Current projects

2026-04-27T10:09:19+02:00

REAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE INDUSTRY 5.0 TRANSITION OF THE MEUSE-RHINE MANUFACTURING SME (REAL)

Manufacturing SMEs (mSMEs) are at a turning point. While many mSMEs are still struggling with Industry 4.0, focused on automation and datadriven technology, Industry 5.0 is already emerging. This new paradigm integrates Industry 4.0, human centricity, sustainability, and resilience. For SMEs, this transition is especially challenging: limited resources and expertise make it difficult to integrate advanced data solutions and sustainability. The human centered approach of Industry 5.0 does however bring opportunities for better adaptation by SMEs.

2026-02-13T12:17:38+01:00

Community of Practice AI (CoP-KI)

As part of the “CoP-KI” project, a cross-regional community of practice (called CoP-AI) is being established to promote the exchange and development of innovative learning formats in both urban and rural areas. The goal is to create a vibrant community dedicated to the professional application of artificial intelligence (AI). By bringing together people from different industries, experience levels, and regions of Austria and Germany, informal, participatory learning experiences are made possible and interdisciplinary and supraregional knowledge exchange is strengthened in the long term.

2026-01-30T11:17:12+01:00

IDIAL – Intelligent Services Innovative Agile Local

IDIAL aims to develop AI services for knowledge workers in the skilled trades that are specifically tailored to the needs of smaller companies. Together with partners DFKI and eBZ, economic and practical approaches are being researched and developed that optimise work processes in the field of knowledge work and take into account the specific requirements of SMEs. The IDIAL solution strategy focuses on the early integration of ergonomic and technological development based on the specific tasks of information and knowledge workers. On the one hand, the project delivers immediately usable results for companies in the state and is intended to contribute to technology-oriented competence building in Rhineland-Palatinate.

2026-01-20T09:37:54+01:00

Konversion von WfbM-Plätzen

Beim Konversionsvorhaben des KVJS werden Arbeitsplätze von Beschäftigten in Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen (WfbM) in sozialversicherungspflichtige Positionen in Inklusionsbetrieben umgewandelt, wobei erstmals auch WfbM-Träger selbst Träger solcher Inklusionsabteilungen werden können. Das ITA fungiert dabei als wissenschaftliche Begleitung für das Konversionsvorhaben und untersucht, wie sich die Umwandlung ausgelagerter Arbeitsplätze in Inklusionsbetriebe auf die Teilhabemöglichkeit von Menschen mit Behinderung auf dem allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt auswirkt.

2026-02-27T10:37:05+01:00

Digitales Handbuch für ganzheitliche Transformationsprozesse in beruflichen Rehabilitationseinrichtungen (TraBeR)

Das Projekt „TraBeR“ entwickelt und erprobt ein digitales Handbuch, das Einrichtungen der beruflichen Rehabilitation dabei unterstützt, nachhaltige Entwicklung strategisch zu planen und praxisorientiert umzusetzen. Im Projekt wird ein modular aufgebautes Online-Handbuch erarbeitet, das Einrichtungen der beruflichen Rehabilitation durch alle Phasen nachhaltiger Transformation führt – von der Bestandsaufnahme über die Leitbild- und Prozessentwicklung bis zur Umsetzung und Wirkungsmessung.

2026-01-09T14:12:53+01:00

Diversity Management in Nursing - DIM-Pflege

Care facilities in Germany are suffering from such a massive shortage of skilled workers that they are urgently dependent on international staff. While strategies and measures for recruiting international nursing professionals have since become professionalized, little importance has been attached to the successful integration of these employees into the work process until now. DIM Pflege therefore focuses on diversity management responsibility, strategy, and corresponding measures, so that a culture of diversity develops within the company as a result. High importance is atteched to the transfer of insights.

2025-11-19T10:58:29+01:00

Wissenschaftliche Evaluation des Modellprojekts „GPS – Gesundheit und Perspektiven im Sozialraum“

Das Modellprojekt GPS verfolgt die grundsätzliche Zielsetzung, vermeidbare Eintritte in die Unterstützungssysteme des SGB XII (Eingliederungshilfen) sowie SGB VI (volle oder teilweise Erwerbsminderung) zu verhindern, indem Menschen frühzeitig und teilweise auch präventiv unterstützt und begleitet werden. Das Modellprojekt ist ein Teil des Bundesprogramms "Innovative Wege zur Teilhabe am Arbeitsleben - rehapro" und wird vom Jobcenter Rhein-Berg getragen.

2025-07-03T08:05:08+02:00

Evalu­ati­on von Bera­tungs-, In­for­ma­tions- und Schu­lungs­an­ge­boten zu KI-ge­stütz­ten Assis­tenz­sys­temen für Men­schen mit (Schwer-)­Be­hin­de­run­gen

Im Rahmen des BMAS-ge­för­der­ten Pro­jekts »KI-Kom­pass In­klu­siv« eva­lu­iert das ITA das Ar­beits­pa­ket 2 „Be­ra­tung und Kom­pe­ten­zen“. Über spe­zifi­sche Er­he­bun­gen wer­den Men­schen mit Behin­derun­gen, Fach­kräfte für Reha­bili­tation und Unter­neh­men zur Bewer­tung von Bera­tungs-, Infor­ma­tions-, Quali­fizie­rungs- und Ver­net­zungs­an­ge­boten in Bezug auf die Erpro­bung und Einfüh­rung KI-ge­stütz­ter Assis­tenz­tech­no­lo­gien befragt.

