Publicly funded research projects

Developing and Providing a teaching module kit for AI.

The goal of the project is to better accompany the individual study process based on learning data through a digital mentor and thus work towards the goal of reducing the probability of dropping out.

In the past the topic of digital teaching at the University of Hohenheim has been considered at the micro level of the individual course. Within this project, the level of the degree programmes as well as the level of the teaching culture and teaching organisation should be considered globally.

Implementation of the Reallabor Pfaff-Areal Kaiserslautern – Integrated concepts, innovative technologies and social science research in a climate-neutral district lighthouse.

The EvalDiGe project is concerned with recording and evaluating the digital maturity of German public health agencies in the period from 2022 to 2025. To this end, the project further evolves the maturity model developed in the ReDiGe project, evaluating the current maturity level of the public health agencies in Germany during the project period with the help of a web tool.

Research network on the healthy use of digital technologies and media.

Examiniation of the opportunities and challenges arising at the intersection of AI and blockchain, as well as examining resulting production networks. The diverse research areas are elicited in the three labs, the Machine Economy Lab (MEL), the Digital Ecosystems Lab (DEL) and the Digital Innovation Lab (DIL).

demonstration of the usability of secure and interoperable identities of institutions, companies, citizens and devices in the energy context to realize transparent documentation of CO2 evidence and its trading.

Design, implementation and evaluation of an energy industry data platform based on a block chain for the use cases “labeling” and “asset logging”

The goal of the ITSM project is to develop the status quo, the possible target picture with the necessary fields of action as well as concrete implementation recommendations with regard to IT service management at Bavarian university computer centers.

Intelligent battery cell manufacturing with AI-supported process monitoring based on a generic system architecture.

he Open District Hub (ODH) initiative helps to develop energy-efficient residential districts using locally generated, renewable energy and smart systems. The energy transition is linking the infrastructure of electricity and heating. For sector coupling in buildings and districts to succeed, comprehensive models and modern tools are needed for the planning and operation of corresponding technical systems.

The Open District Hub (ODH) initiative helps to develop energy-efficient residential districts using locally generated, renewable energy and smart systems. The energy transition is linking the infrastructure of electricity and heating. For sector coupling in buildings and districts to succeed, comprehensive models and modern tools are needed for the planning and operation of corresponding technical systems.

The mobility sector and the electricity sector face profound challenges in the context of the decarbonisation targets. The aim of the ODH@SIZ project is to link these two sectors intelligently with each other in the sense of sector coupling within the framework of a pilot project at the location of the Zusmarshausen Innovation Park. For this purpose, a modular ICT ecosystem is to be developed, which networks existing proprietary isolated applications and can be transferred to other locations.

The project will develop an open online self-study course on “Blockchain/Distributed-Ledger Technologies: Enabler of the Digital Transformation”.

Palliative care as a digital working world: Perspectives and design options for the digital transformation of communication and collaboration processes in multi-professional care in the last phase of life

Within the scope of the research project, an IIoT security management platform with software-supported, (partially) automated consulting, requirements and testing tools is to be developed, which supports users in the development of secure IIoT solutions.

As part of the PsProoF project, the University of Bayreuth is working with various partners to develop and integrate an EBSI (European Blockchain Services Infrastructure) application with the blockchain solution developed at the BAMF (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) to improve coordination of the asylum process.

In the project, a maturity model was developed in a participatory process with more than 50 public health departments and other stakeholders. Public health departments can use the maturity model to analyze their current level of digitization and define a target level of digitization.

The project Secure Industry 4.0 in Swabia (SIS 4.0) investigates innovative, digital approaches and methods for the core areas of industry 4.0 with special consideration of the security requirements of digital solution approaches.

The project aims to develop an innovative Zero Trust security architecture for critical infrastructure and to test a prototype implementation in practice.

In the project “Stadtquartier 2050”, the task of supplying the building stock of the Federal Republic of Germany, and thus also of our cities, with almost climate-neutral energy by the year 2050 is being tackled in two exemplary quarters in the cities of Stuttgart and Überlingen.

SynErgie is one of the nationwide projects within the funding initiative of Kopernikus projects for the energy transition. The project is dedicated to the question of how a flexible alignment of industrial processes to a fluctuating energy supply can balance the electricity system.

Development and marketing of cross-sectoral logistics management in health care sector with the help of networked realtime information processing.

Benchmarking of logistical support and service processes in healthcare and industrial applications.

