Current Projects

Funding Period: 01.07.2024 - 31.12.2027
Contact Person(s): Prof. Dr. Cristoph Lüth, Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler

The KiMeKo partners have acquired many skills in previous KI-Med projects - in particular KI-SIGS funded by the BMWK and KI-Lab funded by the BMFTR - but these are decentralized, unsystematized and in need of supplementation. This is precisely the aim of the five KiMeKo sub-projects: to bundle and deepen expertise in such a way that the KI-Med ecosystem can offer standardized services, i.e. methods, tools and workflows, as far as possible.

On this basis, the Al-Med collaboration platform is intended to ensure that, on the one hand, the collaboration between medical professionals, IT specialists and companies (the stakeholder groups), which is essential for Al-Med applications, is made significantly more efficient (faster and qualitatively improved); in order to implement larger - possibly also disruptive - strategic Al-Med applications with truly broad usage potential in healthcare with a higher chance of success. And on the other hand, the aim is to accelerate the development of such Al-Med innovations to such an extent that Al-Med medical products can actually be developed with regulatory approval, which alone find their way into healthcare and thus enable economic value creation in the healthcare system and for companies.

The five sub-projects are all being carried out by the universities' IT institutes with the advisory involvement of clinics and companies, as the intention is not yet to develop Al-Med applications as such, but to create the strong conditions that will enable them to scale in the context of the Al-Med ecosystem in the future.

This project is funded by the DLR-Projektr?ger (German Aerospace Center).

Funded project partners:

• Universit?t Bremen
• Universit?tsmedizin Greifswald
• Universit?tsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Technische Universit?t Hamburg (TU Hamburg)
• Universit?t zu Lübeck
• UniTransferKlinik Lübeck
• Universit?t Rostock

Project website: Link 
 

Funding Period: 15.11.2023 - 14.11.2026
Contact Person(s): Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler, Dr. Lena Steinmann

As part of this project, the interdisciplinary Data Competence Center for the Bremen Region, ?DataNord“, is being established. The center offers researchers at all career levels opportunities to enhance their data skills. These include, among others, training sessions, hackathons, consulting services, research projects, and networking opportunities.

As part of the U Bremen Research Alliance – the cooperative network of the University of Bremen and twelve non-university research institutes – and in close collaboration with additional partners, DataNord is being developed as an interdisciplinary data competence center. It serves as a hub for interdisciplinary and interinstitutional learning, research, and networking in data science within the Bremen region. The alliance's profile areas include (1) environmental and marine sciences, (2) social sciences, (3) materials and engineering sciences, (4) health sciences, and (5) humanities. 

The DataNord umbrella project is managed by the Data Science Center, with the University of Bremen acting as the consortium coordinator. As part of our subproject, key offerings are being developed in the areas of learning, research, and networking. A team of data scientists has been established to provide trainings und consulting servicesfor researchers across all career levels and disciplines. Additionally, the research projects MRI4All  and SynData  are being implemented as part of the Research Academy. These applied initiatives aim to deeply embed data competencies into the research process.

The project is funded by the BMBF and financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

Funded Project Partners:
Universit?t Bremen (koordinierende Einrichtung)
Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Institut für Informationsmanagement Bremen GmbH (ifib)
Leibniz-Institut für Pr?ventionsforschung und Epidemiologie - BIPS
U Bremen Research Alliance e.V.

Additional Links: 
DataNord Project Website
Information about the BMFTR Research Program

Funding Period: 01.12.2022 - 30.04.2023
Contact Person(s): Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler, Dr. Lena Steinmann

During the five-month concept phase, a detailed implementation plan will be developed for establishing the interdisciplinary Data Competence Center for the Bremen Region, ?DataNord“.

As part of the U Bremen Research Alliance – a cooperative network established in 2016 comprising the University of Bremen and twelve non-university research institutes – and in close collaboration with other institutions in Bremen as well as the regional NFDI consortia, an interdisciplinary Data Competence Center (acronym: DataNord) with strong national networking will be established. The center will focus on the data science needs and diverse research data of the scientific priorities rooted in the region and cooperating nationally and internationally at the University of Bremen: ?Marine, Polar, and Climate Research“, ?Social Change, Social Policy, and the State“, ?Materials Science and Technologies“, ?Health Sciences“, and ?Minds, Media, Machines“. DataNord will consolidate regional research data expertise and enable synergetic integration with existing structures and initiatives. Two central pillars of DataNord are the Data Science Center (DSC) at the University of Bremen and the interdisciplinary doctoral training program ?Data Train – Training in Research Data Management and Data Science“. The planned activities of DataNord in the fields of learning, research, and networking are synergistically aligned to sustainably strengthen data science competencies among researchers at all career levels. DataNord’s interdisciplinary approach will harness Bremen’s regional strengths to build bridges between various disciplines through shared methodologies, breaking down competence silos well beyond the region.

The project is funded by the BMBF and financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.