Project overview

We are working on forward-looking research and development projects in a large number of projects with national and international partners.

Current projects

ADAPT - Implementation of an adaptive continuing education support system in the field of nursing

The aim is to digitally support individual learning processes of professional nursing staff; to make learning environments more needs-oriented; to promote access to continuing vocational education and training; and to provide more targeted support for the applicability of professional development measures.

Duration:
1 May 2021 – 30 April 2024

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AI4VET4AI - AI-powered Next Generation of VET

Science is clear: Artificial Intelligence will be the defining development of the 21st century. Experts estimate that due to the rise of AI within only 2 decades aspects of daily human life will be unrecognisable. The influence of AI is about to challenge the very organising principles of our economic and social order. It can generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionise medicine and education, but it can bring existential perils for life as we know it. This makes the EC2020 report that the EU is lagging behind USA and Asia in AI-adoption and development all the more worrying. Among many reasons behind that, the lack of skilled work force is definitively one of the more prominent ones. The objective of AI4VET4AI is to contribute to the digital transformation of the EU labour market by adding new innovative teaching content and methods to VET curricula across 11 European countries and 18 EU NUTS2 regions, in order to support the growth of AIskilled workers. We start from the ground up: we investigate the most potent sectors for AI-deployment in our 17 regions, and for those sectors, in close cooperation with enterprises and their cluster organisations we create 14 MOOCs and TT materials that can easily be implemented in VET programmes (IVET and CVET). We organise 11 innovative AI VET campuses and 7 VET innovation AI incubators, in which VET learners hone their creative and entrepreneurial skills. We use project activities to connect partners closely and to raise awareness of the AI potential in our regions among representatives of public and private sector, as well as civil society. In turn, this helps us to create a joint and active platform of concerned EU citizens and institutions, interested, informed and motivated in supporting AI development further -- this being the basis of our ambitious CoVE, which aims to attract many more institutions (HEIs, VETs, companies, agencies, individuals) in its pursuit of sustainable, inclusive and just AI-powered future for all.

Duration:
June 2023 - June 2027

AV-EFI - Automated interlocking system for audiovisual holdings via uniform film identifiers

In the AV-EFI project, a cross-institutional, web-based system is being developed and tested, with Persistent Identifiers (PID) in a central role. This system will serve to identify and link films, their versions and data objects from heterogeneous collections.

Duration:
November 2023 – October 2025

B!SON NDS - B!SON in Lower Saxony

Support for scientific institutions with the local integration and configuration of B!SON

Duration:
February 2023 – December 2023

BITS - BluePrints for the Integration of Terminology Services in Earth System Sciences

A Terminology Service (TS) will be established at the TIB for subfields of Earth System Science and integrated into two data repositories (DKRZ and SGN). The experience will be used to create blueprints for connecting other repositories to the TS

Duration:
July 2023 – Juny 2026

CRAFT-OA - Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access

Advancement of institutional publishing services within the diamond open access model

Duration:
January2023 – December 2025

DALIA - Knowledge base for "FAIR data usage and supply"

Development of an Open Educational Content Recommendation system (as a knowledge base) in the field of Research Data Management (RDM)

Duration:
November 2022 – October 2025

DiASPora - Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information (BacDive & Semantics)

The project DiASPora will establish an approach for synthesizing information for bacterial species by applying state-of-the-art data science methodology, genomics, and developing user-centric workflows

Duration:
May 2020 – August 2023

FakeNarratives - Understanding Narratives of Disinformation: a Comparison between Public Service and Alternative News Videos

The goal of FakeNarratives is to understand narratives of disinformation in public service and alternative news videos using methods of discourse and language analysis, as well as machine learning and visual analytics.

Duration:
October 2021- September 2024

FID BAUdigital - Specialised Information Service Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Studies digital

The aim of Specialised Information Service Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban studies digital (FID BAUdigital) is to create a single access point and targeted services for the subject areas of civil engineering, architecture and urban planning, enabling scholars to gain quick, easy access to specialist literature and to information relevant to research.

Duration:
July 2020 – June 2023

FID Materials Science - Scientific Information Service for Materials Science

The goal is to develop and sustainably establish the specialised information service as a supraregional, central MatWerk portal.

Duration:
2021 - 2024

FID move - Specialised Information Service Mobility and Transport

In its second term, the FID move is pursuing the goal of making the specialised information service and its diverse and customised services better known in the community of mobility and transport research and of establishing the FID move as a central information platform for the research community.

