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20 Sep 2024 The success of Wood K plus as non-university R&D Center in Austria is based on a very dedicated, curious and diverse scientific team.
Thus, many innovations are being developed, in particular in the area of applied science together with our company partners. To present these highly valuable results both to public and the science community we regularly are participating at various award competitions.
In 2024 we had so far a very successful time in getting awarded which we want to present to our colleagues:
Living Standards Awards at 4GameChangers Festival, Category ‘Future Wood Industry’: 10 May 2024
Awarding of the Living Standards Award 2024 (left to right: Julia Ebermann (Puls 4), Erik van Herwijnen, Wilfried Sailer-Kronlachner (Wood K plus), Karin Tausz (FFG), (©Foto: APA Krisztian Juhasz)
The Living Standards Award was presented for the 10th time as part of the 4Gamechangers Festival on 14 May 2024. The prize is awarded for innovative solutions, exportable ideas and future technologies to whose success standards have contributed. Standards facilitate access to new international markets, drive innovation and can help to overcome current social and economic challenges.
Wood K plus convinced the jury in the ‘Future Wood Industry’ category this year with the SusBind project, which involved the development of new bio-based adhesives. The standards for the production of wood-based materials such as chipboard, for the evaluation and testing of adhesives were of decisive importance for this project.
(Link: Aktuelles (wood-kplus.at), Video: Living Standards Award-Preisträger 2024 Kompetenzzentrum Holz – Wood K plus – YouTube)
NOMINATION – Innovation and Research Prize of the Province of Carinthia 2024: 15 May 2024
Award Ceremony (left: © Reichmann, right: with certificate fort he nomination, awarded by KWF © Wood K plus)
The ‘Innovation and Research Prize’ is the highest honour awarded annually by the Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF) on behalf of the State of Carinthia in the field of innovation and research. The project ‘Green innovation: cellulose-based sensor technology for process monitoring and structural health monitoring’ from Wood K plus was nominated for the innovation prize.
We were successful with the COMET Module project ‘i3Sense’ and were able to score points with the innovation work, which is carried out in the project.
(Link: Wood K plus (wood-kplus.at), Link project: Wood K plus (i3Sense))
NOMINATION – Project “Hanfkistl” at the Innovation@school: 10 June 2024
The Economic Society of Carinthia and the Group of Engineering offices at the Chamber of Commerce in Carinthia, in cooperation with the Private foundation Kärntner Sparkasse and the Carinthian Directorate of Education, were once again looking for inspiring project ideas for the 2023/2024 school year! The innovation@school initiative aims to give today’s young generation the chance to fully utilise their creativity, activate their inventive spirit and strengthen their teamwork skills.
The 10 nominated projects were presented to a wide audience at the “innoGala” 2024 on June 10.
(Link: innovation@school Preisverleihung 2023/2024 – Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft Kärnten (vgk.at))
