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19. September 2019

PCCL: Seminar "High Performance UV/VIS/IR"

The High-Performance UV/VIS/IR seminar offers you the chance to add to your knowledge and to discuss specialist topics and current issues with experts. New materials through the years – nano-hybrid, biodegradable, energy storage or the recycling of existing resources represent continual demands made on the development and adaptation of measuring methods.

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28. August 2019

LKR: 3D-Printing in the New Additive Manufacturing Laboratory

In the newly established additive manufacturing laboratory at LKR, complex 3D components are manufactured using the modern WAAM (wire-arc additive manufacturing) production method. Scientists at LKR have been conducting research into the welding rods needed for this, which are made of aluminium and magnesium materials and must be suitable for WAAM, for several years now. In LKR’s own smart production routing these special rods are developed, pressed and spooled.

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19. August 2019

Software Competence Center Hagenberg: New CEO Markus Manz

From August Markus Manz takes over as chief executive officer of Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH). A graduate in economics and environmental sciences, Manz was previously CEO of tech2b Inkubator GmbH, the central support institute for start-ups in the province of Upper Austria. “The research that SCCH does in the fields of data and software science makes it an active partner in the local economy,” says Manz.

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15. July 2019

K1-MET Plays Key Role in Paving Way for “Green” Steel Production

Making the vision of green steel production in Europe reality requires the strategic concentration of forces from industry and research at EU level. Devising a pan-European approach is one way to pave the way for a low-emission future for the steel industry. In its second funding period from July 2019 to June 2023, the metallurgy competence centre K1-MET is providing a solid basis for this master plan, for instance with the “LowCarbonFuture” project.

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09. July 2019

CHASE: New COMET Research Centre Founded

The foundations for expanding the UAR Innovation Network were laid towards the end of last year when funding approval was obtained for the COMET K1 centre. On 28 June the new research centre CHASE (Chemical Systems Engineering) was officially founded. The four owners are the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Vienna University of Technology, UAR and the partner companies’ association. In October the centre, housed in the LIT Open Innovation Center at the JKU, will begin its research activities in Linz and provide active support to the chemical industry with its initiatives towards Chemistry 4.0.

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08. July 2019

RISC Software: High-Performance Computing in the Danube Region

The “InnoHPC” project deals with the need to equip small and medium-sized enterprises with the latest supercomputer technologies in order to improve cooperation between the electronics and automotive branches. The project is based on the principle that services provided by high-performance computing centres can help small and medium-sized enterprises to put their innovative ideas into practice and reduce the time needed to complete development of the product and launch it on the market.

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01. July 2019

Upper Austrian Pop-up Store in Munich

To demonstrate the advantages of Upper Austria as a business and research location to businesses outside Austria, the Business & Technology Roadshow launched successfully in 2018 to present the region will be continued. This year, business agency Business Upper Austria will be showcasing the region for one week in Munich and is looking for more partners who would like to present themselves and their portfolios of services.

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24. June 2019

RISC Software: Personalized Medicine Thanks to a Navigation System

Cancer is among the most common diseases and causes of death in our society. The TourGuide research project, a collaboration between the Institute of Computer Graphics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, the research department of medical informatics at RISC Software GmbH and the Kepler University Clinic (KUK), ran until April 2019 and developed a kind of navigation system for documenting and analysing complex clinical data.

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12. June 2019

Wood: Networking Event for Austria & The Netherlands

On the initiative of the Austrian embassy in the Netherlands and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research a networking event for Austrian and Dutch science and research institutes and universities was organized. This remarkable event was hosted by ambassador Heidemaria Gürer in her official residence in The Hague from 21 to 22 March.

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11. June 2019

COMET: Three K modules for UAR Innovation Network

The results of the first K module call under the COMET research funding scheme are in. This latest addition to the COMET research funding programme enables existing K1 centres to tackle subjects of supreme relevance for the future. Three of the six approved innovation projects come from the UAR Innovation Network. SCCH continues to break new ground in research into artificial intelligence. In two K modules, PCCL is developing polymer materials for both the digital age and hydrogen technology.

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