Big data analysis and forecasting of energy consumption and refurbishment costs in real estate.

The c.HANGE project has the objective to improve the consulting situation between craftsmen and house owners, with the intention to significantly increase energy efficiency as well as the use of renewable thermal energy.

Development of a catallaxie paradigm for the decentralized use of dynamic application networks.

Ecosystem for COllaborative Manufacturing PrOceSses – Intra- and Interfactory Integration and AutomaTION

The identification of competencies that enable humans and AI to work together constructively and the development of human-centered design recommendations are the focus of the project. The Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, the University of Hohenheim, the FOM University of Economics & Management and youCcom GmbH aim to use AI carefully, sustainably and effectively, in order to avoid human stress caused by a technology that permeates our living and working world.

Within the framework of the research project “Data-Based Services for Industrial Enterprises” (DaSIe), innovative analytics solutions and data-based business model innovations are being developed with the help of an overarching research and development approach. This will enable Bavarian companies to further increase their competitiveness in increasingly digitalized, global value-added networks.

Within the framework of the new ESF project “Digital Transformation Workshop”, an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Bayreuth creates and establishes knowledge transfer networks for the qualification of employees as an instrument for the dynamic further training of workers.

Reference Module Design for Explorative Business Process Management.

Ziel des EMIKA-Projektes ist es, die Optimierungspotenziale von komplexen Arbeitsabläufen in Kliniken und den dazugehörigen Stakeholdern zu erforschen.

The goal of this project is to first find out what can be counted as relevant information about reputation. How can this information be represented, generated and distributed? And finally, how do agents deal with this information?

The research unit analysed the technological change induced by evolving e-commerce network infrastructures and powerful application systems for networked businesses. Against the backdrop of technological change, they investigated the implications for newly evolving, more transparent, location-independent, networked markets.

In SIPKIS I, a generic concept for individualised consultations in the financial services sector was developed and a prototype for individualised retirement consultations was implemented. Many of the results were successfully transferred into practice. In SIPKIS II, it was analysed how the situations and roles relevant for individualised counselling can be categorised, what effect they have on counselling and how they should be integrated into the concept for individualised counselling.

Together with its project partners – under the technical direction of Professor Dr. Torsten Eymann (BF/M, Bayreuth), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Müller (Uni Freiburg, IIG Telematik) and Dipl.-Inf. Martin Jurisch (AristaFlow GmbH, Ulm) – the aim is to support small and medium-sized enterprises in the secure introduction and use of eBusiness standards.

The goal of the Health Care 4.0 project is to use digitalisation in rural areas such as Upper Franconia to help improve general medical and GP care for patients. The focus here is on medical care for patients who are in inpatient or outpatient care. For example, the doctor should be able to access the digital care file during the online consultation and communicate with the patient via video consultation if necessary.

The aim of the research project Hospital 4.0 is the further development of innovative logistics systems in hospitals by using existing digital technologies. Within the framework of the two reference processes, warehouse logistics and bed logistics, a reference model of the vision Hospital Logistics 2030 is being developed as well as pilots that are to demonstrate the potential of digitalisation.

The consortium project “ILLumINE” (Intelligent, Data-Driven and Grid-Stabilising Energy Supply Management for Industrial Companies) is developing a digital energy management platform that controls self-generators, flexible consumers and external procurement and ensures economically viable control as well as grid-stable operation.

inContAlert is a portable sensor system for non-invasive measurement of the urinary bladder level. The device gives an alarm to incontinence patients when a predefined and possibly critical filling level is reached.

The vision of integrated, value-oriented corporate management (Integrated Enterprise Balancing – 4R) is intended to enable companies across all sectors to monitor and manage their business activities with risk and return indicators that are consistent throughout the company. At the same time, these ratios should fulfil the requirements of regulation with regard to transparency (e.g. Basel II) as well as those of external reporting obligations (e.g. SOX).

The objective of the IT Strategy Lab for Innovation and Sustainability (ISIS) at the University of Bayreuth is to build up an application-oriented knowledge base in the field of strategic and sustainable IT management and to carry out practical cooperation in Upper Franconia, thereby promoting the transfer of knowledge between science and practice.

It is necessary to design IT in a way that takes into account risk and return and to align it carefully with business strategy. At the same time, companies need powerful and flexible IT to support decision-making in order to be competitive and to gain competitive advantage. A holistic approach that does justice to this dual role of IT is the focus of the “IT Portfolio Management” project. The focus here is on economic and interdisciplinary issues rather than technological ones.

