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Research – Department of Business

The Department of Business concentrates on a variety of specialist economic subjects, with a strong emphasis on applications.

Close ties with the economy: innovative solutions for businesses

In terms of both interdisciplinary teaching and research, the Department of Business focuses on contemporary management theories, the development of efficient and innovative solutions and their implementation in business practice, the analysis of value creation, and research into corporate social responsibility.

An interdisciplinary research network, and collaboration with corporate and academic partners as well as tertiary education facilities – with a strong international focus – expands the university’s research portfolio and promotes the development and ongoing expansion of our research-related capabilities in the various research fields and topics.

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  • Cornerstones & characteristics
  • Application of modern management theories and principles
  • Efficient development of innovative solutions
  • Direct implementation at companies
  • Knowledge transfer – putting the latest research findings into practice
  • Applied research centred on current practical challenges
  • Integrating companies and organisations into the research process
  • Highly qualified staff with extensive practical experience

Research focus areas: Department of Business

In the Department of Business we concentrate our research activities on the following main research focuses

Consumer behaviour, perceptions and decision-making in innovative, complex real and virtual decision environments.

Trends and developments in various tourism sectors, use of new technology to optimise internal and external business processes for tourism businesses and organisations.

Designing management and communication measures to promote sustainable and health-orientated behaviour in society.

Regional economic development strategies and measures, with particular emphasis on the value chain from regional producers to the end consumer.

Evaluation and acceptance of new technology along the entire value chain; research on organisational integration and development.

Questions of how business degree programmes can be planned, conducted and evaluated for specific target groups using new media.

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eVRyLab: moving in virtual spaces

Austrian digital pioneer

IMC Krems’ eVRyLab has created a highlight in virtual-reality movement technology, underlining its position as a digitalisation trailblazer in Lower Austria.

The eVRyLab is primarily intended to play a part in the Scan2VR project, but it can also be used for student and school class projects. In this way, children and young adults get a feel for the topic of virtual reality (VR).

One of the highlights is the OmniDeck – a circular “treadmill” that enables physical movement in virtual environments, and the only device of its kind in Austria.

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Applying VR technologies: the Scan2VR project

Creating virtual spaces

 

Scan2VR is a project funded by the province of Lower Austria that builds on the ideas developed by the Haus der Digitalisierung on the topic of digital networking.

The aim is to make real-life settings observable as quickly as possible using VR technology, and enable people to explore these virtual spaces with the help of the OmniDeck.

To begin with, objects, people and spaces are captured using laser scanners. The exhibition spaces of our project partner, Kunstmeile Krems, will be digitalised in this way.

They will be transformed into virtual reality images with the help of automated algorithms, and can be viewed using a VR headset. Users can look around the scanned spaces from a standing position, or run, tiptoe and even crawl through them with the aid of the OmniDeck.

Research projects

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    NOEDIKOM

    In Lower Austria there are an infinite number of “gems”, be it wonderful places in historical towns, historical buildings or unique works of art and wonderful rooms that are hardly known. The digitization of such “gems” brings many strategic...

    In Lower Austria there are an infinite number of “gems”, be it wonderful places in historical towns, historical buildings or unique works of art and wonderful rooms that are hardly known. The digitization of such “gems” brings many strategic possibilities with it. On the one hand, the tourism aspect can be seen, which is about advertising and external impact locally or at trade fairs across Europe. On the other hand, the awareness of the population can also be expanded here, who often do not know about such "treasures" in Lower Austria and can be specifically informed here via different platforms. Another point is the preservation of art and culture as well as historical buildings. The 3D models can be used for reconstructions before the restoration to give experts access to the corresponding objects. Construction work is always difficult, especially in public spaces in historical areas, as it is often difficult to imagine the influence of a renovation beforehand; this would be easy to implement with such 3D models. In consultation with the country's tourism department and experts for cultural heritage, the project would select objects and regions to digitize them in different ways (laser scans, photograms, drone recordings, 3D reconstruction ...). The 3D models obtained from this would then be embedded in corresponding applications (depending on use) and made available to the various stakeholders (museums, municipalities, tourism associations, monument office ...). Here the applications used can be used for feedback with the help of simple questionnaires to check the general acceptance of such 3D implementations.

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    Study on the legal protection of trade secrets in the context of the data economy

    The European Commission and the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA) contracted a consortium led by the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, to perform a study on the legal protection of trade secrets in the context of...

    The European Commission and the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA) contracted a consortium led by the IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, to perform a study on the legal protection of trade secrets in the context of the data economy.

     

    Data is seen as the "oil" of the 21st century. In modern open innovation processes, data is also shared much more frequently among firms than in the past (for purposes like big data analytics, predictive maintenenance, etc.). Among this data is also data that is commercially valuable and not not known to the general public. If firms take appropriate measure to protect such sensitive data, the legal tool of "trade secrets" provides protection against, e.g., industrial espionage and other forms of misappropriation.

     

    Using a comprehensive interview programme and a survey with European firms in four sectors (automotive, financial services, health/life sciences, energy/utilities), the study seeks to understand whether trade secrets can be, as a tool, effectively and efficiently used for protecting shared data. The results feed directly into the law- and policy making processes at European level.

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    VRWalk

    When training in virtual rooms, it is more and more necessary not only to act statically, but the people to be trained must around move in the virtual room. This movement can be shown in several ways (teleportation, joystick movement ...). Many of...

    When training in virtual rooms, it is more and more necessary not only to act statically, but the people to be trained must around move in the virtual room. This movement can be shown in several ways (teleportation, joystick movement ...). Many of these movements result in nau-sea, shingles, headaches, and other problems in varying numbers of participants. These symptoms are often referred to as motion sickness or cybersickness. This significantly limits the possibilities of training in VR and therefore also enormously restricts the potential of the training. The different options are often aimed at different solutions (e.g. Virtualizer, Om-nideck, ...). The physical as well as the electronic (resolution, immersion, interaction) factors are often considered very individually. The idea here would be to reach a large number of test persons in several large-scale tests with different demos, who work through various possibili-ties, sometimes in combination, in order to get a more precise picture of how such a move-ment can best be realized. On the other hand, the health and motivational factors should also be considered here to be able to give recommendations for different applications in the indus-trial, school and university sectors from the anonymized results.

