Research and Transfer
Ostfalia is investing more than €500,000 from its own funds.
The Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences can invest in research infrastructure in the coming years. The state of Lower Saxony has agreed to fund Ostfalia from the ERDF and state funds, for research infrastructure amounting to €4,566,600. Ostfalia is investing €507,400 in the new research infrastructure from its own funds.
The money will be used for the construction of a new research building, and for large-scale research equipment in Wolfenbüttel.
The planned infrastructure measures include a research building at the Wolfenbüttel site, called the "Open Mobility Lab – Intelligent Systems for Mobility". Flexibly usable research areas will be made available for the implementation of application-oriented research projects into the research foci of "Intelligent systems for energy and mobility", "Automotive engineering, plastics and material sciences" and "Renewable energy and resource efficiency".
The Ostfalia researchers, in close cooperation with companies from the region, are looking (in a cross-disciplinary manner) at the innovation field of mobility, which will significantly shape the future of the regional economy. From research through to exploitation: innovative research and innovation projects will be developed, and implemented in the research building through the existing, successful research structures of the participating faculties of the university, in cooperation with companies from the region.
The planned research activities are an essential part of the long-term research strategy and a profile-building element for Ostfalia. It will achieve a long-term strengthening of the regional economic system and the direct involvement of companies from the region, as well as the implementation of operational and strategic objectives from the regional strategy.
In addition to the research building, there will be investment in large-scale research equipment. A vehicle test stand for integrated, fully-active, mechanical vehicle systems (€750,000) will thus be available for research purposes at Ostfalia, as well as an EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) absorption chamber (€350,000), a scanning electron microscope with FE cathode and EDX analysis (€450,000), and a laser-sintering system (€374,000).
The research building is expected to be completed by 2020. Some of the research equipment (scanning electron microscope and laser-sintering system), will however be ready to use for research purposes by 2018.
Please contact Katrin Schütrumpf for more information.
