News & Events

  • On the right track: IMPROVE partners meet for a joint work session in Istanbul

    The IMPROVE partners Arcelik A.S, Marmara University and Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences kicked off this New Year with a meeting in Istanbul from 17 to 19 January. Welcoming their colleagues from Germany to the buzzling metropole on the Bosporus, the three-day meeting took place at the premises of both Turkish partners: at...
  • New HMI Cluster Activities: IMPROVE and INCLUSIVE Join Forces

    Seeking for new cluster activities within the community for human-machine interface (HMI), the IMPROVE consortium came across INCLUSIVE – a project that has just started last October. With all of its previous cluster projects ending in 2015, IMPROVE needed new partners focusing on HMI research and its wider application. INCLUSIVE is a project...
  • IMPROVE consortium meets in Munich for the 1st Progress Meeting

    After one year of project work, Prof. Birgit Vogel-Heuser and her team welcomed the IMPROVE partners at the premises of the AIS at TU Munich for the project’s first Progress Meeting on October 11th and 12th. The Consortium members used the two meeting days discussing the work performed during the first project year, planning next steps and working...
  • IMPROVE at „Successful R&I between North Rhine-Westfalia and Poland“

    IMPROVE-partners Marta Fullen (Fraunhofer IOSB) and Adam Gąsiorek (TT) presented the project at the “Successful R&I between North Rhine-Westfalia and Poland”-Conference in Cologne. The conference was organised on behalf of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Consulate General...
  • IMPROVE highlighted in EFFRA newsletter

    Following the successful IMPROVE presentation during the EFFRA Fof Conference in April, the project is now described in IMPACT - the newsletter from the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA). The second edition of IMPACT focuses on six EU-funded projects: ROBO-PARTNER, LinkedDesign, Use-It-Wisely, Eco-Solar Factory,...
  • Coordinator presents IMPROVE project at the Factories of the Future Conference 2016

    IMPROVE Coordinator, Prof. Dr Oliver Niggemann, of Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, will be attending Factories of the Future 2016: Materialising technologies 4.0, in Brussels this September (15th & 16th) and present the project at the occasion of the conference. Factories of the Future 2016 brings together leading experts of the manufacturing...
  • IMPROVE invited to EFFRA FoF Impact workshop

    The European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) together with the European commission will hold a workshop on the Impact of the Factories of the Future PPP  on April 14th and 15th in Brussels. The workshop aims at reporting on the success and impact of a selection of ongoing and completed PPP projects from FP7 and Horizon...
  • IMPROVE-Coordinator receives research award

    Professor Oliver Niggemann, coordinator of the IMPROVE-project, has been awarded with the University of Applied Sciences researcher’s award. The "Forschungspreis der Hochschule" is given to scientists for outstanding performance in research and teaching. The award is endowed with 10.000 Euros to be invested in core research areas of the...