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    Influence of alternative consumer networks on sustainable development and regional development

    This research project is a dissertation project, funded by the NÖ Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H. (NFB). The dissertation will deal with the following research questions: 1) From the point of view of consumers, producers and experts, which...

    This research project is a dissertation project, funded by the NÖ Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H. (NFB).

     

    The dissertation will deal with the following research questions:

    1) From the point of view of consumers, producers and experts, which criteria should be used to assess the success of alternative consumer networks in sustainable development with focus on regional development?

    2) How do selected Austrian alternative consumer networks perform in terms of sustainable development using these criteria?

    3) Which role do information about these criteria play in the attraction of potential new members?

     

    Planned Methods:

    1) Systematic literature review

    2) Qualitative interviews with consumers and producers in alternative consumer networks as well as with sustainable development experts

    3) Web-based survey to rate the relative importance of possible criteria

    4) Evaluation methods for sustainability criteria not defined yet, depending on the research outcomes of the aforementioned steps

    5) Online experiment to examine effect of communicating sustainability criteria

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    Dataskop - Sensor-Based Data Economy in Lower Austria

    The "Dataskop" research project strengthens the digital development of Lower Austria and is considered a milestone in digitization. The "Dataskop" project is concerned with visualizing the data from sensors and is being implemented jointly by several...

    The "Dataskop" research project strengthens the digital development of Lower Austria and is considered a milestone in digitization. The "Dataskop" project is concerned with visualizing the data from sensors and is being implemented jointly by several universities.

    The "Dataskop" project aims to make invisible data visible in their real environment and consequently usable. The focus is on the outdoor area, away from well-developed digital infrastructures. Location-based environmental data are collected and displayed via sensors. For the rural area of Lower Austria, digital support means a sustainable improvement in the public sector. Future fields of application could be in disaster control, agriculture, especially viticulture, drinking water supply or winter services.

    The interdisciplinary research team includes researchers from the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, FOTEC Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH in Wiener Neustadt and the Department for Integrated Sensor Systems of the Danube University Krems, also located in Wiener Neustadt.

    In the course of the project, which will run for three years, the cooperation partners will also deal with data acquisition, IT security and the economic use of data. In addition to the scientific publications, the developed basic technologies will be made publicly available as open source software and hardware components. The project, funded by the province of Lower Austria, thus makes an important contribution to the goals of the Lower Austrian research, technology and innovation program.

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    Train@train

    With the help of 3D scans and CAD data locomotives, train parts, environments, buildings, rooms, people and objects are captured and prepared for a 3D implementation, so that later these spaces can be "walked" with VR glasses. The environments in VR...

    With the help of 3D scans and CAD data locomotives, train parts, environments, buildings, rooms, people and objects are captured and prepared for a 3D implementation, so that later these spaces can be "walked" with VR glasses.

    The environments in VR should be interactive enough to match the real-world training environment. The task would be to innovatively train procedures here, to simulate errors and to register the reaction or the motivation for a new run through the participants to demonstrate the potential of VR. Participants should have the opportunity to make mistakes and then be advised to ensure continuous improvement while minimizing the cost (providing large machines for training) and at the same time minimizing the risks to the participants (injury risks) from any errors. The gamification aspect should then enable a permanent motivation in order not to find the same pattern even when repeated. One aspect of this is the improved method of service (training) through the use of innovative products.

     

    The project is funded by the State of Lower Austria's Department of Economy, Tourism and Technology.

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    Mobile Working Guide

    Objective of this project is to develop a Mobile Working Guide (MWG). The MWG will allow organizations to design and implement policies or rulebooks for the optimal use of mobile working. Contents and design of such policies or rulebooks is a...

    Objective of this project is to develop a Mobile Working Guide (MWG). The MWG will allow organizations to design and implement policies or rulebooks for the optimal use of mobile working. Contents and design of such policies or rulebooks is a cricital success factor for productivity of organizations and satisfaction of its employees when implementing mobile working. Special about the MWG is that companies will be enabled to develop mobile working policies or rulebooks without external help, since the MWG provides all necessary know-how and input required, including a regulatory topic catalogue, best practices and design model and a co-development design process. So, that a company will be able to get it right the first time. Or if a company does allow mobile working already, the MWG can used to optimize an existing mobile working policy or rulebook.

     

    This project is funded by the representative chamber of worker of Lower Austria (Arbeiterkammer Niederösterreich).

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    Museopedagogy and Augmented reality: Recognizing museums as educational spaces

    The MONA project is the acronym for Erasmus+ project KA201 Museopedagogy and Augmented reality: Recognizing museums as educational spaces with code: 2019-1-EL01-KA201-062965. Our project intends to bring culture closer to the younger audience and...

    The MONA project is the acronym for Erasmus+ project KA201 Museopedagogy and Augmented reality: Recognizing museums as educational spaces with code: 2019-1-EL01-KA201-062965.

     

    Our project intends to bring culture closer to the younger audience and especially the school audience through the creation of an integrated educational program provided in four museums in Europe using modern technology with emphasis on augmented and mixed reality.

     

    MONA project hopes to turn the school visit to the museum into a stunning, charming and enjoyable learning process through experiential practice and play. The target audience is the whole school community, but mainly focusing on children, teenagers and teachers in the areas of the partners.

     

    The consortium of the project consists of 4 museums, 2 schools, 2 universities and 2 technical organizations from 4 European countries.

     

    More information about the project can be found on the project website: monaproject.eu/en/

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    UniLab - From University to Labour market in the 21st Century: a step forward in work-based Placements

    IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems (IMC) is partner in the Erasmus+ project UniLab - From University to Labour market in the 21st Century: a step forward in work-based Placements. The collaboration between universities and the industry is...

    IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems (IMC) is partner in the Erasmus+ project UniLab - From University to Labour market in the 21st Century: a step forward in work-based Placements.