Duration:
April 2021 – March 2024

GESAH+ - Digitisation and specialist indexing of the graphic stocks of the collection of architect Albrecht Haupt

In the GESAH+ project, the digitisation and indexing of the Albrecht Haupt Collection is being continued. The aim is to make this important collection digitally available to the public. The cataloguing tool TIB SAH digital will be further expanded.

Duration:
February 2023 – January 2026

IDAHO - IDentificAtion of hurdles to open access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties - epistemic injustice in scientific publishing

IDAHO identifies barriers and hurdles to OA publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties, assesses the impact of OA journal policies and identifies ways to remove the hurdles.

Duration:
September 2023 – August 2025

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InArbeit - Intelligenter Arbeitsmarkt? Auswirkungen der KI-Transformation auf Berufe, Branchen und Regionen

 

As a future and key technology with far-reaching consequences for economic development, artificial intelligence (AI) is central to the future competitiveness of companies, industries and therefore also regions. AI will lead to far-reaching changes in the labour market, and these changes will vary greatly between professions, sectors and regions. On the one hand, activities are at risk of being replaced by AI (displacement effect), while on the other hand AI offers enormous growth potential in many sectors and regions (productivity effect). In order to investigate this AI transformation, international labour market research has so far focused primarily on the question of which activities in which occupations could be replaced by AI in the future. However, this substitutability potential does not make it possible to capture the actual changes on the labour market, such as changes in demand. The Intelligent Labour Market? project therefore aims to capture the changes in the labour market based on AI demand in occupations, sectors and regions and thus to investigate the employment effects of the AI transformation.

In order to capture AI demand on the labour market, a new data set is being created in the project based on online job advertisements. This goal is supported by Dr Gábor Kismihók (Data Scientist at LUH). In collaboration with Dr Anne Otto from IAB - the research institute of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) - the AI demand indicator will be developed and validated on the basis of the extensive online data. This indicator makes it possible to statistically model the relationship between AI and employment in order to better understand the effects of the AI transformation. In addition, the automotive industry in particular, as a key sector in Germany, is facing major upheavals as a result of the AI transformation. The AI demand indicator and other output-oriented indicators are therefore used for a case study on the AI transformation within the automotive industry in order to compare the automotive clusters in Lower Saxony, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.

In addition to the scientific investigation of the effects, the project also aims to make the AI demand indicator available to a broad public and to discuss its results with Lower Saxony's economic development agencies. To this end, a new web application, the AI Atlas, is being developed to make the indicator available to the public online. An AI skills report for Lower Saxony will also be compiled in order to summarise a more in-depth analysis of the AI transformation of the labour market for policymakers and regional stakeholders and also to record gender differences in the supply and demand of AI skills on the labour market.

Duration:
2023 - 2025

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InSuKa - Intelligent search engine for finding optimized rubber compounds

Development of a digital InSuKa app for the rubber industry to increase the efficiency of material and production development along the manufacturing process of elastomer products. 

Duration:
June 2023 – May 2026

KOALA-AV - Building, expanding and anchoring consortial open access solutions

KOALA-AV is dedicated to establishing consortial funding models for APC-free Open Access publishing ("Diamond Open Access"). In this way, it supports the sustainable anchoring of science-friendly alternatives to fee-based publishing.

Duration:
September 2023 – August 2025

KOMET - Collaborative enrichment of the metadata commons to foster a diverse OA ecosystem

The KOMET project promotes the transformation of science towards a diverse and participatory OA culture by supporting independent, oftentimes scholar-led OA journals in professionalising their metadata processes.

Duration:
September 2023 – August 2025

Leibniz AI Academy - Hybrid Micro-Degrees for Academic Training

Development and establishment of a transcurricular, cross-disciplinary micro-degree program "Leibniz AI Academy" at Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)

Duration:
Devember 2021 – November 2025

Leibniz Data Manager (LDM-Explore) - A tool to search and explore digital artefacts across different repositories and evaluate their potential re-use

LDM-Explore offers a simple, small-scale and open software distribution to enable research data managent within and across digital repositories

Duration:
September 2020 – August 2023

Mehr-OA - Benefits of open access for data-driven research and development – finding, comparing and linking open access publications more easily

Illustrate the benefits of Open Access for individual researchers.
Advance machine-supported reuse of openly accessible scientific knowledge.
Interlink open scientific knowledge with data, patents, instruments, and other information.
Use the potential of open-access repositories for publishing innovative publications formats.

Duration:
September 2023 – August 2026

NFDI4Chem - Chemistry consortium with the National Research Data Infrastructure NFDI

The aim of NFDI4Chem is to build an open and FAIR infrastructure for research data management in chemistry

Duration:
October 2020 – September 2025

NFDI4Culture - Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage

NFDI4Culture aims to improve the research data infrastructure in the fields of musicology, art history and architecture, performance, theater, film and media studies together with the respective scientific communities.

Duration:
October 2020 - September 2025

NFDI4Ing - National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences

NFDI4Ing aims to create a common environment for the secure management and re-use of engineering research data. For this purpose, so-called archetypes were defined within a bottom-up process, which describe the research methods and processes used in the engineering sub-disciplines.

Duration:
October 2020 – September 2025

OER-Portal NDS - Development of an OER portal for Lower Saxony

The aim of the project is to establish a portal for free educational materials to support teachers in creating and compiling high-quality course materials. In the first step, the platform will be set up and evaluated in the context of universities in Lower Saxony.

Duration:
August 2019 – 31 July 2023

open-access.network 2 - Joint project: Competence and networking platform in the field of Open Access

Creation of information material, organisation of training events and networking opportunities on open access publishing (with a focus on Germany).

Duration:
January 2023 – December 2025

OSCAR - Online, open learning recommendations and mentoring towards Sustainable research CAReers

Duration:
September 2020 – August 2023

PANTER - Publishing ANalytics TrackER

PANTER establishes an open monitor for funding models, prices, and price developments in the open access journal market. 

Duration:
September 2023 – August 2025

PID Network Deutschland - Network for fostering persistent identifiers in science and culture

The aim of the project "PID Network Germany" is to establish a network of already existing and currently emerging actors in research and culture that promotes and consolidates the application, implementation, standardization and international connectivity of PID systems at local, national and international level.

Duration:
2023 – 2026

Remember Me! - Digitally unlocking memories and places

Duration:
December 2021 – May 2023

ReMO - Researcher Mental Health Observatory

Duration:
October 2020 - October 2024

Research Data Management Tailored Forming - Vocabulary-oriented research data management for tailored forming process chains

The aim of the INF project is the development of an adapted research data and knowledge management system in the SFB 1153.

Duration:
July 2023 – June 2027 (3rd funding period)

SC³ - Semantically Connected Semiconductor Supply Chains

Duration:
October 2020 – November 2023

ScienceGRAPH - Knowledge Graph based Representation, Augmentation and Exploration of Scholarly Communication

In ScienceGRAPH we aim to develop a novel principled model for representing, analysing, augmenting and exploiting scholarly communication in a knowledge-based way by expressing and linking scientific contributions and related artefacts through semantically rich, interlinked knowledge graphs.

Duration:
1 May 2019 – 30 April 2024

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TIB AV-Analytics - Development of a software platform for systematic film and video analysis

The goal of the project TIB-AV-A is the development of a web-based software platform that enables media and film scientists, but also scientists from other disciplines, to apply machine learning methods for automatic film and video analysis. 

Duration:
January 2021 – December 2023

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TOERN - Sharing Open Educational Resources on the National Education Platform

Duration:
October 2021 – March 2022 (design and validation phase)
September 2022 – August 2024 (implementation phase)

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Train-the-Trainer - Supporting Online Teaching, Promoting Open Education: Train-the-Trainer Program for Student Assistants

The goal of the project is the development and implementation of a continuing education program for student assistants in in Lower Saxony's universities that focuses on the development of open educational materials for online teaching

Duration:
June 2020 – July 2027

TrustKG - A Framework for Knowledge Graphs based on Semantic Integration, Representation, and Curation of Scientific Data to enable Trustable and Interpretable Knowledge Exploration and Discovery

The project will develop computational methods for transforming biomedical data into semantically rich and linked knowledge graphs. These methods will enable interpretable large-scale data integration to empower Artificial Intelligence with semantic descriptions and transparency.

Duration:
October 2021 – September 2026

ViP@Scale - Visual and Multimodal Patent Search at Scale

The goal of this project is to develop novel deep learning approaches for information extraction from text and images in multimodal patents to improve search in large patent collections.

Duration:
April 2023 – March 2025

WBsmart - A smart, AI-based digital further education space for elderly care by means of personalised recommendation systems

WBsmart deals with an AI-based digital training space for elderly care by means of personalised recommendation systems to address priority III of the INVITE call for proposals with regard to the development and testing of teaching and learning offers supported by artificial intelligence (AI). The AI is implemented as a recommendation system in the form of personalised learning recommendations based on a semantic knowledge graph and stored job and skill profiles.

Duration:
September 2021 – August 2024

WikiRemembrance - Researching and remembering National Socialism using participatory platforms such as Wikidata

Developing a new digital knowledge culture between the hope for more openness and sustainability, and the fear of hate speech and abuse

Duration:
August 2023 – October 2024

Completed projects

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