Hof University of Applied Sciences would like to become independent of external energy in the future. To achieve this goal, the project "Energy self-sufficient Hof University" has now been launched. By the end of the year, Oliver Stark and his team at the iwe want to gain the necessary insights to achieve the big goal. [more]
published: 09.03.2023
Bavaria is intensifying its economic relations with the Arabian Peninsula. A 30-strong delegation from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs from the fields of energy and hydrogen, environmental technology and medical technology traveled to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for this purpose - with them: Dr. Andy Gradel from the Institute for Water and Energy Management at Hof University of Applied Sciences. [more]
published: 28.02.2023
Dr. Harvey Harbach's research on sustainable food production at Hof University of Applied Sciences is one of the winning projects in the university competition for the "Year of Science 2023 - Our Universe". [more]
published: 22.02.2023
With the new online platform "Digital Lotse Wasser," Hof University of Applied Sciences aims to record and publicize modern digitization solutions for the German-speaking water industry. According to the researchers, only around 10 percent of the available digital aids are currently being used in the utility industry. [more]
published: 15.02.2023
While the new building of the Institute for Water and Energy Management (iwe) at Hof University of Applied Sciences is still under construction, the emerging building is already becoming the subject of innovative research. In the OUR-E project that has now been launched, researchers and company representatives are initially analyzing the centerpiece of the new institute building, the central large-scale heat storage system. [more]
published: 07.02.2023
In a video portrait in the "Innovative Women" series, researcher Jessica Wittmann from the Institute of Materials Science explains how surface coatings are developed from natural and sustainable raw materials such as cinnamon or crab shells to keep germ contamination as low as possible and where they are used. [more]
published: 27.01.2023
The DMKG Cluster app has recently become available in the app stores. It was developed by the German Migraine and Headache Society (DMKG) in collaboration with the Institute for Information Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences (iisys) and smartlytic GmbH specifically for sufferers of cluster headache. [more]
published: 24.01.2023
At the end of last year, Prof. Dr. Florian Adamsky from the Institute of Information Systems (iisys) was awarded the contract for a research project involving the protection of RAM in laptops and PCs. [more]
published: 20.01.2023
In the summer of 2021, water ran into the basement of the A building after heavy rain. But what had happened? Where did all the water come from? And what role did the ponds on the university campus play? In the aftermath, some things become clearer. [more]
published: 16.01.2023
In order to save greenhouse gases and natural gas, the increased use of electricity is necessary. A remarkable master's thesis from the "Sustainable Textiles" course is currently looking at how this problem can be solved, especially in the energy-intensive textile industry. [more]
published: 14.12.2022
With funding from the Hightech Agenda Bayern, Professors Tobias Plessing, Tobias Schnabel and Jörg Krumreich and Deputy Institute Director Andy Gradel are currently closing a gap in the research landscape on hydrogen technologies for the future at Hof University of Applied Sciences. Their research focus is on the production of green hydrogen. [more]
published: 07.12.2022
The commercial service, operated by Berlin-based Researchgate GmbH, was launched in May 2008 and, according to its own figures, had attracted around 20 million members worldwide by November 22. [more]
published: 29.11.2022
What is researched at our university? What private hobbies do our colleagues have? Under this question, both researchers and administrative staff selected suitable T-shirts and filled them with life with a short story. They were then presented to a wider circle on the social media channels as #hochschulköpfe. [more]
published: 17.11.2022
For three years it did not take place due to corona, but now the Institute for Applied Biopolymer Research of Hof University of Applied Sciences (ibp) was finally able to participate as an exhibitor at the K trade fair in Düsseldorf. With more than 3000 exhibitors, it is one of the leading trade fairs in the field of plastics and rubber industry [more]
published: 09.11.2022
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