Research focuses

The core elements of our research strategy are the concepts of change and innovation. Thanks to our organizational anchoring in an educational network and the strong vocational orientation of our degree programs, we have good access to regional companies, municipalities and social institutions. In addition to global challenges, such as increasing digitalization in particular, these institutions are confronted with region-specific situations such as demographic change or the brain drain. We see our mission as researching the effects of transformation processes in different application areas and supporting regional players in coping with the associated tasks. Our research focuses on the following profile lines: