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About 100 project partners from Germany and Greece will get together in Berlin on 1 and 2 April 2020 to exchange the interim research results of their projects and their concepts for knowledge and technology transfer.

Saxony’s exhibitors at the Green Week 2020 presented themselves in a regional and environmentally conscious manner to the more than 400,000 visitors of the agricultural fair in Berlin - while at the same time the tractors of Germany’s protesting farmers rolled through the streets. The EXPRESS team took the opportunity to meet and talk to a wide range of players.

The knowledge society is in a constant process of transformation due to digitalization, platform economy and artificial intelligence. Globalization is undergoing a fundamental redefinition by means of geostrategies, international innovation policy, the international trade policy of the future and the structural change taking place in industrial society.

For the fifth time, the Research Day marked the start of the new research year at the Fraunhofer IMW Leipzig. On January 23, 2020, the researchers presented their research priorities in the Science Year 2020 "Bioeconomy". Thematically, they picked up where they left the expiring Science Year 2019 "Artificial Intelligence" and other socioeconomic focal points.

On January 21, 2020, Institute Director Prof. Thorsten Posselt welcomed two CDU members of parliament for a professional exchange on the research priorities of the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW at the Institute's headquarters in Leipzig. In addition to Sebastian Gemkow, Saxony's Minister of State for Science, Oliver Fritzsche, Member of the State Parliament of Saxony, accepted the invitation of the Fraunhofer IMW.

The EXPRESS joint project, which began on 9/1/2019, was awarded funding on 10/17/2019 in the field of data-driven networking and digitization in agriculture. This project tests digital technologies in crop production to determine stimuli for farming practices. The official kick-off took place on November 26th and was followed by a workshop on work at Fraunhofer IMW in Leipzig.

Dr. Steffen Preissler, head of the Knowledge and Technology Transfer division, and Henrik Beermann, deputy head of the Innovation Acceptance unit, are co-authors of a Sino-German study on value networks as the foundation for digital business models. The confidential document, commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, examines use cases from Germany and China in the field of intelligent manufacturing and digital manufacturing transformation.

The SPARCS project, a smart city initiative that brings together 31 partners* with the common goal of creating a network of Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon Communities, is officially kicking off on October 1st, 2019. Following the kick-off, the project partners will gather at a General Assembly in Espoo, Finland on October 11th, 2019.

Digitization is changing many processes, ushering in new forms of work organization. This development calls for the training of future experts in information and communication technology (ICT) standardization.

The first milestone meeting of the research project "Diffusion of digital technologies in vocational education and training through collaboration between learning facilities (DiBBLoK)" took place on August 19th, 2019. The aim of this joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is to identify the best conditions for a successful use of digital technologies within the context of collaboration between learning facilities in vocational education and training. Researchers of the involved parties are developing different recommendations and measures for digitalization processes in vocational education and training, for vocational schools and training companies as well as individual users. As a result, the potential of digital, cross-linked working will be uncovered and potential future fields of application in learning facility collaboration will be identified.