Hamburg Innovation Summit 2025
The Meeting Point for Future Innovators On July 10, 2025, Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier will once again transform into a vibrant hotspot for innovation and forward-thinking ideas. The Hamburg Innovation Summit (HHIS) invites innovators, decision-makers, and visionaries from business, academia, politics, and society to come together and explore solutions with real-world impact. With 1,800 square meters of […]
Strong partnership paves the way for worldwide application: research team at UHH cooperates with Siemens Healthineers on innovative imaging method
The medical imaging method developed with the aid of Calls for Transfer should now be destined for use in laboratories around the world. To date, the imaging method could only be used in particle accelerator-based synchrotron plants. Professor Floran Grüner and his team at Universität Hamburg want to overcome this limitation and, in cooperation with […]
Follow-up funding secured: C4T project on deep fakes selected for BMBF “DATIpilot” funding programme
C4T provides framework for further developing research project on protecting authorship of information on social media Especially in critical political situations, information on social media is at high risk of manipulation. The project of the CyberSec Research and Transfer Centre (FTZ) at HAW Hamburg under the direction of Professor Volker Skwarek on the “non-repudiation” of […]
Startup Port founders honoured
For start-ups supported by Startup Port, this year’s GründerGeist start-up competition awards were a huge success, and especially so for mo:re from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), which took first prize. The team from mo:re impressed the jury with its vision of being able to produce customised medicines in the future without the need for […]
Calls for Transfer opens up new perspectives: innovative imaging procedure to get next-stage funding from Joachim Herz Foundation
The initial spark and ultimately the decisive breakthrough for the research work was achieved thanks to funding from Calls for Transfer. Now the innovative, X-ray-based measuring method is set for further development: Dr Theresa Staufer and her team at the Institute of Experimental Physics at Universität Hamburg aim to transform the prototype for the X-ray […]
TRACELESS® secures €36.6 million for construction of first industrial plant
The bioeconomy start-up traceless materials has announced the completion
of a funding round worth €36.6 million.
Professor Florian Grüner receives Innovation Award for X-ray fluorescence
The research project funded by “Calls for Transfer” has received the prestigious Innovation Award for Synchrotron Radiation 2022/2023, awarded annually by HZB (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin). Professor Grüner and his team have developed an innovative medical imaging method that enables the direct tracking of active ingredients in living organisms, among other things. The real-time detection allows precise […]
Calls for Transfer funds 16 new ideas from Hamburg universities
The ninth call marked the end of the successful pilot phase of the “Calls for Transfer” (C4T) funding programme. Of the 63 project applications received from all of Hamburg’s public universities, 16 ideas were selected for funding towards the implementation phase. In line with the principles of the programme, the initial project phase should further […]