LOEWE projects of the University of Kassel extended

The "Safer Materials" project, for example, is being funded for a further year with around 720,000 euros (spokesman Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Heim). The project is creating methods and technical know-how to make materials - e.g. metals - safe and reliable even at their performance limits and under various external influences. More at: https://www.uni-kassel.de/projekte/safer-materials/startseite.html

The research project "Desirable Impediments to Learning" will also receive around 700,000 euros for another year (coordinator Prof. Dr. Mirjam Ebersbach). It is investigating the targeted installation of obstacles to more effective learning. These include, for example, the distribution of learning time over several learning opportunities or the alternating processing of different topics during learning. More at: http://www.uni-kassel.de/projekte/forschungsprojekt-lernen/startseite.html

In addition, the University of Kassel is involved in the LOEWE project NICER through the Department of Distributed Systems (Prof. Dr. Kurt Geihs), which is also being funded for another year (710,000 euros, coordinated by TU Darmstadt). Here, an emergency communication network for crisis situations is being developed, which is based on decentralized communication "islands". More at: https://www.uni-kassel.de/eecs/iteg/forschung/aktuelle-projekte/nicer.html

The State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence - LOEWE for short - is a program with which the state of Hesse has been strengthening the research landscape and funding outstanding collaborative scientific projects since 2008.

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