TransforMA
A collaborative project of the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim and the University of Mannheim
TransforMA: Transferring technologies and knowledge for actively shaping transformation processes
With the project titled “TransforMA – Transferring technologies and knowledge for actively shaping transformation processes”, the University of Applied Sciences Mannheim and the University of Mannheim collaborate to form a regional competence center for shaping transformation processes.
The University of Applied Sciences Mannheim has a focus on technology and research and is close to industrial players, while the University of Mannheim focuses on social sciences, business administration and economics and contributes aspects in the field of society and sustainability.
The goal of the ambitious plan of both higher education institutions is to strengthen the transfer of technologies and knowledge, to identify the demand of information in close collaboration with regional groups from economy and society and to shape transformation processes.
The project website is available here.
You will find the press release of the University of Mannheim on the collaborative project TransforMA here.
The five subprojects

Communication
We communicate activities that are relevant to the transfer in a joint newsroom, using internal and external communication channels.
Our annual regional conference is a forum for intensive exchange with the stakeholders and brings the various subprojects together.

Collaboration
We use various workshop formats that teach transformation skills with and within all stakeholder groups to test new, demand-based collaboration formats. Besides institutional collaborations and collaborations with companies, campus community partnerships for transfer culture. In the subproject, we develop helpful formats and methodologies.

Technology
Demonstrations from the field of robotics and artificial intelligence make technologies as solutions for transformation processes accessible.
The development of a specific database is intended to provide all stakeholders with easy technology and knowledge scouting opportunities and thus ensure low-threshold access to available knowledge and technologies at both universities.

Impact and effectiveness
What is relevant so that transformation processes reach the desired goals and non-desirable side effects can be avoided? By focusing on responsibility and sustainability, the project contributes to promoting self-competencies and resilience on an individual level by developing the relevant methodologies, instruments, and tools and testing those measures in a laboratory with real-life conditions. A subproject on Impact Entrepreneurship helps to implement projects which aim at balancing societal and economic interests.

