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Fraunhofer Technology Experience

What is the Fraunhofer Technology Experience about?

This series of interactive events in our Fraunhofer EU Office in Brussels not only showcases cutting-edge technology for the benefit of European citizens but also gives you the opportunity to test it yourself. Experience today the solutions of tomorrow!

Since September 2015, the Fraunhofer EU Office has organized these events together with Fraunhofer Institutes to present Fraunhofer’s wide variety of skills, technologies and solutions. First under the name Innovation Experience and then as Technology Experience. 

After a two year break due to COVID-19, the in person event series is back on. Take a look at our upcoming and past events and stay tuned for what's to come.

Upcoming Events

Update coming soon.

Past Events

From Belgian fries to your personal cutlery - Biological Transformation in practice

December 1, 2022

The researchers of Fraunhofer IPK demonstrated an example of how to implement biological principles in Industry 4.0: turning food waste into biodegradable synthetic material. Through 3D printing technologies, the resulting material can be used for almost any product shape and simply composted after usage.

How does it work?

Find out more!

Robotics – Changing the Future of Healthcare

April 3, 2019

This edition of the Fraunhofer Technology Experience gave insights on how Fraunhofer IPA puts its comprehensive health care robotics know-how into practice. Together with our industrial partners, we create highly functional, market-ready robotic solutions for the healthcare sector, which we invite you to discover yourself.

New sources for transplantable organs – How Xenotransplantation helps overcoming the shortage

December 11, 2018

Can a pig be a new source for transplantable organs?
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Can a pig be a new source for transplantable organs?

In this edition of the »Technology Experience« series of events, Fraunhofer gave you the opportunity to get to know more about how Xenotransplantation helps overcoming the shortage of transplantable human organs.

CLEANTAN® – eco-friendly, sustainable, and cost-efficient leather tanning

September 26, 2018

CLEANTAN® leather tanning technology without waste water
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CLEANTAN® leather tanning technology without waste water

Leather is a high performance, high quality and natural material. It has unique properties, from high resilience, protection against water, the capacity to hold liquid from the inside and a high customer acceptance. However, its production is anything but efficient in terms of chemical usage. Up to 40 percent of the chrome salts used for leather tanning worldwide find their way into the wastewater, and recycling is technically complex and cost-intensive. With its CLEANTAN® process, Fraunhofer UMSICHT almost completely reduces chromium-polluted wastewater.

Working as a team: man-machine interaction in a social networked industry

June 14, 2018

Virtual training helps qualifying workers for new processes.
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Virtual training helps qualifying workers for new processes.

There is a lot of buzz about disruptive aspects of automation and robotics in labor, especially industrial work. However, there are still a lot of questions concerning the interaction between man and machine in this context. The first edition of the Fraunhofer Technology Experience will provide you the opportunity to test developments on Virtual and Augmented Reality from our research project »Innovationlab Hybrid Services in Logistics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML« and learn more on the new concept of social networked industry.

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