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Credit: Fraunhofer Austria GmbH, Kick-Off-Meeting PRESENT

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Kick-off for PRESENT

With an innovative security-by-design approach, our DIGITAL and ROBOTICS researchers want to solve security problems of our time.
Xfold Imaging won Photonics 21 Innovation Award using our R2R technology
Our customer Xfold Imaging Oy from Finland was awarded the Photonics 21 Innovation Award at this year's Photonics 21 Annual Meeting on April 27th in…
Foto: Know-Center GmbH/Mempör, Kick-off Meeting zum Projekt InSpecScrap im Stahl- und Walzwerk Marienhütte Graz.
In the new project InSpecScrap - Intelligent Multispectral Characterization for Material Analysis in Scrap Yards - we are researching material…
Hola España - Research stay in Spain
Nihan Atak, a research assistant at the MATERIALS Institute, is currently completing a two-month research stay at one of our project partners in…
European Commission visits Weiz

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European Commission visits Weiz

On April 17, 2023, Project Adviser Susana Xará visited our MATERIALS Institute in Weiz as part of the H2020 project NextGenMicrofluidics, coordinated…
Credit: JOANNEUM RESERCH, Karl Radakovitz (JR), Franz Graf (JR), Rudolf Procházka (Powerdynax), Matuš Honek (Powerdynax) started a successful cooperation to install AKUT® in the Czech Republic's tunnels. (from left to right)
The Acoustic Tunnel Monitoring system AKUT® will go into operation in Brno and Prague before the end of 2023. The AKUT® systems in both tunnels are…
Christian Joachim Gruber. In the background: The Science Tower in Graz
Active Mobility, E-Scooter, and Carpools: A discussion with Franz Prettenthaler, the Director of the LIFE Institute, and Christian Joachim Gruber from…
Patrick Luley is head of the Digital Twin Lab
In the air, on the ground and on the road: the Digital Twin Lab creates digital twins with various measuring devices. In this way, reality can be…
Matthias Rüther leitet seit Anfang 2022 das Institut DIGITAL.
Matthias Rüther, Director of DIGITAL, in an interview about the digital mobility transition and the influence of the human factor on developments in…
WKO Styria in cooperation with DIH Süd, UNI Graz, Know Center and JOANNEUM RESEARCH invited to an exclusive digitization breakfast including workshop. Credit: DHI South
Werner Bailer from the DIGITAL Institute was present at the business breakfast of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce and was able to contribute his…
Closing event of the EU Twinning project
The official closing ceremony of the EU Twinning project “Supporting inter-sectoral collaboration  possibilities between Research and Industry” was…
“SmartSki” won OE-A-Best Publicly Funded Project Demonstrator Award
MATERIALS and its partners won the OE-A Innovation Competition Award at LOPEC 2023 for the Best Publicly Funded Demonstrator.
Stakeholder workshop on the effects of carbon pricing
With the final stakeholder workshop, the FARECarbon project has entered the finishing straight.
What do you think about the climate crisis? An exciting discussion in a multi-ethical round
As part of the CLEANcultures project, around 40 participants from different religions and worldviews discussed the responsibilities of human beings in…
3D reconstruction from Mastcam-Z camera stereo images of the Boston Knob Formation.
Images from Mars: A recent publication on their interpretation and 3D visualization.
Joanneum research health stress loc
A clinical study at Med Uni Graz investigates whether chronic stress, which already existed before the infection with the coronavirus, can lead to…
Workshop: Twinning Project

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Delegation visit from Georgia

A TWINNING project led by the POLICIES Institute supports countries and institutions in capacity building and process and policy development.
Credit: Credit: JOANNEUM RESEARCH, (from left to right) The delegation of SPIE in one of the ventilation caverns of the Gleinalm tunnel: Andreas Ogris (SPIE Dürr Austria), Jonathan Debeve (SPIE Belgium), Gerald Koenis (SPIE Nederland), Peter van Leeuwen (SPIE Nederland), Franz Graf (JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL).
A delegation from SPIE Netherlands and SPIE Belgium visited JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL from February 8 to 10 and learned about the tunnel monitoring…
successfully achieved the transition to MDR compliance

