Projects

Fraunhofer FOKUS is an experienced and competent partner for the development and application of digitalization technologies and the networking of distributed infrastructures. Fraunhofer FOKUS develops practical solutions in many national and international funded projects as well as in contract research for SMEs, large-scale industry and public administration. 

We work on research and development projects of all sizes:

  • national
  • European-wide 
  • international

Cooperation with us takes place in individual projects or as part of long-term cooperation agreements. 

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  • Multi racial group of people working with Paperwork on a board room table at a business presentation or seminar. The documents have financial or marketing figures, graphs and charts on them. There is a laptop with graph and chart data
    © istock / courtneyk

    Quadriga is a joint project of leading scientific institutions in the Berlin/Brandenburg metropolitan region with the objective to develop a supra-regional data competence centre for digital humanities, administrative science, computer science and information science.

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  • ProEnv & ProMo

    Smart production and maintenance environments

    Collage Demonstrator im ProEnv Projekt
    © Leistungszentrum Digitale Vernetzung

    The ProEnv project is working on smart production and maintenance environments of the future.

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  • Visit the train station, enter the locomotive, shoot inside and look away from the locomotive
    © iStock / zhangxiaomin

    The project “Berliner Digitaler Bahnbetrieb” (BerDiBa) tests and develops technologies for automated driving on railroads. Fraunhofer FOKUS will use its expertise in environment perception for automated vehicles and adapt its artificial intelligence tools for traffic on rails.

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  • Moderne Laboreinrichtung. Neurologisches Forschungslabor
    © iStock / janiecbros

    The study “Automation Approaches for Digital Therapies - State of the Art” provides information on where automatisms support medical or therapeutic actions to improve the quality of medical treatment or to relieve medical staff.

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  • ALADIN

    Advanced Low Altitude Data Information System

    Man sieht ein Löschfahrzeug und die Nomadic Node Boxen.
    © Philipp Plum / Fraunhofer FOKUS

    The ALADIN project aims to ensure safer forest firefighting in the future employing demand-oriented 5G networking of emergency forces and response resources. As a first step, a nomadic, i.e. local and temporary, network is being set up at the Schönhagen airfield in Brandenburg. The network will then be used as a basis for controlling unmanned response equipment and monitoring and securing the site of operations.

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  • Data.Europa.EU

    The new central point of contact for high-quality European data

    Two young multi-ethnic women holding European Union flag on meadow.
    © istock / urbazon

    The European Union currently offers two Open Data portals: the EU Open Data Portal and the European Data Portal. In order to create a central contact point for high-quality data within Europe, both portals are now to be transferred into the joint portal Data.Europa.EU. Fraunhofer FOKUS is developing its technological “heart”.

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  • 5G Victori field trial: mmWave Node in front of an S-Bahn train in Berlin
    © Philipp Plum / Fraunhofer FOKUS

    5G-VICTORI is a large scale EU funded project that aims at validating 5G networks with vertical user cases. Large scale trials for Railway, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future are planned. The testbed infrastructure for the Berlin trials is provided by Fraunhofer FOKUS.

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  • Virtual LiVe

    Virtualization of Live Events via Audiovisual Immersion

    Kuppel eines Planetariums in die ein Livekonzert des Künstlers The Dark Tenor mit Publikum und Bühne in Echtzeit projiziert wird.
    © Philipp Plum / Fraunhofer FOKUS

    The aim of the project is to digitally complement or even replace classic event formats by using new immersive media formats when physical presence is not possible. The new media formats, include for example 3D audio, 360° videos, light fields and volumetric videos.

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  • Green Streaming

    Context-based video encoding for an energy-efficient and sustainable streaming supply chain

    AI generated image of a TV surrounded by a green glowing hologram of charts and statistics
    © Microsoft Copilot

    The goal of the project is to create innovations, concepts, and energy-efficient solutions addressing the entire video streaming value chain from video creation to processing, delivery, and their usage on consumer devices.

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  • EXPAND+ER WB3

    EXtension of a further education platform through attractive and user-oriented database design

    Woman working from home during COVID-19 pandemic
    © istock / damircudic

    In the EXPAND+ER WB³ project, the vision of educator Otto Herz is applied to the field of vocational education. The technology partners of the BMBF-funded EXPAND+ER WB³ project develop a scalable platform that protects privacy and enables users to search for and receive recommendations for further education courses.

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