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Ongoing Projects (Selection)
On this website you find a selection of current on-going projetcs. About further projects you can inform at the Websites of our Chairs informieren.
EU Projects
Objective:
CCI4EU is a European initiative aiming to help Member States and Associated Countries to rethink the cancer culture by funding a more equitable transfer of knowledge to everyone.
55 Partners from 27 European Member States and 5 Associate Countries work together to develop recommendations on how to structure future capacity building projects and how to develop and scale up National / Regional Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures.
Funding:
Horizon Europe Mission Cancer
Contact:
Research Group Digital Health
Dr. Peggy Richter:
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Federal Projects
Objective:
How can people in Dresden address their concerns and requests quickly and easily to the city administration? And how will the administration itself be set up in the future to process them in a targeted manner and efficiently? To answer these questions, the state capital of Dresden and the TUD Dresden University of Technology are investing around 19 million euros and developing a joint smart city concept. Since 2019, the Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building has been funding a total of 73 municipalities and their development into smart cities under the guiding theme "Together out of the crisis: Space for the future".
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB)
Contact:
Chair of Business Information Systems, esp. Business Engineering
Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener
Chair of Business Information Systems, esp. Information Systems in Industry and Trade
Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer
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Objective:
The national hydrogen strategy stresses the role of hydrogen in the energy system decarbonization. Various studies show that the production of green hydrogen in Germany will only be economical with high shares of electricity from renewable energy resources or very high CO2 prices. However, from the viewpoint of the energy system, the production of hydrogen can be beneficial to support power grid balancing and to make use of existing gas infrastructure. The necessary development and conversion of the infrastructure should therefore already be researched and considered today.
Funding:
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Energy Economics
Prof. Dr. Dominik Möst
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Objective:
The Medical Informatics Hub in Saxony - MiHUBx started in September 2021 as one of six regional hubs of digital medical infrastructure in Germany (Digital Progress Hubs Health). The mission of the progress hubs is to extend the pioneering work of the Medical Informatics Initiative on digitization in medicine from university hospitals into all areas of the healthcare system, thus also integrating general practitioners, office-based specialists, regional hospitals or rehabilitation and care facilities.
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Contact:
Research group Digital Health
Dr. Hannes Schlieter
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Objective:
Future power generation will be characterized by a significantly higher share of renewables with fluctuating and uncertain characteristics on different time scales. In addition, volatility and uncertainty on the demand side will increase in view of the much higher penetration of decentralized electrical consumers, such as electrically powered heating systems and electric vehicles. In such a scenario, there is a need for greater integration of technologies and solutions that can help create buffer capacity to balance fluctuations in electricity demand and supply. Coupling of energy sectors (i.e. gas, heat, and electricity) offers opportunities to absorb surplus electrical energy from renewable energy sources, store it, and provide back-up supply during periods of high demand as well as high prices, thus serving as an additional source of flexibility and security in energy systems.
In order to make the full potential of sector coupling usable in various applications, especially to achieve the associated sustainability goals, it is necessary to analyze the above challenges holistically and identify possible solutions. A holistic methodology evaluates both the technical and economic aspects of the sector-coupled energy system, and by taking sustainability into account, also the societal or society-relevant impacts.
Funding:
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Energy Economics
Hannes Hobbie ()
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Objective:
The WIR-V1.1 joint project is dedicated to the localization, collection and sorting of fibrous waste from different sectors and locations of origin. A circular logistical and digitally supported collection system is being designed, implemented and established, whereby the recycling of fiber-containing waste or recyclable materials is initiated and developed with special consideration of new business models. WIR-V1.1 thus makes an essential contribution to the consolidation of fiber-containing material flows, which will thus represent an economic relevance in the "Elbe Valley Saxony" region for the first time.
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Logistics
Prof. Dr. Rainer Lasch
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Objective:
To help health authorities assess their digital maturity and plan their digitalization strategy, a maturity model for the digitalization of health authorities has already been developed. The EvalDiGe project aims to scientifically evaluate the current status and changes in the digital maturity of public health departments on an ongoing basis during the project period. The initially developed maturity model serves as the basis for the measurement. The evaluation also aims to continuously develop the maturity model further. To this end, an exchange between the health authorities regarding their experiences with the digitization measures is to be facilitated and recommendations for action for the individual health authorities are to be derived.