    The collaboration between universities and the industry is increasingly perceived as a vehicle to enhance innovation through knowledge exchange. This project involves 4 EU countries (BE, ES, AT, FR) and 3 partner countries: Russia, Belarus and Azerbaijan.

     

    The aim of the Project is to work on issues that are common in all partner country unviersities, such as:

    - need for practical placement and further employment

    - need for Career Centres more involved in practical placement procedures

    - improvement of practical placement guidance

    - improvement of perspectives of employment

     

     

    Project 610245-EPP-1-2019-BE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP.

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    Digital Innovation Hub OST (DIHOST)

    The DIHOST project, funded by the FFG and the federal states of Lower Austria and Burgenland, has been offering a comprehensive service program for three years to increase the ability and speed of transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises...

    The DIHOST project, funded by the FFG and the federal states of Lower Austria and Burgenland, has been offering a comprehensive service program for three years to increase the ability and speed of transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Eastern Austria towards digital innovations.

     

    DIHOST offers low-threshold access to expert knowledge, the possibility to test and implement (new) digital infrastructures & enables international connections to European networks.

     

    The main areas of responsibility can be divided into three pillars:

     

    1) Information (awareness, maturity level, checks, advice, technology scouting, funding checks,)

     

    2) Continuing education (offers for SMEs, in-house training, webinars, blendid learning, best practices, workshops)

     

    3) Digital innovation (access to infrastructure, e.g. 3D printing, business model development, prototyping, OI)

     

    The DIHOST network includes the consortium partners ecoplus Niederösterreichs Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH, FH St.Pölten, Austrian Blockchain Center, FOTEC, Forschung Burgenland and IMC FH Krems. The WKO and the House of Digitization act as additional network partners.

     

    Project manager at the IMC FH Krems is Prof. (FH) Mag. Gerhard Kormann-Hainzl.

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    Migrant Digital Entrepreneurship

    The overall aim of the project is to develop a socially robust understanding of the impact and potential of migrant digital entrepreneurship on a regional socioeconomic system. Therefore, a transdisciplinary mutual learning process will help to...

    The overall aim of the project is to develop a socially robust understanding of the impact and potential of migrant digital entrepreneurship on a regional socioeconomic system. Therefore, a transdisciplinary mutual learning process will help to develop a comprehensive system model. Furthermore, we distinguish two specific objectives: (i) deepening our understanding of Migrant Digital Entrepreneurship with regard to digital and technological trends in modern business models compared to other countries and/or regions in internatonal benchmarks and (ii) the identification of leverage points for interventions at various levels within the innovation system trough data-driven analytis.

     

    The project is funded by Niederösterreichische Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H. (NFB).

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    MBIT New World of Work Impact Measurement

    MBIT has started its transformation towards 'AGILE ORGANIZATION'. This journey includes digitization, flexible working schemes as well as new office architecture. The transformation is supported by a multi-annual impact measurement study. Impact...

    MBIT has started its transformation towards 'AGILE ORGANIZATION'. This journey includes digitization, flexible working schemes as well as new office architecture. The transformation is supported by a multi-annual impact measurement study. Impact measurement allows to evaluate the progress achieved, based on facts and figures. I also enables to manage the transformation journey as such in a very precise manner.

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    Mixed Reality Based Collaboration for Industry (MRBC4i)

    Virtual reality and augmented reality – often referred to together as mixed reality (MR) – have attracted significant attention among companies in recent years, as well as prompting questions about the technologies’ applicability in business. A...

    Virtual reality and augmented reality – often referred to together as mixed reality (MR) – have attracted significant attention among companies in recent years, as well as prompting questions about the technologies’ applicability in business.

     

    A number of potential applications for MR are being implemented as part of a project entitled Mixed Reality Based Collaboration for Industry (MRBCi). In order to ensure that the project is aligned with challenges faced by companies in their day-to-day operations, businesses were surveyed about the specific problems they encounter in connection with these technologies, and the results analysed. The MRBCi project is centred on implementation of applications in four subject areas: production support, remote support, education and training, and product presentation.

    The following problems related to MR technologies were identified:

    Problem 1 – entry barriers: at present, a number of showcase applications are available, but examples of the truly effective use of MR in the field are extremely thin on the ground.

    Problem 2 – enabling: MR projects typically make it past the prototype stage only very rarely, as significant resources are required for project set-up and initial development of these prototypes.

    Problem 3 –effective implementation: integration of technical solutions in companies’ business processes and day-to-day operations is currently only found in very few cases.

     

    Interdisciplinary collaboration between the research partners has paved the way for the optimum integration of wide-ranging skills and expertise from the various research focuses. The MRBC4i project aims to help Austrian industry take a significant step forward in achieving the following objectives:

    1) Reducing entry barriers (technical, organisational and psychological)

    2) Reducing the resources required and in turn the costs for enterprises (enabling)

    3) Analysing the impacts on business processes and models, stakeholder acceptance and readiness (maturity).

     

    IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems is heading up the accompanying research activities in the MRBC4i project, in collaboration with Technical University Vienna and St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. The aim of the work package is to address the following question regarding analysis of the impacts on business processes and models, stakeholder acceptance and readiness (maturity): how can mixed reality assistance systems be evaluated using a multi-dimensional criteria set that is suitable for industry?

     

    The project has been submitted to the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) under the Collective Research funding programme. The Lower Austrian business agency, ecoplus. Niederösterreichs Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH, has overall responsibility for management of the MRBCI project, which involves the plastics and mechatronics clusters in Lower Austria.

     

    If you have any questions, please mail Prof. Gerhard Kormann-Hainzl at [email protected].

