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News from Fraunhofer USA

Fraunhofer USA Awarded Patent for Detecting Air Leakage in Buildings Using Communicating Thermostats

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Fraunhofer USA with a patent for algorithms that detect and quantify air leakage from single-family homes using data from commercially available communicating, thermostats.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)

Deepen your Knowledge in the Most Modern Areas of Computer Science

Let´s create the digital world together! At the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, we want to unite students from all over the world in their spirit of innovation. Join HPI!

News from Campus OWL

More sustainability, less waste: intelligent production facilities for small baked goods

A consortium from research and industry is examining how the manufacturing process for rolls, doughnuts, pretzels could be made more sustainable.

News from Universität Hamburg

Social Change More Important than Physical Tipping Points

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is currently not plausible, as is shown in a new, central study released by Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS).

News from TU Berlin

Call for Applications: International Alumni Workshop “EDSusChoice”

Apply now for TU Berlin’s international alumni workshop “Enabling the dietary shift towards sustainable food choice decisions (EDSusChoice)” taking place from September 10 to 16 in Berlin, Germany.

DWIH New York x SXSW

6 Questions with Lutz Leichsenring

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Lutz Leichsenring, co-founder of “VibeLab”, and DWIH New York partner in the organization of a joint event during “South by Southwest” (SXSW) in Austin, TX.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)

HPI and MIT Collaborate Through New Joint Research Program “Designing for Sustainability”

On November 2, Hasso-Plattner-Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a collaboration in New York City that aims to tackle global societal challenges as expressed in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The program will drive joint scientific research at both institutes in the areas of sustainable design, innovation, computer science and digital technologies, as well as in the translation of research results into practice.