In particular, there is a lack of practical concepts and realisations of agile process management systems that go beyond research prototypes. Against this background, the goal of the project “KEBAP” (KPI-based real-time control of particularly agile processes) is to develop an agile process management system that supports KPI-based execution control of agile processes.

Within the publicly funded research project „LIS4FUTURE – Laborinformationssystem der Zukunft“ the Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT (PG BISE) works in collaboration with Medizinische Labor-Organisations-Systeme (MELOS) GmbH on the development of a demonstrator enabling configuration and modularization of flexible, data-driven business processes.

Inline production and quality control during milling of metallic and CFK production applications.

Efficient home, outpatient patient care with pharmaceuticals and medical products is difficult to implement in Germany due to strict legal regulations. The Mediheld project does not aim at a complete abolition of the paper prescription, but complements it with a digital collaboration platform for the actors involved, through which patient care can be provided more efficiently.

Travelers increasingly expect a carefree travel experience with any point of departure and destination (“Seamless Mobility as a Service”) – and that with a single booking and billing for all means of transport used. To meet these expectations, the idea of an open and decentralized mobility system is increasingly being discussed. In the “OMOS” project, the requirements of various stakeholders for a corresponding system were examined and evaluated for their feasibility.

The aim of the research project PräDiTec is to analyse the load and strain profile changed by digitalisation and to develop specific prevention measures.

Objective of the research project Integrated Finance and Information Management is to build up a science factory at the University of Augsburg that is focused on the transformation of existing scientific concepts to specific questions in business practice. On the one hand this comprises building up a knowledge base, respectively. On the other hand it comprises providing enterprises in the region Augsburg/Schwaben (Bavaria) with this operational knowledge, in particular.

As main part of the research project, we design a planning algorithm (SEMPA – SEMantic-based Planning of Activities) that, given a problem to be solved by a process, is able to compose process actions to executable process models.

In the second phase of funding, we build on the results of the first SEMPRO phase and intend to enhance the so far developed concepts of a (partially) automated planning of process models using semantic technologies and ontologies.

Smart Devices (such as Smartphones and Smart Watches) offer many options to support production processes, such as optimization or worker assistance. So far, neither implementation recommendations nor standardized APIs exist. The project SmarDe´s@Work aims at usefully utilizing Smart Devices in the production area. In the foreground stands the connection of different production participants, such as workers, machines and information systems.

The goal of the project “Smart Sustainability Simulation Game” (S3G) is to develop a new, student-centered and interactive simulation game with teamwork, gamification and competition elements. Within the simulation game, master students acquire and deepen various techno-economic and sustainability competencies in realistic and hands-on scenarios.

The aim of the project was to develop a platform for the exchange of “on-demand” resources. So-called grid systems serve as the basis for the infrastructure. By connecting to a grid via the Internet, companies are enabled to access resources such as server capacity, storage capacity or applications on demand from service providers.

Especially energy-intensive industries can no longer count on available electricity when it is required. Research institutes should help energy-intensive companies in the understanding of future electricity usage and availability.

The aim of the research project Transparency in Production Processes (TRiP) is to increase the transparency of production processes through the targeted application of intelligent cloud computing and big data analytics approaches to continuously optimize complex production processes in the involved Bavarian industrial companies.

In the research project VABA 4.0, the Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering develops an IT tool that supports small and medium-sized businesses in the introduction of Industry 4.0.The created tool selects suitable technologies and helps to derive, evaluate and analyze an introduction and migration strategy.

The goal of the VIATOR project (Virtual Working Platform for Technology and Organization in Dispersed Research Operations) is to create a flexible and service-oriented IT research infrastructure at the University of Bayreuth in order to improve performance in research and teaching without additional costs.

As part of the project “Wissenschaftscampus E-Commerce” (Science Campus E-Commerce), the Project Group Business and Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT and three other scientific partners (Fraunhofer Institute IIS, University of Bayreuth, Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts) are striving to establish and perpetuate five innovation laboratories along the e-commerce value chain.

Within the scope of this proposal for a research grant, we pursue the objective to develop methods that allow for a continuous value-based steering of IT-projects based on a capable ex ante valuation. The results of prior granted research projects like e.g. “IT-Portfolio Management” (BU 809/10-1) provide the ideal basis for this undertaking: The objective of this specific project was the development of methods for the valuation of IT-projects and IT-portfolios considering both risk and return.