A team of economists from the University of Passau has shown how Facebook ads can be used to identify people at risk of developing diabetes.
How will the future labor market look and are European education systems endowing the next generation with the skills they will need to succeed? These questions are at the heart of a new research project at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
What are the links between migrant career prospects and their working abroad in the EU? This was a guiding question of a research project coordinated by the University of Bamberg. The project aimed to develop a long-term approach to supporting migrant worker integration and combating labor shortages in the EU.
In collaboration with business partners, researchers are developing ways to improve mobility in rural regions and expand e-vehicle charging infrastructure.
Successful negotiating skills are important in business—but training this ability is both time-consuming and costly. To remedy this, researchers at HNU have combined speech recognition, artificial intelligence, machine learning and virtual reality to develop a virtual negotiation training.
Affective reactions—or gut feelings—play a key role in consumer decision-making. Researchers at the University of Passau are seeking to understand this process better and help consumers make better decisions.
The internet giants need smart regulation. At Passau University, Information Systems professor Jan Krämer and his team are developing models for this.
Hof / Jena, October 2025 – After three and a half years of intensive research, the joint project InSchuKa 4.0 has come to an end. Its goal: to use artificial intelligence to help sewer networks better respond to heavy rainfall and dry periods—enabling smarter adaptation to climate change.
Researchers at the University of Passau have had human examiners compete against OpenAI's ChatGPT – and were themselves surprised by some of the results. The study has been published in the renowned Nature journal Scientific Reports.
Eliminating toxic and expensive heavy metals in the chemical industry: A new publication in "Nature Chemistry" from the University of Würzburg points the way forward.
