Transfer_Hub

Understanding Transfer from the Standpoint of an Emerging Future

Project Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2027

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Olaf Neumann (Transfer_Hub); Prof. Dr. Andrea Plöger (Pilot project "Zwischenräume"; Prof. Dr. Oliver Fehren (Pilot project "Community Spaces")

Project Staff: Transfer_Hub : Dr. Anja Hermann, Dr. Bianca Dreyer, Susanna Eder; Transfer_Hub Pilot project: Adam Page (Zwischenräume), Eva Hertzsch (Zwischenräume), Miriam Pieschke (Community Spaces); Transferale: Elène Misbach

Partners Tansfer_Hub:

• Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband - Landesverband Berlin-Brandenburg
• Gesundheit Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
• Migrationsrat Berlin e.V.
• Bezirksamt Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf: Wirtschaftsförderung
• Bezirksamt Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf - Stadtentwicklungsamt, Fachbereich Städtebauförderung und Quartiersentwicklung
• Bezirksamt Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf - Jugendamt: Förderung und Gestaltung Hellersdorf-Nord
• Steinbeis Center for Innovation and Sustainable Leadership

Abstract:
The Transfer_Hub serves as a temporary network coordination office, facilitating the future-oriented and community-centered development of the university. The Transfer_Hub research team accompanies ASH Berlin's transformation process toward becoming a knowledge-transfer-oriented educational campus in the district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf. As one of the two projects within Campus Transferale, the Transfer_Hub team works closely with its aligned pilot projects, Zwischenräume (Interspaces/Spaces In-Between) and Community Spaces, as well as the Service Point for Participatory Research. This ensures that outcomes from the Transfer_Hub are always co-created with society, local stakeholders, and residents of Hellersdorf, while also enabling impulses from the social environment to flow back into the university. The pilot projects, which may grow in number by 2027, serve as direct links to the district and are studied by the Transfer_Hub research team.

The university's strategic transfer goals form the foundation of the Transfer_Hub activities. Experiments explore how ASH Berlin could evolve into a "university of the future," both in spatial and conceptual terms: a university where local residents, lecturers, students, and staff collaborate on solutions. These efforts aim to generate ideas that emerge from and enrich the district while fostering discourses with national and international relevance, extending beyond the confines of ASH Berlin.

Through this process, Marzahn-Hellersdorf is strengthened as a knowledge hub, with the university undergoing a transformation characterized by continuous learning and development. Becoming a "university of the future" also involves broadening perspectives to envision opportunities beyond the immediate local district of Hellersdorf. The project enhances the value, visibility, and accessibility of knowledge-transfer experiences, unlocking and utilizing future potential for co-creation.

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Keywords: Transfer Research, Ecosystem Network, Community, Co-Creation, Innovation

Contact: 
Team Transfer_Hub
Café Interfix
Stollberger Straße 63 (Boulevard Kastanienallee)
transfer_hub@ ash-berlin.eu
+49 30 992 845 18