2025-07-03T08:06:20+02:00

Evaluation von An­wen­dungs­sze­na­rien KI-gestütz­ter Assis­tenz­sys­teme für Men­schen mit (Schwer-)­Be­hin­de­run­gen

Das ITA evaluiert den Nutzen und die Nutzung KI-gestützter Assistenzsysteme in drei unterschiedlichen Anwendungsszenarien (Berufsbildungswerke, Berufsförderungswerke und Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen) und bewertet die partizipative und mensch-zentrierte Entwicklung und Anwendung KI-gestützter Assistenztechnologien für die Inklusion von Menschen mit Behinderungen auf dem allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt.

2025-07-07T15:20:54+02:00

Smart collaborative workflow development in the footwear industry - MELLOW

The project ‘Smart collaborative workflow development in the footwear industry - MELLOW’ was launched on 1 January 2025. It is funded as part of the ‘Future of Work’ programme by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the European Union via the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) and is managed by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA).

2025-07-03T08:10:52+02:00

BETA-MeH - participation in working life with focus on the needs of people with acquired brain damage

ITA scientifically accompanies the project BETA-MeH of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German Pension Insurance). The project is about the return to work of people with acquired brain damage. This is realized through accompanying case management and a consistent orientation on the individual concerns of the target group and the respective job requirements.

2025-07-01T16:28:00+02:00

V-I-T - Networking - Interaction - Participation

Das Projekt beschäftigt sich mit dem Aufbau einer innovativen Organisationsstruktur inkl. umfassender Vernetzung sowie der Erprobung innovativer Einzelleistungen. Das Vorhaben fokussiert sich darauf die Erwerbsfähigkeit gesundheitlich stark belasteter Leistungsberechtigter zu erhalten oder wiederherzustellen sowie deren gesellschaftliche und berufliche Teilhabe zu verbessern.

2023-08-30T16:35:22+02:00

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2025-07-01T16:15:48+02:00

Lectures and coachings for auditors and rehab consultants of the Federal Pension Insurance

Employees of the audit service and rehabilitation consultants of the German Pension Insurance Association (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund) are supported at nine locations in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Baden-Württemberg through lectures and coaching on workplace-related challenges.

2025-07-01T16:11:05+02:00

Organisational resilience

Organisational resilience enables companies not only to survive crises or times of high pressure to change, but also to use them for further development towards improved sustainability in the sense of growth/strengthening.

Finished projects

2026-04-01T12:19:08+02:00

Strengthened resilience in manufacturing SMEs through agile, human-centered digital systems and systems design (READI)

The READI research project pursues the goal of enabling companies to identify, establish, anchor and harmonize the structures, processes and technical prerequisites required for sustainable and continuous change capability within the framework of a multi-stage change model including a set of measures.

2025-07-02T14:03:35+02:00

in.arbeit – digital

The project takes advantage of digitalisation in such a way that a sheltered workshop for people with disabilities can achieve a higher degree of decentralisation while at the same time maintaining economic efficiency and thus create new / additional participation opportunities for employees with disabilities in the social context as well as higher-quality occupational participation.

2025-07-02T14:20:49+02:00

WORKFORCE

The WORKFORCE project is concerned with the development of a further education network in the sanitary, heating and air conditioning (SHAC) sector.

2023-12-05T13:47:40+01:00

Erasmus+ BELVEDERE

BELVEDERE provides a platform to identify, further develop and share good examples of support for people with disabilities in the transition from school education or vocational training to employment using information and communication technologies (ICT).

2023-12-05T13:48:49+01:00

Changing Role of Specialist Provision in Supporting Inclusive Education – Evaluation of Phase 2

The Changing Role of Specialist Provision in Supporting Inclusive Education (CROSP) project is focusing on the re-organisation of specialist, separate provision (schools, classes and units) and the perceived shift in the role of such provision to support the right to inclusive education for all learners.

2025-04-23T14:54:24+02:00

Education, counselling and coaching : redesigning organisations: Self-organized and motivated!

The Caritasverband für die Erzdiözese Freiburg e.V. supports the Rückenwind+ project "Redesigning Organisations: Selbstorganisiert + Motiviert!" (Self-organized + Motivated!), the Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Freiburg e.V. supports ten project locations (local Caritas associations, professional associations and sponsors of Caritas facilities) in implementing self-organized teams.

2025-07-03T11:12:41+02:00

Digital Teams

The overall objective of the project is to counteract the rural exodus in Germany by improving the employment opportunities for knowledge workers in rural areas.

2019-12-17T11:33:52+01:00

Virtual Cluster Academy

The aim of the project was to investigate to what extent the development of a systematic training and further education offer in the form of a Virtual Cluster Academy can close current gaps in offers for cluster managers.

2025-07-01T15:47:08+02:00

BigDataPot

The aim of the project was to develop a potential analysis for the use of Big Data technologies for the application areas "Strategic Government Foresight" and "Science Communication".

2020-10-29T16:31:49+01:00

KlimaFolgenDialog

The project dealt with the consequences of climate change on municipal business locations, municipal infrastructure and the companies located there, their value creation processes and employees.