The Seed Fund supports the development of individual or collaborative research proposals for external funding and provides initial funding to advance the projects.
Our.House is a research network dedicated to the transformation of Germany's single-family housing stock. The goal is to develop sustainable and scalable transformation strategies to address the environmental and social challenges associated with this type of housing. The network brings together expertise from various disciplines and focuses on coordinating inter- and transdisciplinary consortia to secure research funding and initiate collaborations with external partners.
The project involves the following chairs and participants:
- Professorship of Urban Design: Prof. Dr. Benedikt Boucsein, Dr. Jan Engelke
- Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design: Prof. Thomas Auer, M.Sc. Christian Hepf
- Professorship of Architectural Design, Rebuilding, and Conservation: Prof. Andreas Hild, M.A. Valerie Kronauer
- Chair of Architecture and Timber Construction: Prof. Stephan Birk, M.A. Jonas Pauli
- Chair of Urban Structure and Transport Planning: Benjamin Büttner (tbc)
- Eniano GmbH: Tobias Eder
Scrapyard4future focuses on the development of concepts for (partially) automated waste separation and recycling. The project addresses the short- and medium-term automation of landfills and the long-term alignment of product design with simplified reuse of raw materials. The goal is to create a roadmap for a circular economy and to establish the technical basis for economically viable resource use.
The project involves the following chairs and participants
- Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics: Prof. Dr. Johannes Fottner
- Chair of Ergonomics: Prof. Dr. Klaus Bengler
- Chair of Metal Forming and Casting: Prof. Dr. Peter Mayr
- Chair of Automation and Information Systems: Prof. Dr. Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Both projects will receive initial funding for the further development of their innovative ideas and to contribute to the solution of pressing challenge