    Corporate project partners

    • Bene GmbH

    • Bilfinger Chemserv GmbH

    • Codeflügel GmbH

    • Geodata Ziviltechnikergesellschaft mbH

    • Jabil Circuit Austria GmbH

    • KBA-Mödling GmbH

    • Knorr-Bremse GmbH

    • Kotányi GmbH

    • Kremsmüller Industrieanlagenbau KG

    • Lenze Operations Austria GmbH

    • MAN Truck & Bus Österreich GesmbH

    • Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft

    • MBIT Digital Solutions

    • ÖBB-Business Competence Center GmbH

    • Piesslinger GmbH

    • Prometa GmbH

    • Lower Austrian Red Cross

    • Semperit

    • Test-Fuchs GmbH

    • Umdasch Group Ventures GmbH

    • Voith Paper Rolls GmbH & Co KG

    • Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH

     

    R&D project partners

    • St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences

    • FOTEC Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH

    • University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

    • IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems

    • TU Wien

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    eMobSim - eMobility in everyday life

    Are recent information campaigns sufficient to counter the myths and the key negative beliefs around eMobility (like short range, insufficient charging infrastructure and high acquisition costs)? If one considers the large information portals...

    Are recent information campaigns sufficient to counter the myths and the key negative beliefs around eMobility (like short range, insufficient charging infrastructure and high acquisition costs)?

     

    If one considers the large information portals available for e-mobility, the potential still seems underused and existing portals are rather text-heavy and mainly include scientific and technical information. They rely on verbal (narrative/textual) persuasion. The disseminated information is usually provided by energy companies, environmental organizations or car manufacturers, which might compromise the credibility of the information as being biased towards a specific intention. Other means of persuasion like vicarious experiences and authentic visual storytelling (slice of life) successfully adopted by social media influencers are currently not used in this context.

     

    The aim of the project is to positively influence the attitude of the Austrian public towards eMobility. This is done by bundling social media outlets (especially Instagram, Youtube and Twitter) and creating adequate content in form of visuals and authentic emotional stories of everyday life to refute the myths surrounding electric mobility. Within the framework of the project, a concept for the communication of e-mobility will be developed, based on entertainment theories, educational and scientific communication, design thinking and digital learning. A landing page will also be created to connect the individual outlets and, in particular, the content.

     

    According to acceptance research, this communication represents a classical intervention. Therefore, the effectiveness of such communication interventions will be investigated by means of a scientific accompanying study.

     

    The project is funded by the Climate and Energy Fund as part of the "Elektromobilität in der Praxis 2018" program.

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    Resource efficiency: Cooperation models of start-ups with SMEs/family firms for sustainable innovations

    The added value of the cooperation of start-ups with SMEs/family firms lies in the acceleration of the development of sustainable innovations by bringing together the different competences. Furthermore, intensive cooperation can also bring about a...

    The added value of the cooperation of start-ups with SMEs/family firms lies in the acceleration of the development of sustainable innovations by bringing together the different competences. Furthermore, intensive cooperation can also bring about a cultural change with regard to openness (open innovation) and strengthen future viability through new impulses at SMEs as well as increase the professionalism of market cultivation at start-ups. In addition, the cooperation can also be used to explore which forms of possible further cooperation are suitable for both partners.

    Cooperation often also presents major challenges for both companies. Identifying possible partners and contact persons is just one of many initial challenges. Complications also often arise from the clash of different cultures: agile versus less dynamic work processes, different values and different willingness to take risks.

    The project aims to achieve the following goals:

    - Strengthening the competitiveness of Viennese SMEs and family firms and start-ups in particular.

    - Systematic derivation of recommendations for action for SMEs and family firms on how they can sustainably develop new products, services and business models by using cooperation with start-ups.

    - Building up sound competences and resources for projects with companies building on the core competences of these companies.

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    Digital Competence Monitoring in Production Companies

    The NFB project on digital competence monitoring in manufactoring companies builds on research on competence development and aligns it to Industry 4.0. The approach of the researchers of the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, the University of...

    The NFB project on digital competence monitoring in manufactoring companies builds on research on competence development and aligns it to Industry 4.0. The approach of the researchers of the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt and the Danube University Krems is based on Design-Based Research. In the research project practical experiences of production enterprises are collected and evaluated. Thus a competence model is developed, which is tested in enterprises and adapted on basis of these tests in several loops. This ensures continuous improvement and practical relevance of the model.

     

    The project is funded by Niederösterreichische Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H. (NFB).

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    Scan2VR

    The present project was about the merging of different areas. There are already solutions today which are able to capture rooms and surroundings. There are also solutions to capture people three-dimensionally (primarily for 3D prints), as well as...

    The present project was about the merging of different areas. There are already solutions today which are able to capture rooms and surroundings. There are also solutions to capture people three-dimensionally (primarily for 3D prints), as well as objects that are captured three-dimensionally. The innovation here was to move from the scan (mostly individual scans or so-called point clouds) to three-dimensional usable models. The innovation here was the creation and adaptation of programming algorithms and processes for the direct implementation of these scans in the VR room. These new algorithms were necessary in order to be able to move freely in this virtual space and still map the rooms and objects realistically and interactively. The movement was implemented using a suitable device so that the movement appears freely in the room (not as with previous solutions in which one is strapped into an apparatus). This innovative approach required the interdisciplinary cooperation of programmers and media specialists so that the scans could be converted into solid VR rooms and objects and the scanned people could be placed in the room as interactively as possible. This was not possible with previous solutions. This solution was developed in cooperation with a company and implemented as an example. A company was selected that had already submitted LOIs in advance. From this, in the course of the project, corresponding publications in well-known conferences and papers were created that highlighted these solutions and discussed further possible applications.

    The project is funded by the State of Lower Austria Department of Economy, Tourism and Technology.

     

    This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund

    More information on IWB / EFRE can be found on

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    Bottom-up energy transformation – socially innovative approaches and new actors

    One of the core questions related to achieving climate protection targets is how to bring “exhausted” potential for climate protection more closely into line with what is theoretically possible. Established policy instruments such as legislation,...

    One of the core questions related to achieving climate protection targets is how to bring “exhausted” potential for climate protection more closely into line with what is theoretically possible. Established policy instruments such as legislation, regulations, subsidies, information and advice do not appear to be sufficient. So what part could social innovations and bottom-up initiatives play in speeding up the Energiewende (“energy transformation”)? Who are the agents of social innovation in civil society and bottom-up processes? How can their plans be supported? This project is designed to examine these key questions.

