As part of the project "Digital Transformation of Medium-Sized Businesses with Artificial Intelligence (DAMMIT)", members of the System Integration research group at iisys led by Prof. Dr. René Peinl are also conducting research on the topics of speech recognition and speech synthesis. The data set for speech synthesis developed by the research group is now being used by Nvidia, one of the five most important players worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). [more]
published: 08.11.2022
Last week the Institute of Materials Science (ifm) participated in two important space events in Bavaria: Firstly, at the international trade fair Airtec in Munich, which focused in particular on the future direction in aerospace. The second was the Bavarian Space Summit in Weßling/Oberpfaffenhofen, where the Bavarian space community met [more]
published: 03.11.2022
On October 12 and 13, 2022, the Institute for Water and Energy Management (iwe) of Hof University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Kompetenznetzwerk Wasser und Energie e.V. invited specialists from the field of water management to the 2nd Hof Water Symposium [more]
published: 24.10.2022
With a new research project, a team at the Institute for Water and Energy Management at Hof University of Applied Sciences (iwe) wants to develop more sustainable food for fish [more]
published: 19.10.2022
The Kältekreis³, the competence network for refrigeration and air conditioning technology Hochfranken invites interested parties on Monday, 17.10.2022 from 15.00 clock to its 7th network meeting at the company Viessmann Kühlsysteme GmbH in Hof. [more]
published: 11.10.2022
With the aim of better networking and promoting scientific exchange among each other, researchers from the five institutes of Hof University of Applied Sciences met in mid-September for what is now the 3rd scientific institute colloquium. [more]
published: 30.09.2022
An academic career with the goal of becoming a professor is an attractive prospect for many. However, in order to ultimately be able to work in the desired job description, this usually requires far-reaching academic degrees such as a doctorate or habilitation, which is still the most common path to a professorship in Germany, because a habilitation is not required by law [more]
published: 19.09.2022
The 35th Hof Nonwovens Days will start on September 20, 2022 at 09:00 in the Freiheitshalle Hof. After a two-year break due to Corona, exhibitors and experts are looking forward to the personal exchange [more]
published: 16.09.2022
The Hofer water scientist Dr. Harvey Harbach from the Institute for Water and Energy Management recently made a research trip to Southeast Asia. The aim of the trip was an exchange between Germany and Vietnam on sustainable environmental technologies [more]
published: 09.08.2022
Since July 2022, the active phase of the DIGITAL REGIONS network project at the Institute for Information Systems (iisys) has been completed. The project promoted the exchange between eight European partners and regional multipliers since 2019 [more]
published: 02.08.2022
Hof University of Applied Sciences wants to help Bavarian companies place their products and services in the market environment of the emerging "sponge city" or "sponge region" projects. The sponge city idea is about taking various measures to better deal with weather extremes [more]
published: 19.07.2022
The daily teaching and research routine does not always allow to think about the "overall situation" and the general conditions at the university. For this reason, Vice President Valentin Plenk, who is responsible for research at Hof University of Applied Sciences, invited the research professors to a short hiking trip. The idea was to ask where the researchers needed support from the administration in their daily work and which processes they felt still needed to be changed [more]
published: 15.07.2022
Following the kick-off in March of this year, the ADerN network now invited participants to its second meeting at the Einstein1 start-up center. The aim of the ADerN project is to increase the acceptance of regenerative local heating networks among the population, to network players in the Bavarian local heating industry and thus to strengthen the industry in the Free State. [more]
published: 06.07.2022
Students at the Münchberg Campus had the opportunity to speak directly with leading local politicians within the semester project "City of the Future". Using the city of Münchberg as an example, the communication design students also presented their ideas for an intelligent region and city of the future. [more]
published: 01.07.2022
At the Institute for Applied Biopolymer Research (ibp) at Hof University of Applied Sciences, research is currently being conducted on a microtube that is visible in ultrasound and is intended to significantly simplify the work of anesthesiologists at hospitals [more]
published: 28.06.2022
Climate change and its often devastating consequences are omnipresent worldwide. In the coming year, a project at Hof University of Applied Sciences will focus on the concrete consequences for rural areas in the region of Upper Franconia [more]
published: 17.06.2022
Since 2020, Jessica Wittmann has been researching an unusual idea: The fisheries waste chitosan is to be used to arm surfaces against viruses and bacteria and thus inhibit the spread of pathogens. So will we already be lying in such a coated bed during a future hospital stay or will we soon be riding in a bus whose seats are practically free of viruses and bacteria? [more]
published: 15.06.2022
On June 10, 2022, Hof University of Applied Sciences, the Chamber of Crafts for Upper Franconia and the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Handwerk Schaufenster Bayreuth invited interested parties to a joint event "Exoskeletons in Crafts" at the Lucas-Cranach-Campus in Kronach. [more]
published: 13.06.2022