The Project

Scientific Background

Efficient energy use along with private generation of renewable energy is becoming more and more important as we move towards a post fossil fuel era. IT4SE is based on the insight that technology-supported tools and services can significantly accelerate this process of change. However, research activities are still necessary to develop and evaluate such tools and services. For instance, machine learning techniques can be combined with interactive data visualization tools to make consumers aware of their daily energy consumption patterns, and web-based services can assist people with monitoring and sharing privately generated renewable energy with their neighbours

Objectives

The IT4SE project aims to lay the foundation for a scientific and technical exchange, as well as future cooperative projects, between Germany and New Zealand in the area of new information technologies that encourage the efficient generation and smart consumption of renewable energy by private users. To achieve this objective, the following activities will be carried out:

• Formulation of common research priorities for future cooperative projects, and exploration of funding opportunities at the national and international level.
• Establishment of a network of stakeholders from research, industry, and other associations and individual users interested in intelligent generation, monitoring, and use of renewable energy.
• Set-up of an IT4SE internet portal for the purpose of supporting the aforementioned network. The portal will serve as a point of contact and support the sharing of information. The portal will also gradually provide a framework for hosting services related to intelligent generation, monitoring, and use of renewable energy.
• Exchange of researchers between the partner institutions. Guest researchers will contribute towards the objectives of the related collaborative research projects, including the development of the first demonstrative service for the IT4SE internet portal.
• Set-up of a coordination bureau at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg for handling organisational and administrative tasks.

Posters and Flyers

The following general project information material is available online: IT4SE banner, IT4SE poster, IT4SE flyer

You can find additional flyer/poster material of our projects on the project information website.

Project Holder

IT4SE is part of the APRA initiative on the establishment of joint research structures between German universities and partners in the Asia Pacific Research Area. As all APRA projects IT4SE is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).