third-party funded projects

funded by state subsidies or foundation funds

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This pages gives an overview of the exciting current and past research projects at the IU International University of Applied Sciences, which are or were financed by public funds from e.g. the Ministry of Research or through foundation funding. 

Current projects

Seawave

  • Funded by: European Union, Call: HORIZON EUROPE, Environment and Health
  • Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Christoph Böhmert, christoph.boehmert@iu.org
  • Duration: 01.06.2022 - 31.05.2025


This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101057622.

GameD

Gaming for democracy in the context of contemporary forms of extremism 

  • Funded by: Erasmus+ programme of the EU
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Jens Ostwaldt, jens.ostwaldt@iu.org 
  • Duration: 01.03.2022 – 28.02.2024 

Nutritional monitoring for the International Space Station (NUTRISS)

  • Funded by: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA – ESTEC), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) 
  • Cooperation partner: University of Trieste
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Martina Heer, martina.heer@iu.org 


GREENERING - Green Chemical Engineering Network towards upscaling sustainable processes

(CA18224) – GREENERING - Workgroup 1: Opportunities for Implementation of Green Process at Industrial Scale

  • Funded by: COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Moritz Venschott, moritz.venschott@iu.org
  • Duration: 2019 to 2023


IU E³ (ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM) ONLINE PAN-AFRICAN HYBRID PLATFORM

  • Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 
  • Contact person: Dr. David Rempel, david.rempel@iu.org
  • Duration: 01.05.2022 – 30.11.2022

CAREER PATHS AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS IN SCIENCE AND UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT (KAWUM)

  • Funded by: BMBF – Quality Development in Science 
  • Contact person: Dr. Kerstin Janson 


NUDHE QUALITY - QUALITY IN TEACHING

Constellations of conditions for the use of survey- and process-based data in higher education development - Subproject Quality in Teaching

  • Funded within the framework of the BMBF funding line: Research for Knowledge Transfer
  • Contact: Dr. Kerstin Janson, kerstin.janson@iu.org
  • Duration: 01.08.2022 - 31.07.2025


KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN CULTURAL EDUCATION (WITRA KUBI)

  • Funded by: Federal Ministry for Research and Education 
  • Cooperation partner: Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Lisa Unterberg 


STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF APPROACHING TO AND DISTANCING FROM ISLAMIST RADICALISATION

Development of preventive-pedagogical counselling approaches (“Distance” project) 

  • Funded by: Federal Ministry of Research and Education 
  • Cooperation partner: University of Vechta 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kart, Yannick von Lautz 
  • Duration: 01.11.2020 - 31.10.2024

Spaceglucose

Investigations of changes in glucose metabolism and bone turnover during long-term missions (1 year) in microgravity and investigation of the effects of possible countermeasures in analogous studies.

  • Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy - based on a resolution of the German Bundestag
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Martina Heer, martina.heer@iu.org
  • Duration: 01.03.2021 – 28.02.2024 

GASTRONOMIC SUPPLY GAPS ALONG HIKING TRAILS

Nature Park Nordeifel - Naturally Sustainable! Closing supply gaps with the inclusion of and raising awareness for regional products and regional agriculture

  • Funded by: Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Cooperation partner: Naturpark Nordeifel e. V.
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Felix Wölfle, felix.woelfle@iu.org
  • Duration: 2022 - 2024

SIMULATION AS THEORY-PRACTICE TRANSFER: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL WORK STUDIES

  • Funded by: Stifterverband der Deutschen Wirtschaft – Innovation in Higher Education Teaching 
  • Contact person: Dr. Immanuel Ulrich 
  • Duration: 01.01.2020 - 31.03.2023

expired projects

ATARD - (AIR TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT)

  • Funded by: EU - COST "European Cooperation in Science and Technology" 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Christoph Evangelino 
  • Duration: 2015 - 2019

BLENT

  • Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy – EXIST Potentials 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Wuttig, alexandra.wuttig@iu.org


SHAPING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION - DIGITAL COACHING

  • Funded by: Arbeiterwohlfahrt Bezirksverband Westliches Westfalen e.V. 
  • Cooperation partner: Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Nicole Ermel, nicole.ermel@iu.org 
  • Duration: September 2021to August 2022 

FOOD STARTUP INKUBATOR DIGITAL (FS DIGITAL)

  • Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy – EXIST Potentials 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Wuttig 
  • Duration: 01.04.2020 - 31.03.2021

PARTNERSHIP FOR APPLIED SCIENCES (PASS)

  • Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 
  • Contact person: Dr. David Rempel, Prof. Dr. Peter Thuy 
  • Duration: 2017 - 2021 

SPACEMETABOLISM

STUDIES ON CHANGES IN GLUCOSE TOLERANCE AND INSULIN SENSITIVITY and the dietary habits of astronauts in weightlessness 

  • includes ISS experiments T-Bone 1 and Vasculare Agine 1 - Space Metabolism 
  • Funded by: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy - based on a resolution of the German Bundestag 
  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Martina Heer, martina.heer@iu.org
  • Duration: 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2022 

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