University Innovation Award

Background to the Innovation Award

From the point of view of the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, practical projects are an important element of practice-based teaching. They offer students the opportunity to test the knowledge and skills acquired in their previous studies in concrete tasks of professional reality. In addition, key qualifications such as project management, time management, self-organization and personal responsibility, teamwork skills and presentation techniques are acquired or deepened.

For companies, the practical projects offer an opportunity to come into contact with the university on a specific specialist topic and to build up a network with both lecturers and potential junior staff.

University Innovation Award 2016: Lecture series on technology and environmental ethics

For 2016, university scientists were eligible to apply in the topic area of "Social Responsibility."

In 2016, the prize went to a group of lecturers from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Technical Journalism - Professors Katharina Seuser, Susanne Keil, Dieter Franke and Uwe Wiemken, as well as Wolfgang Koch and Sabine Fricke - for the lecture series on technology and environmental ethics. Since 2013, the lecture series has always taken place in the summer semester. It is a compulsory lecture for students of technical journalism, but is also a public event.

University Innovation Award 2015: micrOzone

In 2015, Professor Dr. Gerd Knupp was awarded for the research project "micrOzone: micro-disinfection system for decentralized disinfection of water distribution systems".

In cooperation with the Rheinbach-based company Innovatec Gerätetechnik GmbH and the Institute of Solar Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Knupp is working on developing a novel system for the disinfection of water, or rather water-bearing system components. The scientists working together on the project hope to ensure high water quality and hygienically safe water in the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries.

2014 University Innovation Award: sustainable electromobility

The 2014 University Innovation Award honored a project that realizes this dovetailing of academic education and practical relevance in an exemplary manner:

The 2014 prize went to students Lukas Gemein, Tobias Haedecke, Maurits van de Velde (all mechanical engineering, 6th semester) and Matthias Metzen (master's program in mechatronics) and their two supervisors (Prof. Dr. Dirk Reith and Prof. Dr. Rainer Bastert) for their project on sustainable electromobility. It emerged from the activities of BRS motorsport e. V..

Previous award winners

• Innovation Award 2015 to Prof. Gerd Knupp
• Innovation Award 2014 to Gemein/Haedecke/van de Velde/Metzen/Reith/Bastert (at the opening of the Academic Year 2014/15)
• Innovation Award 2013 to Prof. Edda Tobiasch and Prof. Margit Schulze
• Innovation Award 2012 to Prof. Elvira Jankowski and Manfred Bretz (at the opening of the Academic Year 2012/13)
• Innovation Award 2011 to Prof. Marco Winzker
• Innovation Award 2010 to Prof. Peter Kaul