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Health
Contact:
Research Group Digital Health
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Projects of the Free State of Saxony
Objective:
The focus of the inCare project is the digital implementation of an integrated, geriatric stroke patient pathway. This will be used for prevention, identification and needs-based, cross-sectoral, coordinated care of geriatric patients who have a high risk of falling down. For this purpose, a model solution is to be created for the identification of the complex symptoms of such geriatric patiens. This will improve adherence to therapy and guideline compatibility, as well as the realization of needs-based information transfer. In addition to service providers, this technological basis should enable patients to be involved in the patient pathway and thus also create a value-added application for the future telematics infrastructure. For the service providers involved (general practitioners, nursing, specialists), an informational foundation will also be created, which will enable improved coordination and, in particular, better evaluation of care. In this context, existing documentation systems will be integrated into the entire patient pathway. An integrated pathway evaluation system will be implemented as part of an "intelligent" electronic health record, and the evaluation will be processed. In addition to structured and semantically defined progress documentations, this electronic health record will also provide comparative information that can be obtained on the basis of the evaluation of similar or identical care processes using Big Data approaches. Thus, the aim is to extend the documentation, which is in any case necessary, and evaluate and process cross-treatment primary and secondary data for patients and service providers using artificial intelligence technology.
Funding:
Free State of Saxony
Contact:
Research Group Digital Health
Dr. Hannes Schlieter ()
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Objective:
The therapy of chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) follows extremely complex treatment plans, which must be continuously adapted. In order to enable individualized management during the course of the disease, MS patients must first be precisely characterized. For this purpose, however, data from diagnosis, therapy and monitoring must be continuously recorded (ideally digitally) in the form of standardized parameters. A meaningful evaluation and visualization of these constantly growing multidimensional data volumes is only possible with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
The present project DigiPhenoMS therefore focuses on the conception and realization of an IT system for the data-driven characterization of patient types (phenotyping) and individualization of patient pathways. DigiPhenoMS benefits from research and development results of the projects IBMS and QPATH4MS .
Using established machine learning methods, multidimensional data sets from MS care are used to adaptively create, visualize and continuously optimize patient phenotypes and individual patient pathways, thus enabling personalized care in the sense of precision medicine.
Funding:
eHealthSax
Contact:
Forschungsgruppe Digital Health
Dr. Hannes Schlieter ()
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Objective:
Patients accepting their therapies and medical decisions without asking questions are increasingly a phenomenon of the past. Patients are more aware of the advantages of being actively involved in the treatment process.
The QPATH4MS project aims to integrate a multi-dimensional quality management concept for multiple sclerosis care, which not only includes the medical perspective, but also that of the patient, and relies on digital solutions. The aim of this project is to improve the quality of medical care and make it sustainable for the future. The hub for QPATH4MS is the Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Department of Neurology at the Dresden University Hospital that treats around 1,000 patients per month.
Funding:
European Union, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Contact:
Research Group Digital Health
Dr. Hannes Schlieter
Further information:
Objective:
Intensive care units (ICUs) play a key role in the health care system in providing care for critically ill people. Technical and economic factors limit the bed capacity in ICUs, which can lead to bottlenecks in the provision of beds. In order to nevertheless provide the best possible care for newly arriving critical patients, intensive care physicians are therefore confronted with the decision as to which patient can be transferred to a lower-level ward for treatment.
Addressing this challenge, a joint research project with the University Hospital of Dresden started at the beginning of March as part of the eHealthSax funding programme for digitalisation projects in the health sector. The aim is to develop an intelligent transfer management for data-driven recommendation of transfers of intensive care patients (INTEVI). Building on the results of the predecessor project prioICare, artificial intelligence methods are to help determine a classification of intensive care patients based on current and past clinical data with regard to their transferability.
Funding:
Free State of Saxony
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher ()
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Objective:
Rail transport occupies a central position in the public transport system. It plays an essential role in the mobility of people and the transport of goods. The German government has decided to selectively expand passenger and freight transport to strengthen this role further. As part of this initiative, Deutsche Bahn plans to invest around 156 billion euros by 2030 to modernize and expand the rail network.
This goal poses particular challenges for rail construction companies. They have to meet this demand with a limited number of employees and, in some cases, highly specialized construction machinery. Optimal planning of these resources can contribute to achieving the desired goals.