     

    In this project, the project partners will assess energy- and climate protection-related social innovations and bottom-up processes, as well as potential key actors, and the findings will be appraised to determine their suitability for use in subsequent stages of the project. Action areas will be identified in which social innovations and bottom-up processes can play a part in bringing about the energy transformation. Ideas and approaches will then be developed and discussed in consultation with key actors from civil society as well as climate change and energy sector stakeholders. Recommendations will be drawn up on how actors involved in bottom-up processes and important agents of social innovation – with a focus on non-profit organisations and social enterprises – can be addressed and integrated into initiatives in future by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund.

     

    The project is being funded by the Climate and Energy Fund.

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    House for Digitalisation in lower Austria - Cluster Krems

    House for Digitalisation in lower Austria - Cluster Krems The Virtual House of Digitization is an interactive platform with personalized services to connect people and businesses with digital interests. In the background of the platform, artificial...

    House for Digitalisation in lower Austria - Cluster Krems

    The Virtual House of Digitization is an interactive platform with personalized services to connect people and businesses with digital interests. In the background of the platform, artificial intelligence ensures that visitors get the information that best suits their interests. Interactive services can be used to find the most suitable partner for new ideas or projects.

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    Local and Traditional Knowledge about Nature as Part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage - Safeguarding vs. Tourism Utilization

    Tourism development, based on traditional and local knowledge is important for highlighting the cultural features which distinguish one region from another. Knowledge and skills of local people, crafts, customs, rituals, festivals, etc. can be seen...

    Tourism development, based on traditional and local knowledge is important for highlighting the cultural features which distinguish one region from another. Knowledge and skills of local people, crafts, customs, rituals, festivals, etc. can be seen as cultural capital or as the intangible cultural heritage of local population . The intangible cultural heritage is difficult to "safeguard", is often not easy to stage for the visitors of a region, and can be made accessible and tangible through innovative leisure activities.

    In this research project, a concept for the simultaneous safeguarding, transfer and tourism valorization of traditional knowledge about nature will be created. Competences, practices and traditional knowledge of local people (e.g. about different crops, ecological gardening, medical plants etc.) are investigated in order to be made accessible to specific target groups and thus preserved. Experts and knowledge bearers, including older generations are identified and involved as informants. Scenarios for tourism development will be designed to ensure dialogue and knowledge transfer between regions, but also between generations. Furthermore, this tourism valorizatin can contribute to the safeguarding, promotion and development of intangible cultural heritage.

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    New world of work: performance measurement at Porsche Informatik GmbH

    As a key player in the digital transformation of the automotive sector, Porsche Informatik is remodelling itself as a next-generation company. Two core components of its transformation strategy are agile architecture and organisation, and adopting...

    As a key player in the digital transformation of the automotive sector, Porsche Informatik is remodelling itself as a next-generation company. Two core components of its transformation strategy are agile architecture and organisation, and adopting new approaches with a view to implementing new-world-of-work approaches.

     

    IMC Krems is providing academic support for the shift towards new, innovative working practices by means of performance assessment. Until 2020, the progress made by the organisation in the course of its transformation will be regularly evaluated, and areas in which optimisation and adjustments are required will be identified. To this end, the company’s productivity will be measured, as will the effectiveness of managerial approaches, which will be subject to fundamental changes as part of the transformation process. Overall, the performance assessment will equip employees and managers with a detailed “radar” for change – clear facts, figures and data will provide the basis for decision-making on the path towards establishing a next-generation business.

     

    The research project will also open up important links to the university’s teaching activities, in particular to the Digital Business Innovation and Transformation and International Export and Business Management master programmes, as well as the Collaboration in the Next Generation Enterprise specialist module, where students will have the opportunity to participate in the research project as part of their master thesis. The project will also be covered in major publications, such as the new edition of and supplementary chapters for Unternehmen der nächsten Generation, published by Springer. Regular updates will be posted on The New World of Work blog at www.newworldofwork.wordpress.com.

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    Scale(up) Alps - Accelerate and promote the Alpine Start-up Ecosystem

    The economy of the 21st century is affected by digitalization and accelerating innovation cycles. Start-ups seem to profit from the general economic development based globalization and digitalization. While Alpine Space can rely on growing and...

    The economy of the 21st century is affected by digitalization and accelerating innovation cycles. Start-ups seem to profit from the general economic development based globalization and digitalization. While Alpine Space can rely on growing and dynamic regional start-up ecosystems, many of these start-ups are facing obstacles when scaling up across Europe and beyond. The growing start-up communities are envisaged to link Alpine Space startup hubs, foster business acceleration, bridge SMEs-investors-policy-markets, involve actors in a community of opportunities. 11 European Partners (3x Italy, 3x France, 2x Slovenia, 1x Germany, 2x Austria) are working together in this EU funded project.

     

    SCALE(up)ALPS aims to make sure that the Alpine Space first, than EU Single Market, are the launch bases of alpine start-ups into the global competition. The main goals are, to connect innovation actors, increase knowledge transfer as well as to enhance Alpine Space key high-growth SMEs business innovation potential. The project will focus on defining a start-up integrated ecosystem growth-strategy as well as Alpine Space services to grow tech companies accessing new markets or disruptive businesses in existing markets.

     

    The Project ist funded by the Interreg Alpine Space Programme, a European transnational cooperation Programme for the Alpine region.

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    Innovations in family businesses: Contextual factors, processes and Performance effects

    In family businesses, innovation behaviour is often largely shaped by the idiosyncrasies of the business family. For instance, the business family’s desire to sustain the business over generations provides long-term capital (patient capital) to the...

    In family businesses, innovation behaviour is often largely shaped by the idiosyncrasies of the business family. For instance, the business family’s desire to sustain the business over generations provides long-term capital (patient capital) to the business and prompts family managers to make far-sighted investment decisions. Family businesses also often form part of strong and trusting social networks with stakeholders, creating many opportunities to mobilise people for new ideas.

