KTUR enters its second round
13.12.2024
Emma Schmitt
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KTUR stands for Knowledge Transfer Upper Rhine and is a trinational collaboration between Germany, France and Switzerland in the field of knowledge and technology transfer. Over the next three years, the KIT will continue to support the transfer of innovation between universities, companies, start-ups and clusters in the Upper Rhine region.
The first project phase
In the first project phase, which ran until September 2022, a common identity for knowledge and technology transfer in the Upper Rhine region, known as KTUR, was created along with the first trinational offers. The follow-up project KTUR², in which the KIT is participating and which is coordinated by the KIT-Gründerschmiede, now aims to develop entrepreneurship in the network more strongly, among other things. The funding of cross-border start-ups and their access to innovation funding programmes and financing options in the Upper Rhine region is a priority of the programme and is supported by numerous offers.
This is how the kick-off in Strasbourg went
The project, funded by Interreg, brings together innovation stakeholders from business and science across the German-French-Swiss border. This time, the KTUR² coordinator with a total of 15 consortium partners is the University of Strasbourg. In addition to 12 universities, including the EUCOR universities, technology transfer stakeholders are also involved
In November, representatives of the partners met in Strasbourg for a joint kick-off: two days full of workshops and plenary sessions. The project continues to focus on support and funding opportunities for start-ups and improved access to technology solutions in the region, high-quality further education programmes and the practical experience of research and innovation.
Photos: KTUR