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MDR compliance

Joanneum Research HEALTH successfully achieved the transition to MDR (Medical Device Regulation) compliance.
Metabolic differences in cardiomyopathy
A study led by Dr. Michael Paulus and PD Dr. Alexander Dietl of the University of Regensburg together with the metabolomics team (DI Elmar Zügner,…
Heinz Mayer, Gaby Schaunig, Peter Kaiser and Matthias Rüther with drone and special vehicle.
Carinthia is investing one million euro in the development of the Digital Twin Lab at our DIGITAL Institute in Klagenfurt. Digital twins digitally map…
Climate policy and social justice
The results of the TransFAIR Styria project are now available online.
Dr Thomas Birngruber, head of the research group "Biomedical Tissue Monitoring" at the Institute HEALTH of JOANNEUM RESEARCH.
Developing the basis for a new drug to treat Fabry disease is the goal of the EU project Smart4Fabry. The HEALTH Institute of JOANNEUM RESEARCH is a…
JOANNEUM RESEARCH MATERIALS at nano tech 2023
From February 1-3, 2023 MATERIALS exhibited at the world's largest trade fair for nanotechnology, nano tech in Tokyo.
Taylor: KI has a face
TailoredMedia supports media archives in keywording video content and facilitates research for researchers and journalists. The research project is…
Franz Prettenthaler with the presenters
How does climate change affect health? That was the topic of an online event organized by the Health Tech Hub Styria. Franz Prettenthaler from LIFE…
Better Hard- and Software for the Energy Transition
From 18 to 19 January 2023, the kick-off of the Horizon Europe project OPENTUNITY took place in Valencia.
Credit: JOANNEUM RESEARCH
The AKUT® acoustic tunnel monitoring system could help make the Aubing tunnel near Munich even safer in the future. Franz Graf from the research group…
EU Project OPTIMAL officially started!
In October 2022, we had the pleasure of welcoming the partners of the EU project OPTIMAL at our Weiz site.
Skier on the slope
PyzoFlex® technology developed at the MATERIALS Institute provides data-based feedback and detects temperature and pressure changes as well as…
Group photo of the Quantum Software Engineering Workshop
With international participation, the first workshop on Quantum Software Engineering took place at the ICT Technology Park at the University of…
Novel technology to increase pot life of Silicones used in LED components
Researchers at the MATERIALS Institute developed a formulation for a Silicone elastomer that can lead to significantly reduced production costs for…
Credit: Lakeside Science & Technology Park GmbH / Gert Steinthaler
Starting next year, there will be a Digital Twin Lab at Lakeside Park Klagenfurt. The DIGITAL Institute is pleased about the expansion of the location…
Gruppenfoto des Konsortiums des ESRIUM Projekts vor der Zentrale der JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz
Road damage such as small cracks, ruts or potholes are potential safety risks and cause high maintenance costs for road operators every year. In a…
Digitalisation in viniculture

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Digitalisation in viniculture

Digitalisation has already found its way into viniculture. At the MATERIALS Institute, we develop sensor systems for the determination of glucose and…
The DIGITAL and MeteoSolutions team at the MTWE stand in Paris. Our team (f.l.t.r.) Jürgen Lang (MeteoSolutions), Harald Ganster (JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL) and Jean-Philippe Andreu (JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL)
After a three-year break from the MTWE - Meteorological Technology World Expo, JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL and its cooperation partner MeteoSolutions…
Researcher Marlies Schellnegger
Regular physical exercise can positively influence aging processes and slow them down. This is proven by a collaborative study of COREMED and Med Uni…
Representation of detected plants on a rail track.
Automated detection and control of vegetation on Austria's roads and railways is the goal of a project by the DIGITAL Institute, ASFINAG and ÖBB.
Optimized Clinical Dermal Open Flow Microperfusion Study Design to Demonstrate Bioequivalence Based on Cutaneous Pharmacokinetics
A grant awarded to JOANNEUM RESEARCH HEALTH focuses on optimizing clinical study designs and data analysis techniques that can support a comparative…
© FotoCRafie, Group photo of all award winners (from left to right): Karlheinz Gutjahr, Janik Deutscher (both Joanneum Research), Alexander Graf (Green Energy Lab), Lukas Prammer (Energie.Family), Dijana Janevska (ESA BIC / Science Park Graz), Christian Fuchs, Sophie Hoffmann (both BMK), Andreas Salentinig (ubicube), Sebastian Vogler (Beetle ForTech).
Congratulations to Janik Deutscher, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Martin Puhm and Andreas Wimmer from Intitut DIGITAL for winning the Space4Energy Hackathon…
Large satellite antenna in the UK in use for the lunar mission

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Artemis mission: News from the moon

The launch of NASA's Artemis I rocket is the first step toward bringing people to the moon again. A receiver developed at the DIGITAL Institute…
© DigiTrans GmbH
As part of the testEPS research project, experts from the DIGITAL Institute were invited to create a spatial digital twin of the DigiTrans test track…
Patrick Luley and Stefan Ladstätter present a precise digital twin for the road traffic area at the C ITS trade fair
The ATTC invited experts from research and development as well as road operators and representatives of public administration to the ASFINAG site in…
Panoramic view over the Seetaler Alpe, Photo: Günther Obertaxer
Disruptions in the field of navigation have been a major issue for years and are extremely critical in both the military and civilian sectors. Jamming…
Group photo of the expert panel during the tour of the Arlberg tunnel, participants from left to right: Marco Tietze - Funkwerk AG, Bruno Klimmer - ASFINAG, Helmut Kern - Aquasys Technik GmbH, Benjamin Zimmermann, Autobahn GmbH, Thomas Schuh, Autobahn GmbH, Rene Schmetz, Autobahn GmbH, Franz Graf - JOANNEUM RESEARCH
In the night from 4 October to 5 October 2022, the Arlberg Tunnel was closed for maintenance work. Representatives of the German Autobahn GmbH took…
New European project Invest4Nature to boost investments in nature-based solutions
15 European organisations meet in Graz and partner up to build a market for nature-based solutions
Group photo of the kick-off participants of the new forest monitoring project "AI-Driven Forest Health Risk Indicator" - a cooperation of JOANNEUM RESEARCH DIGITAL, BeetleForTech and ZAMG.

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How healthy are our forests?

The project team of the research group "Remote Sensing and Geoinformation" at the DIGITAL Institute is investigating this question in the new FFG…
2022 Gender Equality Survey in non-university scientific and technical research
COVID-19 does not lead to a decline in women's participation in non-university research
dOFM Partnership

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Call for partnership

JOANNEUM RESEARCH HEALTH is seeking a limited number of clinical partners to adopt the Clinical Dermal Open Flow Microperfusion ( dOFM™) development…
EMERGE: 2nd Call for Proposals launched!
Free-of-charge access for research & technology organizations, industry and small-medium enterprises to develop projects on sustainable flexible…