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IU Research Incubator

A place to incubate ideas

The IU Research Incubators are institutionalised kick-off funds and are aimed at researchers who want to develop and deepen a research idea and need time and resources to do so in order to advance major publications, product developments or third-party funding proposals. 

IMA-XR

A New AI System for Large-Scale Analysis of Attitudes, Sentiments and Consumption Trends in the Sports Sector

  • Professors involved:
    Bertram Taetz
    Gabriele-Bleser Taetz
    Janki Dodiya
    Armin Grasnick

  • Duration: 10/2025 –09/2027

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Fan Trend Tracker

A New AI System for Large-Scale Analysis of Attitudes, Sentiments and Consumption Trends in the Sports Sector

  • Professors involved:
    Prof. Dr. Francisco Tigre Moura
    Prof. Dr. Visieu Lac

  • Duration: 2 years

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UMUKITA

Study on everyday musical behaviour in child day care centres

  • Professors involved:
    Prof. Dr phil. Rebecca Voss
    Prof. Dr Immanuel Ulrich

  • Duration: 01.07.2025 - 30.06.2027

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M·E·T·A·S

Measures for Energy Transition with Artificial Societies

  • Professors involved:
    Prof. Dr. Maik Günther
    Prof. Dr. Guido Bayard

  • Duration: 2025 – 2027

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FiBiSen

Financial education of senior citizens

  • Professors involved:
    Prof. Dr Johannes Treu
    Prof. Dr Stephan Otto
    Prof. Dr Okka Zimmermann

  • Duration: 10/2025 – 09/2027

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Project VR Sono

Boost your ultrasound-skills using Virtual Reality

  • Professors involved:
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armin Grasnick
    Prof. Dr. Christian Erker
    Dr. Sheikh Radiah Rahim Rivu
    Dr.-Ing. Ali Mehmood Khan

  • Duration: 10/2025 – 10/2027

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Value attitudes and payment behaviour

Creation of a database for the integration of international economic and economic-psychological factors

  • Professors involved:
    Prof. Dr Julia Pitters
    Prof. Dr Max Pumperla
    Prof. Dr Franz Seitz

  • Duration: 2 years

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DIGITASA

Pulse survey on digitalisation (in) social work from the perspective of practice

  • Professors involved:

    Prof. Dr Jakob Tetens

    Prof. Dr Juliane Wahren

    Prof.in Dr Annemarie Matthies

    Prof. Dr Jan Sailer

  • Duration: 04/2025 - 03/2027

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AI-Buddy Luna

Determining the needs and requirements of children and adolescents for an AI chatbot in health prevention - using the example of the Healthyfy platform

  • Professors involved:
    Laura-Maria Altendorfer
    Olaf Langhardt

  • Duration: 01.01.2025 to 31.12.2026

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ESSTAI

Strengthening sales and service teams: AI training in times of skills shortages

  • Professors involved:
    Philipp Diebold
    Cecile Kornmann

  • Duration: 2 years

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UMASC 4 BioMed

Universal Multimodal Actuator Sensor Chip (UMASC) for biomedical applications

  • Involved Professors:
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moustafa Nawito
    Prof. Dr. med. Amani Mahmoud Nawito

  • Duration: 01.10.2024 - 30.09.2026

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AFMoS

Adaptive Radio Channel Modelling of Wireless Condition Monitoring Systems

  • Involved Professors:
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf C. Haenssler, PhD
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kamel Haddadi

  • Duration: 2 years

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AFMoS

Adaptive Radio Channel Modelling of Wireless Condition Monitoring Systems

  • Involved Professors:
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olaf C. Haenssler, PhD
    Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kamel Haddadi

  • Duration: 2 years

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RRiL

Representation of Law in Logic for the Automation of Legal Norms

  • Involved Professors: Prof. Dr. Ralf Kneuper ralf.kneuper@iu.org Prof. Dr. Petra Beenken petra.beenken@iu.org Prof. Dr. Ulrich John ulrich.john@iu.org Prof. Dr. TianXiang Lu tianxiang.lu@iu.org

  • Duration: 07/2024 – 06/2026

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AStra

At home on the street: Investigating the lives and worlds of homeless young people in Germany

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Impression Management through Synthetic and Digital Human Avatars

Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Online Education

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hellmann, Prof. Dr. Jessica Hastenteufel, Dr. Lawrence Ang, Dr. Suresh Sood, Prof. Dr. Bernd Joers, Dr. Polina Khrennikova

  • Duration: 2024

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KiBiScH

Childhood educators in all-day education and care - studies on the pedagogical support of children aged 6-12 in schools and after-school care centres

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AMO

Automatic Music Orchestration with Machine Learning/AI

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KIDZ

AI-supported detection of cyber attacks (especially zero-day exploits) on IT infrastructures

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Alexander Lawall, alexander.lawall@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Thomas Zöller, thomas.zoeller@iu.org

  • Duration: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2026

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Phantomatrix

Machine learning-based prediction of physiological reactions in virtual reality environments

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Anne Schwerk, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Armin Grasnick, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bolz, Prof. Dr. Stephan De La Rosa