    However, despite the fact that family businesses retain a number of assets that are conducive to innovation, investigations comparing the innovation output in family businesses and non-family businesses show ambiguous results. These results suggest that family businesses are both more and less innovative. These inconsistencies may be due to paradoxical effects of family involvement, as the family not only constitutes a resource but also a liability for innovation. For instance, family businesses prefer to avoid projects associated with high risk because they do not want to gamble with the inheritance of family members. They prefer continuity which prompts them to rely on what is tried-and- trusted and adhere to family traditions, instead of trying new things. Empirical evidence also indicates that the innovative capacity of family businesses frequently decreases across generations. Thus, although family businesses often have great innovation potential, they are sometimes reluctant to make use of this. This phenomenon is also known as the ability-willingness paradox.

     

    The question of how family businesses make use of their innovation capacity and why some family businesses are better innovators than others is therefore the focus of the current research project at the University of Applied Sciences Krems (in cooperation with the Research Institute for Family Businesses, Vienna University of Economics and Business).

     

    The project is co-financed by the Province of Lower Austria (Department K3 - Science and Research) and leading companies in the region.

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    “GrünRaum”: Valorization of Green Spaces

    This project examined the revitalisation of green spaces to exploit their tourism potential as well as ways to enhance the quality of the visitor experience with respect to natural and cultural heritage (both tangible and intangible) in gardens and...

    This project examined the revitalisation of green spaces to exploit their tourism potential as well as ways to enhance the quality of the visitor experience with respect to natural and cultural heritage (both tangible and intangible) in gardens and parks in Lower Austria and Southern Moravia. Furthermore, profiles and requirements of the various garden visitor segments were analysed. Based on these findings, a manual with quality criteria for the use of the managers of these green spaces was developed. New joint, cross-boarder garden tourism propositions were developed and presented.

     

    The project was funded by the EU’s INTERREG V-A Austria- Czech Republic programme.

     

    Websites: http://diegaerten.eu/https://www.at-cz.eu/at/ibox/pa-2-umwelt-und-ressourcen/atcz71_grunraum

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    Green spaces as a tourist attraction: Vienna in comparison to selected other European cities

    From a tourism sector point of view, green spaces in cities represent increasingly important leisure spaces, and are gaining significance alongside cultural attractions such as museums, events and distinct whole areas of a city. The aims of this...

    From a tourism sector point of view, green spaces in cities represent increasingly important leisure spaces, and are gaining significance alongside cultural attractions such as museums, events and distinct whole areas of a city. The aims of this project are to find out what role public parks and gardens play in city breaks, whether green spaces give a city a competitive advantage, and to gain insights into the needs of different visitors in terms of how they experience green spaces in a city.

     

    The project ist funded by the "Jubiläumsfonds" of the City of Vienna for the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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    The Wine Lab

    The Wine Lab knowledge alliance is aimed at establishing a structured university-business cooperation, by promoting active stakeholders dialogue and joint actions in order to generate innovative ideas for the sector growing, that can include either...

    The Wine Lab knowledge alliance is aimed at establishing a structured university-business cooperation, by promoting active stakeholders dialogue and joint actions in order to generate innovative ideas for the sector growing, that can include either new solutions for technical problems and particularly new approaches to the market (agribusiness, place branding, etc.); promote exchange and mutual learning between producers and researchers; identify learning gaps, both in students’ curricula and in lifelong learning for wine makers, in order to provide tailored learning offer; foster entrepreneurship mind-set of students in agriculture; establish local hubs of innovation, linked across Europe.

     

    The project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU.

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    CaucaSusT - Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region

    Science and research play an important role in the sustainable development of tourism worldwide. This role, as well as the link between science, practice and politics, were strengthened in Armenia and Georgia by the CaucaSusT project. The project...

    Science and research play an important role in the sustainable development of tourism worldwide. This role, as well as the link between science, practice and politics, were strengthened in Armenia and Georgia by the CaucaSusT project. The project partners from Austria IMC UAS Krems and BOKU shared with local partners their expertise in the area of ​​sustainable tourism development as well as their experience in transdisciplinary research in order to create a suitable model for tourism research and teaching in these countries. Together with the Tbilisi State University and the Armenian State Pedagogical University, current problems of the sustainable tourism development in the pilot regions were identified and integrated into the university courses through case studies and field research. These transdisciplinary research and teaching methods provided students with insights into reality and facilitated concrete solutions for the local tourism economy.

     

    The Academic Partnership between University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, (Lead Institution) IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, Tbilisi State University and the Armenian State University will enable the project partners in Armenia and Georgia to address real problems of sustainable development - focusing on tourism development - in cooperation with the local population and other stakeholders. On a wider scale, the Academic Partnership will strengthen cooperation on academic activities on tourism development in the Caucasus region, and facilitate better coordination, coherence and integration of research outcomes into public policy in this field, via cooperating with and supporting activities of the regional Scientific Network for the Caucasus Mountain Region. The overall project goal is contribution to Capacity building for the universities in transdisciplinary teaching (case study teaching format, interdepartmental cooperation etc).

     

    The Project is funded by the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development (APPEAR) under the fifth call, implemented by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD).

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    Enterprise 4.0 – Success in the digital age

    The point of departure for this research project was the following question: In what specific ways can the digital revolution known as Industry 4.0, with its new technologies and forms of work, help manufacturing companies in the region to stay...

    The point of departure for this research project was the following question:

    In what specific ways can the digital revolution known as Industry 4.0, with its new technologies and forms of work, help manufacturing companies in the region to stay competitive and therefore maintain and create prosperity and jobs?

     

    Implementation applied the Enterprise 4.0 methodology, which analyses Industry 4.0 initiatives as follows:

    • Digital transformation: Which technologies were used and how? (incremental or disruptive innovation)

    • Internationalisation: What effect does the project have on the company’s global competitiveness? (return on sales, cost advantages, new business opportunities, effects on employment, site acquisition, ...)

    • Entrepreneurship: What business challenges need to be overcome?

    The members of E4.0 were all leading industrial firms that intensively discussed and worked together on Industry 4.0 topics (at management level and in detail at expert level) in a highly confidential setting. The project was highly focused on implementation and each company brought one of its major Industry 4.0/digital transformation projects to the table, in order to develop the topic with peers within the framework provided by the research project. Each of the companies was an industry leader in their sector, but none of them were direct competitors.

