Projects
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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 in the Research Information System of TUD and at the Websites of our Chairs informieren.
EU Projects
Objective:
To reduce the risk of a relapse of a serious acute illness in the old age an active reorientation of the lifestyle is often necessary, motivated through the affected person. An international research team investigates in the EU-funded project "vCare - Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly" how a bespoke shift from a rehabilitation phase to the home environment can be realised by means of an intelligent linking of health information, details concerning the living environment and the continuous interaction with the affected persons.
One out of six people in the EU has a disability, usually caused by an acute episode or a chronic disease (i.e., heart disease, heart attack, stroke, Parkinson disease). Providing a suitable rehabilitation is the main issue for people, especially at advanced age, as it helps people to live independently and enhance their Quality of Life. Virtual Coaches can help these patients to proceed with a personalized rehabilitation that complies to age-related conditions, as the key technology for empowering patients through the enhancement of the adherence to the care plan and the risk prevention. The vCare project addresses two major shortcomings of the status quo: a participatory design driven by users’ needs and the personalization of care pathways enabled by technology. The results of vCare shall stimulate the European Healthcare & ICT sector for innovations in the field of integrated care. In sum, vCare will contribute to the EU goal to increase healthy life years of Europeans by two until 2020.
Funding:
European Union, HORIZON 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant Agreement No. 769907
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Systems Engineering
Dr. Hannes Schlieter:
Further Information:
Objective:
The VALEU-X project aims to add a significant value to the teaching process in Albania by empowering academic staff with contemporary teaching competencies. It offers Albanian HEIs a chance to explore, implement, and disseminate Internationalisation at Home practices to increase their students’ and staff exposure to a European and international academic, economic, and societal context.
Funding:
ERASMUS+ Key Action 2
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Information Management
Mattis Altmann
Further Information:
Objective:
The increasing socio-demographic change is causing an elder population in Europe. There is a lack of resources to maintain this shift in European Health Systems, which causes an inevitable unsustainability of the health systems. At the same time, stakeholders in the healthcare sector are fragmented. Doctors have problems that companies cannot solve while patients are affected by this situation. Since there are often no adequate ways of integrated and home care, treatment usually ends in the hospital. In terms of technology, there are no standards for the provision of IoT services in the health and care sector. In connection with the lack of interoperability in this sector, it is quite complex to connect the needs of the different actors and to build on them.
As part of the HORIZON 2020 program, the GATEKEEPER project, financed with 21.3 million Euros, was officially started on October 25 in Madrid. The initiative is coordinated by Medtronic Ibérica and comprises 43 partners, which are spread across health technology companies, research institutes or large universities, healthcare providers and networks for technological innovations. During a 42-month work plan, the project will be expanded to provide solutions involving around 40,000 older citizens on the supply and demand side (authorities, institutions, companies, associations, universities) in 8 regional communities from 7 EU member states are.
Financing:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 857223.
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Systems Engineering
Dr. Kai Gand
Further Information:
Website of the chair
Project website: https://www.gatekeeper-project.eu/
Objective:
The chair of Business Management, especially Industrial Management is pleased to start work on the EU project ONEforest in June. Together with 18 project partners from eight countries, the chair will be involved in conducting research for a project duration of three years. Funding for the overall project of around €5.2 million is provided by the European research program Horizon 2020.
The project aims to develop a multi-criteria decision support system that will enable different stakeholders in forestry to make long-term strategic decisions according to individual objectives. Forest owners will be able to assess which way of forest management is advantageous under current and future ecological and economic conditions. The Chair of Industrial Management is particularly responsible for the development of the problem-specific mathematical model and the development of a solution algorithm for the multi-criteria decision problem. At the end of the project duration, a prototype of the decision support system is going to be made available as an executable file to decision makers from practice.
Funding:
European Union, Horizon 2020.
Contact:
Chair of Business Management, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher ()
Further Information:
Objective:
In response to the need for increased expertise and broader participation in digital sustainability skills, DIGI-Step aims to enhance the digital literacy of university lecturers in the delivery of sustainable development courses. The project will create a sustainable development e-learning (SDEL) course to support students who wish to enrich their current degree program with sustainable development instructional components not normally offered as part of their existing degree program.
Funding:
Erasmus+
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting
Prof. Dr. Remmer Sassen
Further Information:
Federal Projects
Objective:
This research project is funded under the joint call on smart water management for a sustainable society and brings together 11 academic institutions from 5 European countries and Japan. The aim of the project is to promote cooperation between these two geographical regions on smart urban water reuse uptake under a private public partnership scheme.
