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.
It’s not just what is said, but how it is said: A study from the University of Augsburg examines how the voice of service robots influences customer perceptions after service failures
Hof – Today, artificial intelligence can describe images, recognize objects, and explain complex relationships. The pace of development is remarkable: so-called vision-language models (VLMs) combine text and image understanding in impressive ways. Yet, of all things, they struggle with a seemingly simple task—counting. Researchers at the Institute for Information Systems (iisys) at Hof University of Applied Sciences are now working to address this issue.
Hof, March 31, 2026 – The plastics industry is facing a major challenge: it must increasingly use recycled materials while delivering the same quality as virgin plastics. This is exactly where the “SmartReUSE” project comes in. Funded by the European Union and the Free State of Bavaria, it pursues a clear goal: to process plastic waste in such a way that it can be reliably and efficiently used in new products at a high quality level.