     

    The participating companies were NOVOMATIC AG, BENE GmbH, buntmetall amstetten Ges.m.b.H., Doka Österreich GmbH, Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen GmbH, Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH, HOERBIGER Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH, RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems GmbH, RIC (Regionales Innovations Centrum) GmbH, TEST-FUCHS GmbH and Welser Profile GmbH.

     

    The research partners were IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Vienna University of Economics and Business, TU Wien, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, and University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt.

     

    Enterprise 4.0 was a project from the mechatronics and plastics cluster initiatives by ecoplus, the Lower Austrian business agency.

     

    Links to further information:

     

    Enterprise 4.0 project folder: www.ecoplus.at/media/4604/folder-projekt-enterprise-vier-punkt-null.pdf

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    Digital Business Transformation

    Digital transformation of companies and businesses goes beyond changes in the technological environment and application – it affects the very nature of a company. Surviving in a digitalised economy is an entrepreneurial challenge. There are new...

    Digital transformation of companies and businesses goes beyond changes in the technological environment and application – it affects the very nature of a company. Surviving in a digitalised economy is an entrepreneurial challenge. There are new business models and value chains, new industrial networks as well as new digital products. Digital technologies change business processes and top- down and bottom-up organisational structures. Digital transformation is an entrepreneurial challenge.

     

    The project aims to explore the success factors and conditions for the effective digital transformation of companies, and places a strong emphasis on the transformation from analogue to digital and digitalised business models.

     

    The research focuses on established companies, including international firms, in the process of digitalising their business models. It seeks to identify the most transformative developments in their industries and why and how they are responding to these.

     

    The project is co-financed by the Province of Lower Austria (Department K3 - Science and Research) and leading companies in the region.

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    Sustainable innovations in the hotel industry

    The debate on social and environmental challenges is slowly but steadily changing the sustainability understanding of a growing number of hoteliers, with the focus increasingly shifting to the perception of innovation opportunities, away from...

    The debate on social and environmental challenges is slowly but steadily changing the sustainability understanding of a growing number of hoteliers, with the focus increasingly shifting to the perception of innovation opportunities, away from sustainability as a tool for image enhancement. It is of particular importance that sustainability is perceived as an innovation opportunity, with the possibility of gaining a competitive advantage in order to stand out from the competition.

    Suggestions on the extent to which sustainable innovations can be implemented in the holiday and city hospitality sector are given in particular by four best practice examples, which were investigated by the IMC Fachochschule Krems.

     

    In all case studies, it is clear that corporate values ​​play a key role in sustainability and responsibility. The hotels have essential ideals and values ​​that they live with and which have often existed since the company's foundation or for several generations. They influence the assessment of new solutions and the future orientation of the activities of a hotel to a considerable extent.

     

    Sustainability is seen as an opportunity rather than a risk in our study. Developing solutions for societal challenges does not necessarily mean that this will lead to a cost increase for companies, but the use of innovative technologies, processes and management approaches can lead to increased productivity and an expansion of markets. Companies can discover a variety of opportunities to take on social responsibility, while at the same time expanding their competitive edge.

     

    The project is a result of the project "CSR and Innovation", funded by the COIN "Aufbau" (capacity building) funding line of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.

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    VR for SME

    The task was to develop innovative applications and solutions for SMEs and their environment with the help of students in different semesters and ideally different courses of study. These were used by the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to gain...

    The task was to develop innovative applications and solutions for SMEs and their environment with the help of students in different semesters and ideally different courses of study. These were used by the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to gain advantages in the context of their business operations in defined areas of application. For example: a better understanding among customers, acceptance of the company as an employer, aftercare in the medical-therapeutic area, virtual tour, virtual space, etc.

    The task was also to communicate in distributed teams and communicate interdisciplinarily and to improve the products / demos by means of different methods (Agile Programming, Open Innovation, Design thinking, ..). In addition to online communication with distributed teams, the students also learned how to communicate with customers and their visions regarding projects that affect your processes. In addition, a good insight into the world of VR / AR was achieved and the possibilities for the use of such technologies were mediated.

     

    The Project was funded by the Province of Lower Austria (Department K3 - Science and Research).

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    Measuring Entrepreneurship Education Impact

    Can you teach and train entrepreneurship? Addressing this central question of Entrepreneurship Education Research was the goal of a research and evaluation project together with AWS Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH. By evaluating a one year program of...

    Can you teach and train entrepreneurship? Addressing this central question of Entrepreneurship Education Research was the goal of a research and evaluation project together with AWS Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH. By evaluating a one year program of entrepreneurship training (AWS First Program) and comparing it to the development of a controlgroup, we found significant training and learning effects regarding entrepreneurial know-how, as well as significant differences regarding entrepreneurial attitutes, motivation and attitude.

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    Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe

    Europe Engage' seeks to embed the idea of the civic university through service-learning as a pedagogical approach within the participating universities, which enables students and universities to connect with society in order to maintain and develop...

    Europe Engage' seeks to embed the idea of the civic university through service-learning as a pedagogical approach within the participating universities, which enables students and universities to connect with society in order to maintain and develop democracy and healthy levels of social capital within the European context. Service-learning is a key approach in terms of incorporating a culture of civic and political literacy among the student population into higher education.

     

    The ‘Europe Engage’ Project seeks to embed the concept and practice of the civic university through Service-Learning (S-L) and student engagement with community. The overall aim of ‘Europe Engage’ will be to promote Service-Learning as a pedagogical approach that embeds and develops civic engagement within higher education, students, staff and the wider community.

     

    Europe Engage is a three-year project involving twelve institutions of higher education with experience and interest in this methodology.

     

    Link to project card:

    ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/

     

    The project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU.

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    Hybrid parks – development of a measurement model

    This project, for Die Gärten Niederösterreichs (the gardens of Lower Austria association), is concerned with the economic, ecological and sociocultural impacts of parks and gardens (e.g. quality of life, image, qualitative regional effects) and will...

