Active Projects
See also list of PhD projectsARTEMIS
We are happy to announce that our EU Interreg 6A Germany-Denmark project proposal, entitled Pioneering SMEs: Innovative SMEs as Forerunners to Master the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century - ARTEMIS got granted. The project aims to increase innovation and digitalization potential to foster economic growth and competitiveness of SMEs in the German-Danish border region as well as the future viability of the program region. The German-Danish border region is strongly characterized by SMEs. Areas of strength include tourism, renewable energies, manufacturing, or crafts. SMEs face challenges in terms of digitalization, automation, and sustainability. Some local SMEs are traditionally active in less technology-oriented areas. Catch-up processes for sustainable and digital transformation of markets would be cost-intensive and risky. Tailored collaboration will promote student-supported innovations in SMEs. In this way, current knowledge acquired during studies will flow into everyday business life. ARTEMIS will identify the needs of the SMEs and it will develop a joint concept for initiatives, which are implemented and evaluated with the participating companies. Partners from both sides of the border are involved in each initiative. A permanent cross-border network of actors is established to support innovation capacity in SMEs and to improve the intercultural climate.
The ITI section Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation TEI in Sønderborg will be the lead partner and is granted about 624,000€ with an overall project sum for TEI of about 960,000 €. Partners in this German-Danish cross-border project will be Wirtschaftsförderung Nordfriesland, Hochschule Flensburg, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Sønderborg Vækstråd, Business Aabenraa, Mind Factory by Ecco and Wirtschaftsförderung Rendsburg-Eckernförde with an overall project sum of 2,4 Mio. €. The project is supported by 28 network partners, it is supposed to start on March 1, 2023, and will last for 3 years.
For further information please contact Associate Professor Silke Tegtmeier, tegtmeier@iti.sdu.dk
GRØN.business - sustainability for companies
SDU TEI will contribute as a project partner to the EU Interreg 6A Germany-Denmark project GRØN.business - sustainability for companies.
The project aims to promote sustainability and the transition to circular economy solutions with a focus on SMEs. Sustainable management is an important aspect of meeting the global challenges of securing the basis of life for humans and nature. The circular economy plays a central role in this context. German and Danish companies face the challenge of meeting the increased demands of customers and business partners in the future and being competitive and sustainable.
Related challenges are: the SDGs are too complex to use as a tool for SMEs; limited resources within small and medium-sized companies are hurdles; companies often know WHAT to do, but not HOW.
The project, therefore, focuses on practical application complexity, addressing limited resources and providing support for concrete action. The possibilities of the circular economy and other SDG-oriented measures are to be made manageable in practice for companies and economic actors in the border region.The lead partner of the project is KielRegion GmbH. SDU TEI is joined by several business development agencies on both sides of the border as project partners, namely WFG Rendsburg-Eckernförde, WFG Nordfriesland, Kalundborgegnens Erhvervsråd, Business Esbjerg, and Sorø Erhverv. In addition, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences joins the partner consortium and the project is supported by some 20 network partners within the program region.
The project starts on March 1st, 2023, will run for 3 years and has a financial volume of 20 Mio. DKK. For additional information, please contact Associate Professor Kari Kleine, kleine@iti.sdu.dk .
EFICAS
EFICAS – Energy Efficient Heterogeneous AI-Framework for Smart Mobile and Embedded Systems is an ITEA4 project, and it has four Turkish partners and two Danish partners. In Denmark, the project is financed by Innovation Fond Denmark.
EFICAS introduces a software framework supporting the energy efficient deployment of AI algorithms on multicore heterogeneous computation technologies. It supports technology solutions, including localized and distributed computation settings. It addresses resource allocation at runtime and hybrid coherent operation with optimized task allocation. The project will run until summer 2025.
For further information, please contact Arne Bilberg, abi@iti.sdu.dk
REKON – Reconfigurable Manufacturing (“ Udvikling af Rekonfigurerbar Produktion”)
This project has Aalborg university as lead partner and is financed by Industriens Fond. Other partners are SDU, Jönköping University and Technological Institute. The project is about researching reconfigurable manufacturing and develop a specific framework and a toolbox to get the theory out in practice. The project is relevant to companies that experience often changes in product variance or demand. In this case the manufacturing has to be changeable and adaptable to be able cope with these changing demands.
