"TransferWelten" combines social impetus and technological innovations

With the "TransferWelten" project, DESY and the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg) are combining their expertise in the transfer sector to initiate new innovation processes between science, business, society, and politics that would not otherwise exist in conventional innovation environments. As an example, the project seeks to network basic research more closely with stakeholders from the fields of art, culture, and media and to advance collaborative innovations.

The aim of "TransferWelten" is to address issues, ideas, and business models from as many areas of society as possible and to use science to develop solutions to challenges in the Hamburg region. This combines DESY's basic research and HAW Hamburg's application-oriented research in order to create collaborative opportunities for new projects and initiatives.

The project opens up new opportunities for knowledge and technology transfer in order to make a greater impact on shaping social transformation. To this end, methods and approaches are being developed and tested under the joint umbrella of DESY and HAW Hamburg. Through the close networking of two different types of scientific institutions, new concepts for incorporating social innovation tools and methods can be developed in order to change the paradigm of both technological and social innovation.

Within the framework of the project, new participation and dialog formats for the design of transdisciplinary projects will be developed. The methods developed will then be made available to interested scientific institutions in the form of a "transfer catalog." The testing and implementation of initiatives and projects that want to tap into the potential of expanded transfer in terms of their social innovative strength will take place within the framework of a "transfer forum," with the aim of establishing them on a long-term, permanent basis.