    This project, for Die Gärten Niederösterreichs (the gardens of Lower Austria association), is concerned with the economic, ecological and sociocultural impacts of parks and gardens (e.g. quality of life, image, qualitative regional effects) and will identify relevant indicators and measurement approaches to analyse these. In addition, proposals and recommendations for mutual (international) implementation will be developed. Based on the outcomes, a “toolbox” will be developed and recommendations derived.

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    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und Innovation Management

    CSR can play a major role in companies’ competitiveness. As a strategic and management approach, CSR can help businesses to exploit the opportunities for innovation presented by current and future social and environmental challenges. However, in...

    CSR can play a major role in companies’ competitiveness. As a strategic and management approach, CSR can help businesses to exploit the opportunities for innovation presented by current and future social and environmental challenges. However, in practice CSR activities are still rarely – or only to a limited degree – linked with innovation management.

     

    The project aimed to illustrate the effects of CSR on the various phases of the innovation cycle, and to develop suitable instruments and tools for SMEs and family businesses. This generated scientifically-based recommendations for ways in which SMEs and family businesses can optimise or implement innovation processes, on the basis of their CSR strategy and Goals.

     

    The project was funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency under the fourth call for the “Aufbau” line of the COIN – Cooperation & Innovation programme (programme owners/sponsors: Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology; Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy).

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    InRuTou - Innovation in Rural Tourism

    The InRuTou project aimed to address the challenges of rural mountain communities and to facilitate sustainable tourism in rural mountainous areas, by creating and testing a set of tools and innovative models and by training existing and new local...

    The InRuTou project aimed to address the challenges of rural mountain communities and to facilitate sustainable tourism in rural mountainous areas, by creating and testing a set of tools and innovative models and by training existing and new local tourism operators, which have various degrees of experience as well as different professional and educational backgrounds. The project brought together partners from universities, research institutes and regional development organisations from six countries (Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Romania, Poland, Ukraine) and its activities were implemented in six pilot areas located in five countries and across three different mountain ranges: the Alps, the Apennines and the Carpathians.

     

    The project was funded under the EU-Programme Lifelong Learning Programme.

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    HEI-up: Improvement of Business Process Management in Higher Education institutions

    SMEs and Enterprises, which perform their activities on the market usually have their core business processes well managed. Identified, documented, standardized, managed, automatized business processes ensure they stay competitive on the market....

    SMEs and Enterprises, which perform their activities on the market usually have their core business processes well managed. Identified, documented, standardized, managed, automatized business processes ensure they stay competitive on the market. Nowadays, HEIs (higher education institutions) are faced with a shift from mass education, almost uniform age group (adolescents), employment status of students and finance sourcing to very different position. HEIs should adapt to study programme specialisation, broader target age group (lifelong learning), already employed students, which come from companies and various sources and combinations of financing (state, tuitions, projects, services, ...). Not only private HEIs, public HEIs are faced with mentioned changes also to improve HEI clients (=students, employees, partners) satisfaction and to remain competitive, HEI’s should manage their business processes similar to Enterprises and SMEs. Therefore, a business process management knowledge transfer should be initiated and maintained. Business Process Management (BPM) methodologies should be adapted to HEI specifics. Additionally, best practices of business processes from the enterprises and SMEs should be gathered, analyzed, modified and compiled into unified methodology for management of HEIs. Constant flow of BPM knowledge between HEIs and enterprises should also be maintained, to ensure exchange of field-based BPM experiences and theoretical knowledge.

     

    The Project was funded under the EU Programme Lifelong Learning Programme.

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    Cultural (garden) heritage as a focal Point for sustainable Tourismus - CultTOUR

    Demand is growing for cultural tourism, a segment that stands out for its enormous variety of attractions on offer. However, very little research has been conducted in many areas of cultural tourism, including garden tourism. Parks, gardens and other...

    Demand is growing for cultural tourism, a segment that stands out for its enormous variety of attractions on offer. However, very little research has been conducted in many areas of cultural tourism, including garden tourism. Parks, gardens and other landscaped, green open spaces are now seen as important cultural attractions for tourist destinations, and are increasingly being developed to cater for tourists. Such locations also provide leisure opportunities for the local population, and can make a contribution to an area’s cultural identity and sustainable regional development.

     

    In the course of the three-year project, strategies and concepts were developed for preserving public and privately owned parks, gardens and other open spaces, and for their use in tourism. Feasibility studies were also conducted. A strategic management tool – the CultTour analysis tool – was developed to support parks and gardens managers in making their sites attractive to visitors and securing long-term income from tourism, while also taking account of environmental, economic and sociocultural sustainability.

     

    The project was funded by the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (2007-2013).

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    dEUcert - Dissemination of European Certification Schema ECQA

    The dEUcert project promoted the European Certification and Quality Association (ECQA) and its Services. In the course of the project, a unified version of dissemination material was elaborated in English language and translated in 13 local languages...

    The dEUcert project promoted the European Certification and Quality Association (ECQA) and its Services. In the course of the project, a unified version of dissemination material was elaborated in English language and translated in 13 local languages for 60.000 individual persons. The partners focused their research activities on the interest of local markets about usage of ECQA services for existing and for new qualification schemes and developed a database for interested parties on local market and to integrate them at European level. On the basis of the research activities the ECQA portal was improved and the content was updated.

     

    The project was funded by the EU-Programm Lifelong Learning.

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    EUCert. European Certificates Innovative Online Training Campus. Further development of an online learning platform system on the basis of the results of the EQN project. Lifelong Learning Programme.

    The objective of this project is to build on the established EU Certificates Association (www.eu-certificates.org, network for innovation in education, and pool of European professions applying the same quality and certification criteria in EU...

    The objective of this project is to build on the established EU Certificates Association (www.eu-certificates.org, network for innovation in education, and pool of European professions applying the same quality and certification criteria in EU countries based on the European Qualification framework, Aug 2005 – July 2007, Leonardo Network) and to integrate the results from a European research project which developed an integrated selective online learning platform system (EPI – Educational Partnership through ICT, 2003 – 2005, ) to build an online learning system for all the professions for training organisations from 14 European countries.

     

    The project was funded under the EU-Programme Lifelong Learning Programme.

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