Zwickau celebrates the Fraunhofer application center for innovation for ten years!

Zwickau celebrates the Fraunhofer application center for innovation for ten years!

The Fraunhofer application center for optical measurement technology (AZOM) in Zwickau recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. To celebrate the day, over 100 guests from administration, industry, science and politics came to the location on Keplerstrasse. The occasion not only offered space for reviews, but also for an outlook in the future, because the Azom has established itself as an important facility for practical research and tailor -made solutions for companies.

The team has now grown to over 40 people. This expansion testifies to the ongoing need and demand for high -quality research, especially for small and medium -sized companies. The application center supports projects of more than three million euros annually. The AZOM thus plays a central role in technology transfer and supports companies that do not have its own research department. This is done in close cooperation with the West Saxon University of Zwickau in order to link science and industry even better. The technology transfer is therefore not only promoted, but also expanded to strengthen the regional research location Zwickau, as reports.

research with practical relevance

The focus of the Azom is on the surface analysis and the development of technologies that help companies solve their challenges. What makes the application center unique in East Germany are the special offers that enable small and medium -sized companies to use valuable expertise in areas where they cannot do research themselves.

The Fraunhofer Society, which also includes Azom, pursues a clear mission: to bring technological innovations in business and society. The transfer of research knowledge into new products and services plays a crucial role. Direct cooperation as well as targeted training and further education are cornerstones of this strategy in order to adequately master central challenges of society such as digitization and sustainability issues. Successful projects have already been initiated, for example in tumor recognition with the help of artificial intelligence or the development of autonomously driving trucks.

With over 480 spin-offs founded since 2000, the Fraunhofer Society has demonstrated how important the exchange between research and the economy is. These outlets act as a bridge builder between the two areas and contribute significantly to the creation of new innovation jumps, which fraunhofer.de impressively illustrates.

Overall, the anniversary celebration of the AZOM shows that not only is it celebrated here, but that in the future it will continue to be researched and worked with good hands and a lot of commitment to promote the Zwickau region as an innovation location.