Water availability is becoming a growing challenge in the urban systems and this could be magnified by extensive industrial activities. Sustainability of cities and communities rely on sustainable industrial activities, which could face drawbacks in their operations, especially the sectors that rely heavily on water. Water reuse has been applied in the agricultural sector worldwide, but its uptake in the urban environment on an industrial setting is still not widely considered. SMART-WaterDomain seeks to develop efficient and sustainable water management systems that optimize quality and quantity of water at stages of its supply, discharge, reclamation and resource recovery and to address links and gaps between available technologies and industrial requirements on water quality and quantity.
The project foresees the development of a tool that will enable digitally accounting for wastewater re-use that can be used to “credit” companies and utilities that substitute freshwater for treated wastewater. Furthermore, through the collaboration on an international setting, SMART-WaterDomain aims to enhance and develop new interdisciplinary and intercultural insights into research designs for the use of wastewater as part of a wider water sustainability strategy.
As one of the German partners of this project, TUD aims to identify opportunities and barriers in using wastewater treatment technologies by industries and to address key challenges from stakeholders across the industrial, political and social sphere. The partners will collect, analyse and present technical, environmental and economic data for private and public (utility) actors in order to measure, monitor and manage water sustainability, as well as develop indicators and undertake data-collection/analysis protocols in order to demonstrate successes of schemes.
Funding:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Contact:
Chair of Sustainability Management und Environmental Accounting,
Prof. Dr. Remmer Sassen
Further Information:
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
Further Information:
Objective:
The aim of the innovatION research project is to develop an energy-efficient, selective, membrane-based desalination process for the targeted removal of monovalent ions from saline groundwater and surface water, and to review potential applications and areas of use, taking into account water chemistry, economic and ecological aspects.
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Funding measure
Wassertechnologien: Wiederverwendung
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting
Prof. Dr. Remmer Sassen
Further information:
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
Further infromation:
Objective:
Consumer participation has gained relevance for consumer policy, which is illustrated by the concept of the consumer citizen. Universities, in the context of the third mission, are also involved in educating sustainability awareness (and action) and bringing it to society. However, there is a lack of evidence-based empirical research that demonstrates how to mobilize consumer behavior to achieve society-wide goals and increase sustainability literacy.
The project attributes a lack of sustainability action to, among other things, a lack of contextual knowledge among consumers. The aim is to find out how this contextual knowledge can be built up, how sustainability action can be influenced and ultimately how the sustainability competence of consumers can be increased. Young consumers, who are still growing into their role as consumer citizens, are of particular interest here.
Funding:
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection; Federal Office for Agriculture and Food
Contact:
Chair of Business Education and Management Training
Prof. Dr. Bärbel Fürstenau
Further information:
Projects of the Free State of Saxony
Objective:
The Eastern Saxony network for Stroke (SOS-NET) has developed a reference application for the ICT-supported care for the acute stroke in the stationary area. Essential components are an integrated care pathway (SOS-Care), which extends over rehabilitation up to one year, into the period of ambulatory after-care. The technological foundation is being created since the middle of 2015 by the CCS-Telehealth East Saxony (CCS-THOS), which the Carus Consilium Saxony GmbH is developing jointly with T-Systems International GmbH. It is additionally supported by the European Union and the Free State of Saxony with ERDF funds. This pathway is quality-assured for the care and documentation, which is technically implemented using the acute and rehabilitation clinics. Within the scope of a follow-up program, the patient is looked after by one or more case managers by using this pathway.
Funding:
European Union and Free State of Saxony (EFRE)
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Systems Engineering (Prof. Dr. Werner Esswein)
Further Information:
Objective:
Complex chronical illnesses require next to an intensive medical treatment often the inclusion of informal caretakers. The relatives of the diseased person are usually faced with the care and organisation of support. A highly important resource in this context are information about the disease and the necessary measures. The project IBMS – the development of an integrated Care Portal for patients with Multiple Sclerosis – main objective is to create a better connection between professionals and supporting care providers (informal). Furthermore, the patients as well as their relatives should be better supported in managing their chronical illness.
Together with our partners, the Multiple Sclerosis Centre (MSZ) at the Centre for Clinical Neuroscience (University Medical Centre Dresden) and the Carus Consilium Sachsen GmbH, there will be developed an eHealth-application that covers all needs of informal and formal caretakers as well as patient-requirements. Therefore, the already existing documentation system for patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MSDS3D) will be connected to the telemedical infrastructure CCS Telehealth Ostsachsen (THOS). Thereby (there) is created an institution-spanning electronical file, that can be also used by the patient itself. The project hence focuses on an improvement of the individual quality of care for patients as well as an optimised use of resources in the public health care sector.
Funding:
European Union and Free State Saxony (EFRE-Mittel)
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Systems Engineering
Dr. Hannes Schlieter:
Further Information:
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:
DFG Projects
Objectives:
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:
Objective:
The collaborative research centre Transregio 96 is a long-term, Germany-wide large-scale research project that is focused on thermo-energetic design of machine tools from a multi-perspective and interdisciplinary point of view. The project is funded by the DFG with a term of max. 10 years.