The project involve a number of cases from industrial companies in Denmark and part of Sweden, here to mention Elvstrøm Sails, Vestas, Dan-Foam/Tempur Sealy, Grundfos, Kamstrup, Volvo, Ljusgårde.The TEI section has been involved in more of the pilot projects and have demonstrated with computer simulation, how reconfigurable solutions can look like and what it means to the pilots. The project will run until summer 2023.
For further information, please contact Arne Bilberg, abi@iti.sdu.dk
VIRLADEE
Virladee is a two-year project funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus + programme. Starting in March 2021, it involves three partners:
University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche – STIIMA (CNR-STIIMA).
Virladee’s goal is to give access to physical engineering labs through their digital twins that will be available in an innovative online platform.
These virtual lab facilities will provide a playground that is complementary to the existing learning methods, delivering quality and inclusive engineering education through state-of-the-art virtual technologies.
The section SDU Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (TEI) conducts research and education within various phases of the innovation process, and it extends the traditional view by considering the boundary-crossing and interdisciplinary nature of innovation from engineering to business.
Focus areas will be general engineering and how to generate innovative products and production of the future, as well as developing and demonstrating technical engineering solutions in combination with comprehensive business models.
Read more about the VIRLADEE project
For further information, please contact Kari Kleine, kleine@iti.sdu.dk
InProReg
SDU Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation is lead partner in this 4-year project lasting from 2017 to 2021. The project will build knowledge for innovative manufacturing and support business within cross-border production.
For additional material please visit https://inproreg.eu/en/inproreg-innovative-production-region/
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Fit4Jobs@WaddenC
The Fit4Jobs project aims at creating a sustainable job market in the German-Danish border region through knowledge transfer, workforce attraction and mobility. Lead partner in this project is the Tønder municipality with the House of Exporters. SDU Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation is primarily involved in the following activities:
• Needs assessment of companies in the program region for support in technology-related innovation
• Development of a regional-specific service portfolio regarding technology-related innovation
• Conducting innovation trainings as part of the Fit4Jobs project
The project was running from March 2018 until June 2021. Other project partners are the district Nordfriesland with the respective educational institutes and the business development agency, as well as the Tønder Handelsskole.
For additional material please visit https://f4j.dk/index.php/da/ ( Danish or German)
For further information, please contact Kari Kleine, kleine@iti.sdu.dk
Flexible Lean Automation (MADE)
This project was supported by MADE – Manufacturing Academy Denmark, and Linak A/S. The purpose has been to research innovation solutions for the factory of the future at Linak specifically, but also more generic to Danish manufacturing businesses.
Besides investigating manufacturing for design where manufacturing becomes adaptable and reconfigurable with a very flexible flow of material through the business, the focus is on collaborative robots and digital twins. The project was 3-year PhD project ending March 2020
For further information, please contact Arne Bilberg, abi@iti.sdu.dk
FucoSan
Fucosan was a Marine biotechnology INTERREG project. The project objective was to set up and implement a cross-border regional cluster in applied science and commercial use by using fucoidans from endemic seawed and establishing a fucoidan-based German-Danish value chain in fields of wellbeing and health using endemic seaweed.
SDU Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation collaborated with the regional partner CAU Kiel University and was active in the following project activities:
• Establishment of German-Danish innovation eco-system
• Marketable business model for different fucoidan-based products and services
• Innovation chain concept
• Technology Road-map
The project was a 3-year project ending February 2020, with budget of 3.8m EUR. Other project partners were UKSH Universitätsklinikum Kiel, CAU Kiel University, OUH Hospital, DTU, Costal Research & Management, GEOMAR and oceanbasis.
For further information, please contact Arne Bilberg, abi@iti.sdu.dk
Smart Learning Factory
Research related to the SmartFactory is tested and communicated in the SDU MCI Innovation lab, in the area named the Smart Learning Factory, where we can demonstrate and test Industry 4.0 enabling technologies with focus on easy accessible technologies for lean automation solutions. The Smart Learning Factory is a playground the research where we can present simulation and physical small-scale production. The physical setup consists of modular reconfigurable building blocks, where we can remodel systems, simulate and afterwards build small scale models in the Learning lab. For further information, please contact David Grube Hansen, davidgrube@iti.sdu.dk or Arne Bilberg, abi@iti.sdu.dk