On 12 June 2024, the ten FH-Impuls partnerships met to share their experiences at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen (HAWK) to report on the current status of their activities, successes, hurdles and future prospects and to exchange ideas.

Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences opened its new StartUpLab RISE on 10 April 2024. The premises in Osnabrück harbour have been available to all university members since January 2024 and, with 650 square metres of space, are the largest StartUpLab of this funding measure.

The start-up Omegga, which was founded at HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, has scored a major success: The young start-up team has raised 2.4 million euros from the EIC Accelerator of the European Innovation Council for a technology to determine the sex of chicken eggs.

The Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (HSRW) has won a prestigious EU project: The university and its project partners will receive a total of almost 2.6 million euros to set up an international Doctoral Network (DN) on brain research. The BMBF supported the application process at the HSRW with its FH-Europa funding.

Anhalt University has recently inaugurated an agrivoltaics system that allows agricultural land to be used simultaneously for solar energy production and for arable farming. The “AgriPVplus” system developed in the BIODIV-SOLAR project even features a triple-use concept: The project team has erected vertically installed, bifacial solar modules on a test site and is now investigating the cultivation of crops as well as the integration of insect-friendly wild plant strips between these modules.

On 16 January 2024, Prof. Dr Sabine Döring, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), visited the TH Ingolstadt (THI). The university had invited Prof Döring to gain an insight into the research projects and the large research networks that the THI has established.  

The University of Applied Sciences Jena (EAH Jena) has officially opened its new StartUpLab on 27 June 2023. The ceremony was attended by 170 guests, including Thuringia's Minister President Bodo Ramelow. Moreover, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, sent a video message on the occasion.

The 35 StartUpLabs that have been founded at several UAS since 2020 are producing their first success stories: young start-up teams have formed within the StartUpLabs, attracting attention to their ideas and products, and collecting prizes.

The audience prize at the Digital Health Award 2022 was awarded to the BaSeTaLK project. In this project, the Catholic University of Applied Sciences (CUAS) Mainz and Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg are jointly developing an app for senior citizens in care and retirement homes that promotes social participation and supports biography work.

With the help of innovative underground soil-pipe systems, the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences wants to find regional solutions against the effects of climate change and at the same time improve the microclimate within a region. In this way, communities can be helped with climate adaptation strategies in the future.