“This year we were searching for extraordinary concepts with the potential to make a practical contribution to enhancing industrial working life. With the ‘Forum Junge Spitzenforschung’, we want to support early-career researchers and their creative methods that assist business establish smart, sustainable, and efficient services,” said Dr. Ronald Kriedel, Head of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Transfer (CET) at TU Dortmund University and of TU concept GmbH. “In addition to the prize, the CET supports young researchers on their journey– with the objective of assisting them bring their ideas into useful application.”
A jury of organization specialists examined the sent concepts according to different requirements such as the useful significance of the research, innovation content, financial or societal potential, and expediency. Members of the jury were: Dr. Dagmar Dirzus (KROHNE Messtechnik GmbH), Dr. Heinrich Dornbusch (PROvendis GmbH), Wulf-Christan Ehrich (Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Market), Philippa Köhnk (BRYCK), Dr. Rainer Schick (Lachmann & Rink GmbH), and Johannes Velling (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Market, Environment Action and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia). The event adds to the Ruhr Development Lab, in which TU Dortmund University and Ruhr-University Bochum have signed up with forces as part of the Excellence Strategy. They work together carefully on topics that help developing a future-proof and durable society– and this finds concrete application at the Online Forum Junge Spitzenforschung.
1st place: Wireless networks for market
In market, procedures are becoming ever more digital. Self-governing transport cars, mobile robotics, and flexible production systems count on stable and high-performance cordless connections. The preparation and operation of industrial school networks is technically demanding, specifically in complicated production environments, and often not economically effective. With PANGOLIN Networks, Stefan Böcker, Christian Arendt, Melina Geis, and Simon Häger presented an idea for an integrated network assistance service for commercial cordless networks that is all at once high-performing, highly offered, sustainable, and resource-efficient. For this they were granted first place and got a prize of 12,000 euros. “We are very delighted about the award,” said Stefan Böcker. “It is excellent that, in this setting, we receive feedback from market on our research study which the topic matters beyond science for industry as well.” Melina Geis includes: “We now wish to press our idea forward and take a look at whether our research findings can be developed into a spin-off.”
Second location: Self-governing radio for inland navigation