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 […]

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 […]

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 […]