop a platform on which all partners involved in a construction project are mapped digitally with their various resources and processes and are networked within a single Digital Ecosystem. This will enable effective and efficient planning and re-planning of construction – even for complex projects in a volatile context. As the technical-scientific project lead, Fraunhofer IESE will focus particularly on ecosystem modeling and platform design. The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur – BMVI) is funding the project until the end of 2021 with more than four million euros.

As a pioneer in applied research, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft brings together the expertise of 23 separate Fraunhofer facilities to develop new development and production technologies for innovative cell and gene therapeutics, as well as vaccines, in the “Production for Intelligent Medicine” innovation cluster. As a first step of the project, a concept for a modular pilot plant for the automatic production of these therapeutics is to be developed combining both Industry 4.0 and Health 4.0.

A just-released report shows how to improve safety and reduce traffic disruption on building construction sites.