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Success through networks

Intensive collaboration with other research institutions of outstanding merit is a key prerequisite for ensuring ongoing excellence in an institution's performance. We place our faith in long-term networks with key partners from the research community and the world of business. For instance, Fraunhofer IAO was instrumental in establishing the Fraunhofer Innovation Engineering Center IEC in Bolzano, South Tyrol, where we are working together in international, multidisciplinary teams with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the Trade Association of South Tyrol on projects for small and medium-sized companies in the region.

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  • Steffen Koch

    Steffen Koch

    Production Management
    Fraunhofer IAO

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The flexible and effective pooling of different skills is also the watchword for our partnership with Zeppelin University (ZU) in Friedrichshafen. Our joint Center for Technology Management – eftek, supports companies in the Lake Constance region with a comprehensive range of services for recognizing and evaluating future technological trends as they emerge and for developing technological strategies for tomorrow's innovations.

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  • Marc Rüger

    Marc Rüger

    Technology Management
    Fraunhofer IAO

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Service which meets requirements

The IAO’s skills profile is particularly enhanced by its tightly-meshed links with other Fraunhofer institutes, which is one of the reasons we are associated with organizations such as the Fraunhofer Information and Communication Technology Group, which is the largest ICT research group in Europe. We also have close connections to the institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft that focus on production engineering. For example, the Fraunhofer IAO has successfully collaborated with the Fraunhofer IPA plus a current total of more than 30 business partners to establish the Digital Production innovation cluster.

Institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with their various areas of expertise also cooperate within the scope of Fraunhofer alliances and networks, where they join forces to develop and promote new, innovative research topics.

The IAO is involved in the following alliances and networks:


Shaping the future together

The Fraunhofer IAO is also actively involved in numerous other networks. Thanks to its intensive collaboration with other research institutions and the organizations represented within the networks, it succeeds in promoting both scientifically-oriented research and applied implementation of new instruments and methods in workplace practices. The following list shows some selected examples of the networks in which the Fraunhofer IAO is actively engaged: