Current Projects

AI in museums

2026-2027
Funded by State of Lower Saxony and VolkswagenStiftung, zukunft.niedersachsen
The provision of metadata from museums for research is undergoing a transformative development through the use of AI. Metadata containing information about objects in museum collections can be analyzed by AI methods to generate profound insights and connections between different ... more
Funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
In the GeoRek project, geodetic methods are being developed in cooperation with German and Ukrainian partner universities for teaching, research, and practice for measures to rebuild destroyed objects in Ukraine. To this end, micro-certificates are being offered in various subjec... more

Spatial AI Center

2025-2030
Funded by State of Lower Saxony and VolkswagenStiftung, zukunft.niedersachsen
The establishment of an AI center focusing on spatial AI (“Spatial AI Center”) is part of the research project “Potenziale strategisch entfalten”. With “Potenziale strategisch entfalten”, Jade University is taking a decisive step toward developing its identity... more
Funded by Metropolregion Nordwest, Amt für regionale Landesentwicklung Weser-Ems, Landkreis Oldenburg, WLO Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft für den Landkreis Oldenburg mbH
In June 2024, the legislature extensively amended the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) with the aim of accelerating immission control approval procedures and implementing EU law. The normative foundation of digital processes in conjunction with the requirement for ... more
Funded by State of Lower Saxony and VolkswagenStiftung, zukunft.niedersachsen
There are hundreds of thousands of artefacts in German museums that were brought to Europe during the colonial era as a result of wars, looting or trade. The history of these objects - where they came from, what they were used for and who once owned them - is often incompletely d... more
Funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Subproject Optical 3D Measurement Technology:
For making of reliable wind turbine runtime extension assessments, a new method is being developed that takes into account the geometry and modal properties of the respective rotor blade. These are determined using optical 3D measure... more
Funded by State of Lower Saxony and VolkswagenStiftung, zukunft.niedersachsen
The research network DiViAS brings together previously rarely interlinked methods and practices in the digitization, research and representation of collections from colonial contexts. The project will systematically combine expertise from museum studies, history and cultural stud... more
Funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Das Projekt ASKAR3D (Entwicklung eines assistiven Systems zur hochgenauen Knie-Endoprothetik auf Basis von Augmented Reality und optischer 3D-Messtechnik) hat als übergeordnetes Ziel, am Beispiel der Knie-Endoprothetik die chirurgische Präzision zu erhöhen, das Patient... more
Funded by Federal Acency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
This is a joint project with the Institute for Photogrammetry and GeoInformation (IPI) and the Institute for Cartography and Geoinformatics (ikg), both from Leibniz University Hannover. It is the first project of the "Gauß Center for Geodesy and Geoinformatio... more
Funded by Niedersächsisches Vorab
Transformation and structural change in rural areas mean changes in space and time. Such spatiotemporal data is to be managed and processed by our “Geo-Toolbox”. It uses digital technologies such as databases and geographic information systems (GIS) for tasks of the e... more
Funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
The project - "WärmewendeNordwest - Digitalization for the implementation of heat transition and value-added applications for buildings, campuses, neighborhoods and communities in the Northwest" (WWNW for short) - is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Educa... more
Funded by German Maritime Museum, Leibniz Institute for Maritime History
The project focusses on the conception and implementation of the geometric monitoring of the Bremen Cog (appr. 25m x 8m x 8m). The Bremen Cog is the best preserved medieval merchant ship in the world. A large-volume optical 3D-measurement concept is applied in order to al... more