Enquiry: What is a cooperative doctorate?
If you want to add a doctorate to your academic career after completing your Master's degree, sooner or later you will stumble across the term "cooperative doctorate". We explain what exactly this is and which paths are open at Hof University of Applied Sciences. [more]
Innovative spirit meets sustainability: Ideationweek 2025 at Hof University of Applied Sciences
Five days, nine creative minds, one common goal: developing solutions for a better future - that's Ideation Week at Hof University of Applied Sciences. In 2025, the week was once again dedicated to innovation. [more]
Rethinking water treatment - Fisheries training centre cooperates with Hof University of Applied Sciences
Scientists at Hof University of Applied Sciences and engineers from the company Hydrotec in Selb want to optimise the treatment of so-called clear water - for example in intensive freshwater aquaculture. [more]
Plastic in soil, water & air - causes, effects & solutions
Around four kilograms of plastics per capita end up in the environment in Germany every year - with some serious consequences for nature, people and water. How can we reduce this pollution? This was the central question of the S³Rem innovation network. [more]
#kickstart2024: With a financial boost towards your start-up
With KICKSTART, Hof University of Applied Sciences has launched a funding programme that starts at a very early stage of a potential start-up - with the ideas or prototype development. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or prototype. We present: Development of a modular mobile station for the identification of [...]
Textile floating islands: students develop innovation for the city of the future
Floating islands in the centre of the campus? What looks like an art project at first glance is actually an innovative contribution to sustainable urban development. As part of the "AquaTex" project, students at Hof University of Applied Sciences have developed two planted floating islands that can purify water using special textiles. [more]
Students develop sustainable aid for development projects in Africa
How can it be ensured that water and energy systems in developing regions continue to function in the long term and enable the local population to lead a better life in the long term? This question was at the centre of the HIT-A project... [more]
Ukrainian-German cooperation: INWA develops sustainable water technologies
At the end of June, Dr Harvey Harbach, research group leader at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems (inwa), welcomed Ukrainian researchers to the university as part of the project "Integration of the 'sponge city' concept to develop a model for the sustainable restoration and management of water resources in areas of Ukraine affected by military impacts (IKoMoWa)". The aim was to jointly [...]
Development company honours long-standing trailblazers
As part of the general meeting of the Society of Friends and Supporters of Hof University of Applied Sciences, the focus this time was on special personalities in addition to information on the development of the university: four deserving members of the Society of Friends and Supporters, Dr Dorothee Strunz, Dr Christian Heinrich Sandler, Ute Coenen and Jürgen Handke, were honoured for their many years of commitment. [...]
Doctoral thesis at Hof University of Applied Sciences soon possible: Participation in doctoral centre opens up new career paths
It is a scientific milestone for Hof University of Applied Sciences: from 2026, it is now expected that students will be able to complete their own doctoral theses in some research fields at the educational institution, which was founded in 1994, and obtain the corresponding academic degree. The background to this new right to award doctorates is the university's now confirmed participation in the REDIG (Resource Efficiency and Digitalisation) doctoral centre at OTH Amberg-Weiden and the [...]
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