Research Priority Area 4: Social Innovations

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Research Priority Area spokespersons

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Petra Friedrich
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Tel. +49 (0)831-2523-9256
petra.friedrich(at)hs-kempten.de

Research Priority Area 4: Social Innovations

Rapid social shifts, such as demographic change or threats to social cohesion, coupled with a new degree of obscurity, calls for fundamental social innovations. New information and communication technologies (ICT) and types of artificial intelligence (AI) show what is possible but also reveal limitations. Our intention reflects the mission pursued by Kempten University of Applied Sciences as a whole – “to make a substantial and sustainable contribution towards solving contemporary and future challenges in our society”. The projects in this Research Priority Area investigate, develop and evaluate a broad range of social innovations in the following fields of research:

  • New teaching and learning formats
  • Health, rehabilitation, nursing and medical technology
  • Elderly care, ambient assisted living (AAL)
  • Care work
  • Social cohesion and demographic change
  • Empirical research into youth work and social sciences

                                          

Research projects
A list of the projects being conducted in this Research Priority Area can be found here.

Publications
You can browse our publications in this Research Priority Area here.