Current research projects

NGO campaigns as risks for multinational enterprises

When cheap production leads to expensive image loss – in a DFG project, economists at the University of Passau are designing theoretical models that factor in the risk of international NGO campaigns and testing them with the aid of the latest data.

Strengthening Tourism in Eastern Bavaria Through Digitalisation

The DIGITOUR project of the University of Passau shows small and medium-sized tourism enterprises in Eastern Bavaria how they can meet the challenges of digitalisation by using new technologies, concepts and strategies to their advantage.

Making Electromobility User-Friendly: The University of Passau Participates in "BDL" Innovation Project

The Chair of Marketing and Innovation and the Centre for Market Research at the University of Passau are working together with partners from practice and science on the "Bidirectional Charge Management – BDL" innovation project on a currently unique project: the holistic integration of electric vehicles into the energy network in Germany.

Passau researchers investigate the secret of long-term successful founders

How do founder-inventors manage to keep their companies on a growth trajectory? A research team led by Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler, Chair of Business Administration with a focus on Organization, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Passau, searches for answers to this question in a project funded by the German Research Association (DFG).

Services versus data: DFG project investigates market mechanisms and their regulation in the digital platform economy

Major online platforms such as Amazon, Facebook or Google offer companies improved placement in exchange for data. As part of a DFG project, a team from the University of Passau is researching the consequences for competition and how this can be intelligently regulated.

EU-project SUNI-SEA: Fight against 'silent killers' in Southeast Asia

High blood pressure and diabetes have also developed into widespread diseases in Southeast Asia. A team from the University of Passau is participating in the EU project SUNI-SEA, which aims to massively increase effective prevention.

European network "WEGO: Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity"

Masculinised mining industry meets equal indigenous society: How does this affect gender and the power relations within the local community? The sociologist Professor Martina Padmanabhan and the Development Economist Professor Michael Grimm found a European network of excellence on Feminist Political Ecology that carefully examines gender relations in the responses to environmental challenges.

"Center for Digital Business Transformation" erforscht Zusammenhänge der Industrie 4.0

Die digitale Transformation traditioneller Industrien gilt als zentrale Herausforderung der Gegenwart. Allerdings sind für Unternehmen, Kunden und Zulieferer damit erhebliche Veränderungen verbunden.

Spoferan – web app keeps athletes in the loop

Passau graduates Christian Teringl and Ferdinand Frank came up with an idea to make many things easier for athletes, associations and companies: they wanted to pool sport events on a single online platform – including registrations and training plans.