Inno-UP

Since January 2018, the Fraunhofer IAP has been involved in the project of the BMBF’s and the Joint  Science Conference “Innovative University” funding initia-tive as a direct partner of the University of Potsdam. The overall “Inno-UP” project has the goal to expand the Golm University and Innovation Campus by three new dimensions which are represented by so called “Campuses”. Within the framework of the Education Campus, the research and use of digital forms of learning will be intensified. The sub-project Society Campus aims at strengthening the interfaces between science and civil society.

In addition, and this is where the Fraunhofer IAP is mainly involved, so-called “Joint Labs” (JLs) are to be developed and tested as part of the Technology Campus sub-project. These JLs aim at connecting scientists in order to stimulate transfer activities and the creation of innovation potentials. The JLs are intended as long-term innovation spaces across organizational and technical boundaries. In the course of the project, the conception and implementation of at least three JLs adressing different topics is planned. JL activities will be accompanied by supporting workshops on aspects of open collaborations, open innovation in science, co-creation and also citizen science. In the last two years, the Fraunhofer IAP, the University of Potsdam, Potsdam Transfer and the Innovation Center innoFSPEC have worked closely together to advance the conceptual design and implementation of JL OPAT (Optical Technologies for Process Analytics). Scientists of the Fraunhofer IAP and innoFSPEC jointly identified new issues in the processes of the Fraunhofer IAP, which were investigated using the process analytics techniques of innoFSPEC. Several industrial contacts have already been established within the JLs. The successful collaboration in the JL OPAT is to be continued and expanded in the future – especially with a focus on the acquisition of joint projects and the joint processing of cooperation requests.

Another JL project on which the Fraunhofer IAP is working together with Fraunhofer IZI-BB and the University of Potsdam is the JL Biofunctional Surfaces (BioF). Here, expertise available in the High-Performance Center “Integration of Biological and Physical-Chemical Material Functions” is utilized to focus specificallyon the aspect of biofunctional surfaces .