science & research

Partnership for more sustainability in Bangladesh’s textile industry

In the context of sustainable development, the textile industry in Bangladesh is currently placing greater emphasis on compliance with social and environmental sustainability standards. To this end, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is implementing the project "Higher Education and Leadership Development for Sustainable Textiles in Bangladesh (HELD)" on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) [more]

published: 30.05.2022

New Aquaponics facility: At the Hof Zoo, you can now live and breathe sustainability

The Zoological Society of Hochfranken and the Institute for Water and Energy Management (iwe) at Hof University of Applied Sciences have launched the environmental education project "Aquaponics at the Zoo - Living Sustainability". It was possible to expand the existing aquarium of the Savannah House into an aquaponics facility at the Hof Zoo [more]

published: 25.05.2022

Hypertext project with Kronach law firm enters second round

The JuraLink project started in July 2021 in cooperation between the Kronach law firm Wittmann and the Visual Analytics research group of the Institute for Information Systems (iisys). After the successful completion of the first project phase, the partners extend the cooperation. JuraLink II started in January 2022. [more]

published: 23.05.2022

The MakerSpace introduces itself: High-tech workshop for creative minds

The MakerSpace in the C-Building at Hof University is a professional workshop with high-tech machines, tools and software. In an interview with René Göhring, the project engineer of the MakerSpace, and student employee Lea Schmidt, we from Campuls.digital present the high-tech workshop at Hof University of Applied Sciences in more detail. [more]

published: 10.05.2022

Award for digitization and research in university teaching

During this year's Dies Academicus, on April 25, 2022, the Society of Friends and Sponsors of Hof University of Applied Sciences awarded prizes to the winners of the "Digital Awakening of Teaching" award for 2020 and 2021 and also presented a special research prize for 2021. [more]

published: 29.04.2022

Faculty of Computer Science: Modern Web Development with Hof.js

Client-side web development is currently dominated worldwide by the web frameworks Angular (Google) and React (Meta/Facebook) as well as Vue. In the European/German market, there is currently no competitive solution and universities/universities have not yet been able to counter this. The university project Hof.js under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Walter Kern is trying to change this and already offers innovative functionalities in the first version that are in part clearly superior to the solutions of the top dogs Google & Co. [more]

published: 29.04.2022