The achievements of the PCCL in the current COMET-K1 funding period have been confirmed on the basis of a detailed interim evaluation by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
The applied upcoming four-year funding period (2021-2024) with a total volume of € 23 million was also approved without restriction.
Further Information: FFG
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Smart Innovation Steyr (SI.SR) invited to Stammtisch 4.0 on 7th October 2019 at 17:00 at Burg Design in the Stadtgut Steyr.
Under the title "Image recognition on the way to AI", experts and project partners from Burg Design gave an exciting insight into the company - from development and IT structure to process management and future vision.
Dieter Gruber was an expert guest and gave an exciting lecture on "Production of defect free, textured product surfaces using self-learning robot vision systems.
Further information at: https://tic-steyr.at/smartinnovation-steyr
He did it!
Wolfgang Kern was voted "Austrian of the Year" in the category "Research" by a jury of experts at the Austria'19 Gala in the Vienna Sofiensälen on 23rd October 2019.
He was honored for his outstanding achievements in the field of polymer sciences.
Highlights of the gala will be broadcast on ORF2 on 26th October 2019 at 23:25.
After the H.F. Mark Medal, this is already the second award this year for Wolfgang Kern.
Thanks to numerous online votes, Wolfgang Kern has made it into the final round of the "Austrian of the Year" competition in the field of research.
The ceremony will take place on 23rd October 2019 at the "Austria 19" Gala in Vienna.
Highlights of the gala will then be broadcast on ORF2 on 26th October 2019.
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On October 3rd 2019, Wolfgang Kern, CSO of PCCL and Head of Chair of Chemistry of Polymeric Materials, received the H.F. Mark Medal for his outstanding achievements in the field of polymer sciences.
The John Neal Insulation Award of the European Electrical Insulation Manufacturers (EEIM) honors students for outstanding research in the field of electrical insulation materials and systems.
In the INFINITY project, the influence of different climatic conditions on photovoltaic (PV) systems was investigated for the first time. 14 partners from science and industry achieved pioneering results for a new generation of photovoltaic systems. The Polymer Competence Center Leoben was one of the five scientific partners of this successful project.
Andreas Frank's (PCCL) team won a "Best Paper Award" at this year's ANTEC in Orlando (Florida) for the contribution "Fracture Mechanical Characterization of Non-Virgin Pipe Materials".
As part of the "second Polymer Night at the FTPO" (Fakulteta za tehnologijo polimerov/Slovenj Gradec) Dr. Andreas Hausberger (Teamleader "Polymertribologie") was invited to a lecture titled "Friction and wear of technical plastics - Opportunities and challenges".
At this event, the results of the project on "Integrated measuring system for the optical surface inspection of high-quality plastic parts" funded by the FTI initiative "Produktion der Zukunft" will be presented to a wide audience. As part of the stakeholder dialogue on production, the results of the projects funded through the FTI initiative "Produktion der Zukunft" will be presented to a wide audience, especially from the fields of "Efficient, resource-efficient and robust production processes or flexible, networked, automated and versatile production".
