Design Thinking: How start-up teams and companies can become more creative and innovative – Prof. Dr. Harald von Korflesch

Prof. Dr. Harald von Korflesch explains the concepts behind Design Thinking and the special approach used at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Within the framework of a DT workshop in November, we also interviewed DT expert Dr. Isabel Creuznacher. Interested? You can already register via this link

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First KTUR Summer School on Entrepreneurship – a perfect example of successful trinational and intercultural cooperation

From Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, around 30 students and PhDs from 8 KTUR partner universities and 12 different nationalities came together in Freiburg, Basel and Strasbourg for the KTUR Summer School on Entrepreneurship to get a compact insight into how to turn an idea into a business – an inspiring experience for all parties involved!

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Digital Platform for Knowledge & Tech Transfer – “Faster, better, easier and more transparent KTT”

Led by the question: “How can we improve knowledge and tech transfer activities in the Upper Rhine valley, to bridge academic discoveries and needs from the industry?”, the KTUR team has worked closely together on building a digital platform for Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Upper Rhine region.

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The SPARK Trinational ideas competition ends on a high note

SPARK 2021 has been an exciting journey for the 13 student teams and their mentors! In the end, all teams pitched their impressive results in front of a panel of judges, who had the tough task to choose winners for the three categories: Sustainability, Scalability and Social Impact .

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Ahead of the game at the Trinatronics competition

At this year’s mechatronics competition Trinatronics, organized by the trinational university alliance TriRhenaTech, students from the three KTUR partner universities DHBW Lörrach, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and Université Haute Alsace Mulhouse won the two prizes in mixed teams. An outstanding success!

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