In cooperation with the project partner SaxMS, the "OptRail" project aims to develop and implement an optimization procedure for green and integrated planning in railroad construction and freight transport. Initially, the focus is on machine planning and shift allocation in railroad construction. The developed procedures will then be extended to freight transport to address the challenges of cyclic circulation planning and personnel scheduling. Based on these developed procedures, machine and personnel planning is integrated, focusing on environment-oriented planning.
Funding:
Free State of Saxony
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher ()
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DFG Projects
Objective:
The overarching goal of the research project AlgoWork is to examine the conceptual nature and worker-level implications of algorithmic control (AC), broadly defined as the managerial use of sophisticated algorithms along with advanced information technology (IT) as a means to align worker behaviors with organizational objectives. As such, AC is distinct from traditional, human-based control because the source of control originates from algorithms and the delivery of control is provided by IT interfaces. While AC is increasingly employed in both platform-based and traditional organizations and across low-skill and high-skill work contexts, it remains underexplored in terms of its defining characteristics and often-ambivalent implications for workers. For example, existing control research in information systems (IS) has almost exclusively focused on studying human-based control relationships in different IT contexts (e.g., IT projects), thereby largely neglecting the role of IT within managerial control processes. Consequently, there is a practically and scientifically relevant need to study how the use of AC affects individual workers and their day-to-day work behaviors.
Funding:
DFG
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Martin Wiener, Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Business Engineering
Further information:
Brief description:
The stability of national economies and labor markets has been shaken by several challenges in recent years. The project examines how labor markets in Central Europe are coping with these challenges and how they are changing as a result.
- First, the project examines the effectiveness of policy measures to mitigate the economic impact of the Corona pandemic on firms and workers.
- Second, we analyze the long-term consequences of the sharp increase in home office work on the subsequent labor market trajectories and further training decisions of affected individuals.
- Third, we investigate the impact of the Ukrainian refugee wave on the domestic labor force in several affected countries (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia).
Funding:
DFG
Contact:
Chair of Quantitative Methods, esp. Econometrics
Prof. Dr. Kamila Cygan-Rehm:
Further information:
Brief description:
The project aims to develop a new supply chain framework that integrates mathematical optimization models for planning modular production networks and locations. It addresses the challenge of matching uncertain demand and supply with the flexible capacities of production and logistics in order to fully exploit the potential of modular production concepts.
In particular, mathematical optimization models for integrated location and route planning in modular production networks (location routing) as well as facility layout problems for modular production sites are developed, which take into account the specific requirements of modular production concepts. This requires extensive extensions to existing planning models and solution methods.
Contact person:
Junior Professorship for Business Administration, esp. Management Science
Tristan Becker:
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Objective:
Existing constructions from concrete or steel reinforced concrete generally have a low resistance to short-term dynamic stresses, such as impact, detonation or earthquakes. The central objective of the graduate school is to make exsting buildings and structures more resistant by the application of flat, thin-layer reinforcements. By the use of new mineral-bound composites, people's safety and important infrastructure can be significantly enhanced. The developed principles will furthermore enable the economic and ecological building of new structures, that will be highly resistant to impact stresses.
The Chair of Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting supervises the three-year dissertation project „C2: Analysis and assessment of the sustainability and resilience of reinforcement methods with new composites“. The aim of the project is to develop an assessment concept that already takes the research and development phase into account through a sustainability and resilience assessment and results in more resilient and more sustainable composite materials. The concept aims to take technical, financial, societal and ecological influencing parameters into account and to enable quantitative prognoses and scenarios.
Funding:
DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact:
Chair of Sustainability Management und Environmental Accounting
Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther:
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Industrial Projects / Further Projects
Objective:
Hydrogen as a secondary energy carrier does not per se ensure low greenhouse gas emissions or even low-loss energy cycles. The highly reactive substance also places high demands on safe processing. The need for research is therefore high and acute. The 4th Boysen-TU Dresden-Research Training Group will make a decisive contribution to satisfying it. It is structured in four clusters, which integrate 16 doctoral projects and corresponding scientists and disciplines from the fields of natural, technical, social and medical sciences. The clusters each deal with a sub-task within the overall project of making the hydrogen economy a strategic element of a future GreenGas deal.
