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CIL Projects and CIL News

  • LuzVista: Illuminating the Path for Rural Electrification in Bolivia
    An interdisciplinary student team from the Munich University of Applied Sciences’ Co-Innovation Lab developed “LuzVista,” a data visualization platform, during the summer semester of 2025. In partnership with the NGO “Luces Nuevas Internacional”, the team created the solution to simplify solar energy data analysis to help authorities and decision-makers make smarter and faster decisions for sustainable energy projects in rural communities in Bolivia.
  • Turning Climate Goals into Local Action
    An international group of business and IT students partnered with LocalZero to create a platform that bridges the gap between local climate action and proven climate strategies.
  • HM Sense Collab: Empowering Research, Teaching and Collaboration Through Accessible Sensor Data
    Hochschule München (HM) is pushing the boundaries of digital transformation with HM Sense Collab, an innovative platform designed to simplify and enhance the use of sensor data collected and stored by the previously existing HM-Sense sensors across the University buildings and faculties for students, researchers and Facility Management
  • OBSTPLAN: Empowering Landowners to Create Orchard Meadows and Boost Biodiversity
    Meadow orchards, traditional ecosystems rich in biodiversity, are biodiverse landscapes, where widely spaced fruit trees are combined with natural grasses and wildflowers, creating a habitat that supports wildlife while producing food.
  • EnerWeave: Finding the perfect system for you to optimize energy consumption
    Students develop a new application to match a unique set of energy devices with the perfect system to combine them, centralizing energy management and optimizing consumption.
  • Intellegam EcoLLytics: Revolutionizing User and Sustainability Analytics for LLMs usage
    Modern businesses increasingly rely on LLMs for various applications, but the environmental impact and user engagement metrics often remain underexplored due to insufficient analytical tools. Co-Innovation Lab at Hochschule München, in collaboration with Intellegam GmbH, a Munich-based high-tech company, has developed EcoLLytics, a solution designed to merge environmental insights with user engagement analytics for using LLM technology.
  • Launching the intuitive “HM InsightHub” dashboard, enabling access to real-time sensor data at Hochschule München
    How can professors and lecturers at Hochschule München (HM) make their teaching more practical? As part of the Co-Innovation Lab (CIL), the project team has transformed the complexity of sensor data collected in the buildings of HM into an intuitive, user-friendly dashboard. By providing quick and effortless access, the team has changed the way lecturers and students interact with real-time data.
  • GreenTect: Securing sustainable construction for education buildings 
    In an era marked by environmental consciousness and the pressing need for sustainable solutions, educational institutions are grappling with the challenge of managing their ecological footprint with sustainable construction. Recognizing this imperative, students from Hochschule München and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) have collaboratively developed a web-based project management solution for sustainable buildings tailored for Solidar Planungswerkstatt to unveil GreenTect—an innovative solution poised to revolutionise how we monitor and enhance sustainability in educational classroom building.
  • Introducing “Ask Binny”: Improving student engagement to ensure waste separation on campus
    To ensure the fulfillment of sustainability goals, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) aims to improve the waste separation of students on campus. Within the context of a Co-Innovation Lab and DTLab project, students from TAMK collaborated with students from Hochschule München (HM) to launch a web application “Ask Binny” aiming to increase student engagement in waste separation. Get to know more about “Ask Binny” in the following video.
  • Facilitation of work through digitization at Willari
    Willari, a specialized sports equipment repair and rental business in Finland, aims to implement a digital solution to enhance customer satisfaction. The six-member team from Finland, led by directors Annika and Jonas, embarked on a collaborative journey with the Co-Innovation Lab’s consulting team, initiating an open-ended process that began with an intensive problem-finding phase involving all stakeholders.
  • Revolutionizing Solar Maintenance in rural areas with Solar InsightZ
    Zimpertec is a german company producing solar systems for people living in rural areas worldwide. The after-sales service and repairment process for solar technicians has been a complicated and time-consuming process until now. Technicians were not able to analyze the system data, repair the system immediately and always had to bring the system back to a central hub.
  • CoolVent: The Smart Way to Control Your Ventilation System
    ‘CoolVent’, a solution for efficient ventilation control across the university campus, is being developed by a team of experts from the Co-Innovation lab at University of Applied Sciences in Munich. The application contributes to the possibility of reducing energy consumption and therefore save costs and expenses.