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
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.
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.
