Published on 24.10.2018 under News
Connect digital and social innovation with Emscher-Lippe hoch 4
Developing strategies for the application and introduction of digitization in the world of work and society, that is the goal of the “Emscher-Lippe4: Experience digitization in the learning and demonstration laboratory for innovation, integration, transfer and education ”.
Under the leadership of the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences (HRW), eight project partners are participating in the 3,4 million research projects, including the Düsseldorf company matrix. For several years, matrix has been focusing on the use of technological innovations to solve social problems. With the BMBF project “HelpCamps”, matrix brought people with disabilities together with aid manufacturers, medical supply stores and the so-called maker scene, and built up a community in order to use modern technologies to develop and implement ideas to make everyday life easier. The online platform “MatchMyMaker” is consistently continuing this project in digital form with the support of matrix and is currently being set up after successfully participating in the Google.org Impact Challenge 2018.
“In the Emscher-Lippe project4 Together with our partners and other actors, we would now like to transfer the nationwide network principle to a specific region and develop it further, ”says matrix project manager Niels Lichtenthäler. "A regional community is to be created through the establishment of regional structures and the implementation of smaller co-design projects for the production of aids and assistance systems." can support each other in this.
Kick-off event with Minister Pinkwart on November 7, 2018
The kick-off event for Emscher-Lippe4 takes place
on November 07th, 2018, from 16.00 p.m.,
in the Bottrop pay hall.
The project will be opened by Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart (Minister for Economy, Innovation, Digitization and Energy NRW), Bernd Tischler (Lord Mayor of the City of Bottrop) and Prof. Dr. Oliver Koch (Vice President Research and Transfer at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences).
The joint project is funded from the “Umbau21 - Smart Region” program over a period of three years. In addition to the matrix and HRW, the following are involved: The city of Bottrop, the workshops of the Diakonisches Werk Bottrop-Gladbeck-Dorsten, the Bochum University of Health, the Dortmund Social Research Center, the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (CPS.HUB) and the Development Company for Education, Training and Employment ( eba gGmbH).
More information about the project at www.el4.org.
