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6.6.2013
Granting of the Theodor Körner Prize to Anna Schreuer
© Theodor Körner Fonds
Anna Schreuer was awarded the Theodor Körner prize 2013 for her PhD thesis “Dealing with the diffusion challenges of grassroots innovations: the case of citizen power plants in Austria and Germany”. Since 1953 this prize is awarded for outstanding work-in progress projects by young researchers and artists.
In her thesis Anna Schreuer looks at citizen power plants in Austria and Germany, in particular wind farms and photovoltaics plants that are collectively set up and operated by groups of citizens. The thesis aims to answer the question how such citizen power plants could emerge and how they spread out in Germany and Austria. The diffusion of citizen power plants is understood as an innovation process that involves both the diffusion of new technologies and new forms of organization in the energy system.
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28.11.2012
Design for the future – project DESIRE successfully concluded.
© IFZ - Stummer Diener
The project “DESIRE - The design of the future: materials, shapes, colors and emotions for a successful product” was successfully concluded in November 2012. The two year project in cooperation with two Italian partners - Agemont from Amaro and Certottica from Longarone – had the aim to increase the competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) by integrating design, innovative materials, color design and ecodesign in the production process of the firms. Three separate branches in the transborder area of Austria and Italy where chosen: knife industry (Friuli Venezia Giulia), glasses industry (Veneto) and carpenters (Carinthia).
The IFZ-team, led by Günter Getzinger, was responsible to integrate the Carinthian carpenters into the process of the project.
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27.10.2012
Colon cancer - Therapy precision to be improved
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Up to 5,000 patients in Austria are diagnosed with colon carcinom. In order to determine therapy that promises highest success physicians need precise knowledge of the given typ of tumor.
The Medical University of Graz, Graz University of Technology and IFZ – Inter-University Research Centre cooperate within a project to analyse the heterogeneity of tumor cells.
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