Together with its strong partners, the Berlin School of Economics and Law, the Berlin School of Engineering and Economics and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT), ASH Berlin bundles research expertise from Berlin for Berlin and beyond in the IFAF.
And it has been doing so for 15 years now! The anniversary is a good reason to celebrate, to look back together on what has been achieved, but above all to look forward!
"IFAF has developed a unique selling point: interdisciplinary, applied research in cooperation with the regional economy, professional practice and urban society," says ASH Vice-Rector and IFAF Chairwoman Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär in an interview on the occasion of IFAF Berlin's 15th anniversary. "This potential is unique in Berlin."
Read more: Here is the complete interview "Together for sustainable solutions" with Prof. Dr. Gesine Bär about innovation, practical relevance and the future of IFAF Berlin...
In the IFAF Berlin projects, science, business and non-profit organizations benefit from each other.
For 15 years, the four participating universities have been working together with IFAF Berlin to promote science and applied research by providing non-material and financial support for joint projects.
Climate change, health crises, the threat to our democracy
In this way, "the Berlin universities of applied sciences contribute to solving concrete challenges with their application-oriented research," says
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Molthagen-Schnöring, Vice President for Research and Transfer at HTW Berlin and IFAF board member, and specifically names "climate change, health crises, the threat to our democracy" as important topics of the network in an interview (read more here) !
Each of the four universities forms a competence center within the network; in the case of ASH Berlin, the focus is on integration and health. It supports and acts as a contact point for research projects that deal with practical action in the areas of integration and health and with current changes and further developments that are taking place there.
More about...
... the history and work of the Institute for Applied Research (IFAF Berlin) on its homepage.
... Research at ASH Berlin, about funding, profile and e.g. an A-Z of projects can be found here on the ASH website.