  • Duration: 01.09.2023 - 31.08.2025

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AI Ethics

Behavioral Implications of machine-learning algorithms in compliance systems

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Sascha Behnk, Prof. Dr. Frank Passing

  • Durations: 01.04.2023 – 31.03.2025

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School transitions and "science anxiety"

Mindfulness as a possible answer to the problem constellation "Science Anxiety" & school transitions in times of a pandemic

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Smart Factory Incubator

Optimal implementation in practice of digital transformation in production and related service areas

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Alexander Lawall, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Magnus, Prof. Dr. Moritz Venschott, Prof. Dr. Ellena Werning

  • Contact: smart.factory@iu.org

  • Duration: 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2025

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Funding projects for ecologically enhancing agroforestry systems with Security Tokens (STS)

Economic Feasibility Study of the HedgeToken Project

  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Franz Isselstein, hedgetoken@iu.org

  • Duration: 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2025

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Measurement invariance of survey instruments & gender identity and health

A project on the comparability of international surveys and the relationship between gender identity and health

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Evaluation of Component Properties

Saving resources through angle-resolved, function-oriented evaluation of component properties

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Matthias Eifler M.B.A. matthias.eifler@iu.org, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seewig, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Barbara Linke, Dipl.-Chem. Boris Brodmann

  • Duration: 01.07.2022-30.09.2023

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Elementary Education and Racism (ELERA)

Exploratory findings and foundations for research on families' experiences of racism for exploitation in early childhood education

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Organisational Learning of Practical Organisations (OLPID)

Organisational Learning of Practical Organisations in Dual Studies (OLPiD)

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Laser-Accelerated Ion Beams and Machine Learning Methods

Scaling of laser-accelerated ion beams and use of machine learning methods in applications in tumour therapy, material analysis and inertial fusion

Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Florian Wasser florian.wasser@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Kristina Schaaff kristina.schaaff@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Christian Müller-Kett christian.mueller-kett@iu.org, Prof. Dr. Thomas Zöller thomas.zoeller@iu.org

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Young Women in STEM

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EGUBE

Parents well accompanied - How do parents experience the path to therapeutic care for their children? Qualitative case explorations using examples of speech therapy and occupational therapy care for children of kindergarten age.

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AI-Patient IPL

Development of AI-based patient:ing models for interprofessional learning in health care curricula

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Katharina Rädel-Ablass, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schlick, Prof. Dr. Claudia Miersch, Prof. Dr. Sandra Pahr-Hosbach, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schliz, Prof. Dr. Hanna Schwendemann, Prof. Dr. Stephanie Rupp, Prof. Dr. Marion Roddewig,

  • Duration: 01.09.2023 until 31.08.2025

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AI-KI-DO

AI systems in creative practice and teaching

  • Contact persons: Prof. Jörg Burbach, Marion Plank, Nadine Trautzsch, André Meyer

  • Duration: 01.08.2023 until 31.01.2025

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Digital start-up ecosystem

Transformation of a local start-up ecosystem into the digital one in the context of IU

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Mirko Bendig, Prof. 博士 (PhD) Lena Bernhofer, Prof. Dr. Esin Bozyazi, Prof. Dr. Michael Broens, Prof. Dr. Lars Meinecke, Chair of Medical Technology

  • Duration: 15.09.2023 until 15.09.2024

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How Human is generative KI?

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kristina Schaaff, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tim Schlippe

  • Duration: 01.10.2023 until 30.09.2025

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Digital Legislation

Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies for planning laws

  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Heiko Krüger

  • Duration: 01.09.2023 until 31.11.2024

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The sustainable transformation

Examining sustainability and ESG as drivers for business success

  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Christian Kroll

  • Duration: 01.10.2023 until 30.09.2025

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Datenorientierte Regelung

Investigation and validation of Koopman-based approaches

  • Contact person: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Palis

  • Duration: 01.02.2023 – 31.01.2025

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D&I Reifegradmodell

Development of a maturity model for more diversity & inclusion in companies in Germany - a joint project with Charta der Vielfalt e.V.

  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Katharina-Maria Rehfeld, Prof. Dr. Sonja Würtemberger

  • Duration: 01.04.2024 until probably 31.03.2025

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Vision

Virtual Interactive Simulation vw. Online and non-tech coaching

  • Contact person: Prof. Dr. Ellena Werning

  • Duration: 01.03.2024 -28.02.2026

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DigiLearn

DigiLearn: How students learn in distance learning programmes

  • Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Immanuel Ulrich, Prof. Dr. Christina Buschle, Prof. Dr. Mario Herrmann

  • Duration: 01.03.2024 - 28.02.2026

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Awards, accreditations and certifications

IU Internationale Hochschule ist seit 1999 eine staatlich anerkannte HochschuleIU Internationale Hochschule ist vom Wissenschaftsrat akkreditiertIU Internationale Hochschule ist zugelassen für FernunterrichtIU Internationale Hochschule erhält beim StudyCheck-Award 2023 die Auszeichnung „Top Hochschule in Deutschland“