Cluster E: Hydrogen imports from the MENA region compared to hydrogen production in Germany
Cluster G: Electrocatalysts for a competitive hydrogen economy
Cluster H: Techno-economic modeling of hydrogen value networks
Financing:
Friedrich und Elisabeth Boysen-Stiftung and Technische Universität Dresden
Contact:
Cluster E: Prof. Dr. Dominik Möst, Chair of Business Administration, esp. Energy Economics
Cluster F.: Prof. Dr. Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva, Junior Professorship in Sustainability Assessment and Policy
Cluster H: Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher, Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management and Prod. Dr. Tristan Becker, Junior Professorship in Business Administration, esp. Management Science
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Objective:
The project aims to establish an international interdisciplinary collaboration between Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and King's College London (KCL) on the topics of wellbeing and resilience competency development. Our project’s goals are twofold: to provide in-depth research-based insights into the development of resilience as a competency for current and future professionals and to adapt and develop novel learning approaches that can be used as interventions to promote and enhance both competency and wellbeing among different students of different subjects and in different settings (e.g., face to face and online settings). In this sense, we aim to bridge research on education, learning, psychology and neuroscience to strengthen our interdisciplinary research cooperation and to provide young researchers and students with opportunities for exchange in both academia and research.
Our project will commence with research on implementing a collaborative teaching programme focused on developing competency in resilience and wellbeing. Due to current challenges and social distancing urged by COVID-19, our partner at KCL designed a novel online coaching programme, titled “Time to Thrive”, which we plan to offer to university students at TUD. The project’s results will be examined and evaluated by the international research group, including students in both institutions.
The research group also plans to enhance cooperation on additional related topics with other partners within our universities.
Websites:
zur Website der Professur
Institutional Project Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Fürstenau
Project Coordinator:
Ianina Scheuch
Project Staff:
Caroline Muss
Carolin Schneider
Project Partners:
King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)
- Dr. Patricia A. Zunszain
- Dr. Gisele Pereira Dias
- Dr. Juliet Foster
Funding:
TransCampus Funding Programme
Objective:
Existing powerful operations research methods enable the creation of highly efficient plans for deploying personnel and vehicles in rail transport. In the implementation, however, delays and breakdowns mean that the plans can often not be executed as intended. To meet this challenge, the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management together with the partners from Vienna, develops methods to design schedules for traction units and shift schedules for train crews in such a way that they are efficient and reliable at the same time. This is to be made possible by intelligent interaction between optimization and simulation. he project partners contribute their expertise in the field of robust planning (University of Vienna), simulation of railroad systems (dwh GmbH), as well as shift and vehicle scheduling methods (Chair of Industrial Management, TU Dresden). At the same time, ÖBB-Produktion Gesellschaft mbH accompanies the project as a practical partner.
Funding:
FFG
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management
Further Information:
Objective:
The research project is located at the interface between business research, economics and law. The aim is to determine factual problems and requirements for data protection that arise from the innovative digital business model of crowd and gig working platforms. As part of the project, a current market overview of German, US and Chinese platform providers will be created. A systematic analysis of the data protection declarations of the platform companies as well as participatory observations at selected portals is used to research how personal data of crowd and gig workers is handled in Germany, the USA and China. In the next step, company practices are evaluated on the basis of internationally agreed data protection goals (e.g. transparency, data economy). On the basis of the findings, policy proposals for the further development of data protection in platform work processes are developed, which are aimed in particular at the European regulatory level.
Funding:
Hans Böckler Foundation
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Finance and Financial Technology
Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf ()
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Objective:
In a joint project between the TU Dresden and TU Munich the research team aims to investigate the risks associated with the use of the Ethereum blockchain. Specifically, it is about the effects of cybercrime on the behavior of investors: On the one hand, the project is investigating how investor behavior changes after they have become victims of fraud. On the other hand, the project deals with the question of whether fraudsters can be identified using blockchain data.
Funding:
FIRM Society for Risk Management and Regulation e.V.
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Finance and Financial Technology
Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf
Further information:
Objective:
The Dresden district heating network comprises numerous structural facilities. These are regularly monitored and inspected in order to reliably assess the condition of the network and derive repair measures and renewal strategies.
The type and condition of a structure influence the cycle of the recurring condition inspection. Due to the size of the network and the dynamics resulting from changing conditions, planning the inspections is complex.
Together with the project partner SachsenEnergie, the "WANDA - WaermeNetz Dresden Anlageninspektionsplanung" project aims to analyse the overall inspection process and examine the potential for optimization. In the first phase of the project, the current planning and inspection processes will be documented and processed. Particular attention will be paid to evaluating the underlying guidelines and standards and analysing the existing data structures. The second phase of the project will then identify potential improvements to the overall process.
Funding:
Contract research, SachsenEnergie
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher