"InSchuKa" project: Sustainability award for intelligently controlled channels
Climate change and extreme weather conditions pose major challenges for water management. The JenaWasser special-purpose association is developing intelligent digital solutions for this in the InSchuKa research project and in collaboration with Hof University of Applied Sciences, among others. [more]
Cooperation with India expanded: Wastewater from the pharmaceutical industry is purified
As part of the pharmIn2 project, representatives from the Bavarian-Indian Centre for Industry and Higher Education (BayIND) and the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems (inwa) at Hof University of Applied Sciences travelled to India. The project aims to adapt the innovative a3op® wastewater treatment technology to the Indian market. [more]
Green hydrogen as a core technology of the energy transition - partnerships with Namibia
Namibia in particular is considered by many experts to be one of the most promising countries for the cost-effective production of green hydrogen and its derivatives such as methane, ammonia or methanol. [more]
#kickstart2024 - Introducing: Mobile measurement test station for analysing soil moisture
With KICKSTART, Hof University of Applied Sciences has set up a funding programme that starts at a very early stage of a potential start-up - with ideas or prototype development. The KICKSTART teams have six months to develop their idea into an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) or prototype. [more]
Hof University of Applied Sciences qualifies refugees and migrants for the water industry
A new type of further training programme started at the beginning of April: a total of 19 participants came together to gain further qualifications for tasks in the Bavarian water industry. The training programme is aimed specifically at people with a refugee or migrant background who are currently receiving citizen's benefits. [more]
"Learning Bites 2024": How the university can learn from itself "bite by bite"!
The Institute for Sustainable Water Systems (inwa) would like to promote methodological expertise, for example in project management within research, and at the same time familiarise researchers with processes and partners at the university with a new format aimed purely at scientists from its own university. [more]
With the help of AI: sewer networks are to be managed intelligently
The development of an intelligent management system for sewer networks is the aim of a research project involving Hof University of Applied Sciences. This is to be achieved by using innovative sewer network sensors and incorporating historical weather data and current weather forecasts. [more]
Pollution from pharmaceutical residues - university strengthens wastewater treatment in India
The purification of toxic wastewater from the pharmaceutical industry in India is to be improved - this is the aim of a research project at the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems at Hof University of Applied Sciences (inwa). [more]
5000 € donation: VR Bank Bayreuth - Hof supports water research
VR Bank Bayreuth-Hof has been committed to Hof University of Applied Sciences for many years and thus to the educational prospects in the region. With a donation of EUR 5,000 from the net proceeds of the bank's savings programme, research at the new Institute for Sustainable Water Systems (inwa) can now be expanded. [more]
Topic "Sustainable urban development": Visit from Mongolia
The International Department of the Bildungswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (bbw) gGmbH organised a specialist seminar back in October. An 18-strong delegation from Mongolia therefore spent an exciting week in Bavaria on the subject of sustainable urban development and also came to Hof University of Applied Sciences. [more]
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