Coordination and evaluation
We professionally manage all interfaces to the regional innovation system, support the process for transfer relevant activities, quality assurance, and evaluation.
Partners
The planned measures are for all regional stakeholders and enable innovative transformation processes in a diverse environment. Various partners of the regional innovation ecosystem will be involved in the future measures.
This includes innovation and industry networks as multipliers, technology and business incubators as places of technology and knowledge transfer as well as education initiatives which analyze the educational potential of societal transformations.
Our goal is to actively shape transformation processes.
TransforMA brings existing transfer activities and networks of the participating higher education institution together and uses them as catalyst for expanding the connections between higher education institutions, economy and society.
Transfer becomes an exchange process which considers the great transformation processes of our time and helps to actively shape them.
Contact
Head of the project and collaborations
Credit: Katrin GlücklerProf. Dr. Hiram Kümper
Project Lead TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Lehrstuhl für Spätmittelalter und Frühe Neuzeit
L 7, 7 – Room 306
68161 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-1330
Fax: +49 621 181-2249
E-mail: hiram.kuemper uni-mannheim.de
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6912-0874Consultation hour(s):
Please use the online tool on my personal staff member website to schedule an appointment.Credit: Katrin GlücklerJulia Derkau
Head of Educational Innovation and Project Lead TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Center for Teacher Education and Educational Innovation
Schloss – Room EO 084
68161 MannheimCredit: Katrin GlücklerImola Stark
Project coordinator for TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
L9/7, 6th floor – Room 601
68161 MannheimKatja Gutzmer
Assistant for TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Historisches Institut
L 7, 7 – 1.floor – Room 102
68161 MannheimContact subproject 1: Communication
Credit: Anna LogueDr. Maartje Koschorreck
Deputy Director of Communications / Media SpokeswomanUniversity of Mannheim
President's Office
Schloss Ostflügel
68161 MannheimCredit: Anna LogueDr. Andreas Margara (he/him)
Head of MarketingUniversity of Mannheim
President's Office
Schloss Ostflügel
68161 MannheimCredit: Anna LogueRheia Martiny, M.A. (she/her)
Press Officer for the joint project TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
President's Office
Schloss Ostflügel
68161 MannheimContact subproject 2: Collaboration
Credit: Katrin GlücklerJulia Derkau
Head of Educational Innovation and Project Lead TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Center for Teacher Education and Educational Innovation
Schloss – Room EO 084
68161 MannheimCredit: Anna LogueProf. Dr. Stefan Münzer
Professorship of Education PsychologyUniversity of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 206
68159 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-2221
E-mail: stefan.muenzer uni-mannheim.de
Web: www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/muenzerConsultation hour(s):
By appointement. Please contact us:
bildungspsychologie uni-mannheim.deCorinna Braun
Management Campus-Community-Partnerships TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Center for Teacher Education and Educational Innovation
Schloss – Room EO 083
68161 MannheimE-mail: corinna.Braun uni-mannheim.deContact subproject 3: Technology
Credit: Emilie OrglerProf. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Chair of Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Mannheim
School of Business Informatics and Mathematics
B 6, 26 – Room B 1.20
68159 MannheimConsultation hour(s):
Thu 11–12 a.m.Credit: Katrin GlücklerDr. Sabine Gehrlein
University LibrarianUniversity of Mannheim
University Library
Schloss Schneckenhof West – Room SW 281
68161 MannheimCredit: Alexander MünchLarissa Will, M.A.
Research Data Consultant (Digital Humanities)University of Mannheim
University Library
Schloss Schneckenhof West – Room SW 273
68161 MannheimCredit: Joseline WeinbergDr. Renat Shigapov
Consultant for Data Science and Data Scientist at the FDZ | Coordinator of the NFDI WG “Knowledge Graphs”University of Mannheim
University Library
Schloss Schneckenhof West – Room S 264.1
68161 MannheimContact subproject 4: Impact and effectiveness
Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship, Prof. Dr. Michael Woywode
University of Mannheim
Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship
Schloss
Ehrenhof Ost
68161 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-2273
Fax: +49 621 181-2892
E-mail: michael.woywode uni-mannheim.de
Web: www.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/woywodeCredit: Anna LogueProf. Dr. Georg W. Alpers
Managing Director Otto-Selz-InstituteUniversity of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 17 – Room 209
68161 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-2106
E-mail: alpers uni-mannheim.de
Web: sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/alpers
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9896-5158Prof. Dr. Hiram Kümper
Carl-Theodor-Professor | Project Lead TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Historisches Institut
L 7, 7 – Room 307
68161 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-1330
Fax: +49 621 181-2249
E-mail: hiram.kuemper uni-mannheim.de
Web: www.uni-mannheim.de/carl-theodor
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6912-0874Consultation hour(s):
Please use the online tool on my personal staff member website to schedule an appointment.Credit: Alexander MünchDr. Nora Zybura
Contact person for startupsTeam: EntrepreneurshipUniversity of Mannheim
MCEI/Institute for SME Research and Entrepreneurship
Schloss, Ehrenhof Ost – Room EO 271
68161 MannheimAbir Al-Laham, M.A. (she/her)
Academic StaffUniversity of Mannheim
Historisches Institut
Carl-Theodor-Professur Historisches Institut L 7, 7, Raum 304
68161 MannheimLarisa Czajka, M.Sc.
University of Mannheim
Lehrstuhl für Klinische und Biologische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
L13, 17 (2.floor) – Room 211
68131 MannheimDr. Dorothee Karl
Staff member “Responsibility and Sustainability”University of Mannheim
Postadresse: Carl-Theodor-Professur
L 9, 6 – Room ground floor, 002
68161 MannheimE-mail: dorothe.karl uni-mannheim.deNicolas Bechler
Doctoral CandidateUniversity of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15–17 – Raum 211
68161 MannheimE-mail: nicolas.bechler uni-mannheim.deContact subproject 5: Coordination and evaluation
Prof. Dr. Hiram Kümper
Carl-Theodor-Professor | Project Lead TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Historisches Institut
L 7, 7 – Room 307
68161 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-1330
Fax: +49 621 181-2249
E-mail: hiram.kuemper uni-mannheim.de
Web: www.uni-mannheim.de/carl-theodor
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6912-0874Consultation hour(s):
Please use the online tool on my personal staff member website to schedule an appointment.Credit: Katrin GlücklerJulia Derkau
Head of Educational Innovation and Project Lead TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
Center for Teacher Education and Educational Innovation
Schloss – Room EO 084
68161 MannheimCredit: Anna LogueProf. Dr. Stefan Münzer
Professorship of Education PsychologyUniversity of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 206
68159 MannheimPhone: +49 621 181-2221
E-mail: stefan.muenzer uni-mannheim.de
Web: www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/muenzerConsultation hour(s):
By appointement. Please contact us:
bildungspsychologie uni-mannheim.deCredit: Katrin GlücklerImola Stark
Project coordinator for TransforMAUniversity of Mannheim
L9/7, 6th floor – Room 601
68161 MannheimCredit: Katrin GlücklerAstrid Kickum
Staff member for Educational InnovationUniversity of Mannheim
Center for Teacher Education and Educational Innovation
Schloss – Room EO 083
68161 MannheimE-mail: astrid.kickum uni-mannheim.de