Funding:
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Systems Engineering
Prof. Dr. Werner Esswein:
Further Information:
Objective:
The concept of role modeling has been introduced in different fields and at different times in order to model context-related information, including the dynamic change of contexts. But up to now, roles have mainly been used in an isolated way for context modeling in programming languages, in database modeling or to specify access control mechanisms. Never have they been used consistently at all levels of abstraction in the software development process, i.e. modeling of concepts, languages, applications and software systems. Only then, software can be defined as consistently context-sensitive.
The central research goal of this DFG research training group is to prove the feasibility of consistent role modeling and its applicability. Consistency means that roles are used systematically for context modeling on all levels of the modeling process. This includes the concept modeling (in meta-languages), the language modeling, and the modeling on the application and software system level.
There are four aims of this program that will contribute to the main goal of research in this field:
- Formalizing the universal concept of roles. The aim is to prove that it is a feasible concept for developing context-sensitive software. This means to integrate the concept in classical, object-oriented modeling implying thus its expansion.
- Researching the dynamic aspect of roles.
- Investigating the consequences of those new attributes of role-based software on the duration. New concepts for coping with dynamic processes have to be developed. Research will focus on the influence context-specific aspects of the role-concept have on the process of developing software and the lifetime of software.
- Evaluation of context-sensitive role-modelling using practical examples. This will help to illustrate the results and to present the advantages of these concepts.
Contact:
Chair of Business Informatics, esp. Information Systems in Manufacturing and Commerce
Prof. Dr. Susanne Strahringer:
Further Information:
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:
Further Information:
Industrial Projects / Further Projects
Objective:
Within the scope of the doctoral projects of the third Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group new mobility technologies and scenarios as well as the related questions are considered from different scientific perspectives. The 16 doctoral projects are divided into four scientifically delimited but thematically converging clusters. In this way, the transformation processes in the fields of traffic, environment, and society can be examined in a technically appropriate, perspectively diverse, and methodologically multifaceted manner and existing synergies can be exploited on a broad interdisciplinary basis.
Financing:
Friedrich und Elisabeth Boysen-Stiftung and Technische Universität Dresden
Contact:
Cluster B: (Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher, Chair of Industrial Management; Prof. Dr. Jörn Schönberger, Chair of Transport Services and Logistic)
Cluster C: (Prof. Dr. Dominik Möst, Chair of Energy Economics; Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Günther, UNU FLORES)
Further Information:
Objective:
All railway companies are facing increasing competition. Operating authorities frequently invite tenders for operational services on railway lines or networks on a Europe-wide basis. One requirement in the tender documents issued to the operator is compliance with on-board staff attendance rates, i.e. a stipulated percentage of trains that need to be staffed (in the form of local public transport conductors or inspectors). In order to provide the required services as cost-efficiently as possible and avoid penalties, it is necessary to fulfil the stipulated attendance rates and make the best possible use of available personnel. The different manifestations of on-board staff attendance rates pose a significant challenge to personnel planning in the context of both tender preparation and operation. Planning requires the creation of shift schedules, which minimize the necessary deployment of personnel and satisfy the requirements of the Arbeitszeitgesetz (German Working Hours Act) and the collective bargaining agreements. The aim of the project is to develop a software solution for DB Regio AG for solving and optimizing this problem. Mathematical model formulations and powerful operations research methods are used in this context.
Funding:
Deutsche Bahn AG
Contact:
Chair of Business Management, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher:
Further Information:
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:
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/internationales/transcampus/transcampus-projekte-2020
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:
The DB Regio AG carries out its annual and in-year planning in several planning steps, usually performed successively. These include, in particular, timetabling, vehicle scheduling, crew planning, and crew rostering. These four subtasks differ significantly in their influenceability, complexity, and objective criteria.
The aim is to develop a decision support system based on the indicators identified. For instance, a prototypical software in the form of a traffic-light system makes it possible to assess the effects of an individual planning step concerning the overall plan's expected robustness and quality. The results will be implemented for DB Regio AG in the form of usable prototype software.
Funding:
Deutsche Bahn AG
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher
Further information:
Objective:
The aim of the project is to improve WITRON's existing vehicle routing solution. It is necessary to consider complex transport tariffs and various practical restrictions for the vehicle routing problem, e.g., several time windows, order splitting, and a heterogeneous fleet, as well as for the loading optimization subproblem, e.g., stackability, fragility, and LIFO unloading. A proven loading optimization tool from WITRON and an algorithm developed by the chair are used to solve the packing problem. In order to achieve acceptable solutions of good quality, the route planning and the packing problem must be solved in an integrated way. The difficulty of the task lies in the combination of these two demanding planning problems. As an additional challenge, numerous practical restrictions must be taken into account.
Funding:
WITRON Logistik + Informatik GmbH
Contact:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher