{"id":116725,"date":"2025-09-19T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/?p=116725"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:30:51","slug":"innovation-energy-park-by-innova-gmbh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/news-2025-en\/innovation-energy-park-by-innova-gmbh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Congress at the EUREF Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”418410″][vc_single_image media=”116721″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”992073″][vc_single_image media=”116719″ media_width_percent=”100″ alignment=”right” uncode_shortcode_id=”655260″][vc_single_image media=”116717″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”773890″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=”211257″]Presentation of the 15th Innovation Award 2025[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”180798″]On 8 September 2025, the Innovation Congress took place at the EUREF Campus<\/strong>. The Green Economy Network.NRW (KNUW)<\/strong> was also represented with a stand on that day. Prof. Dr. Martin Faulstich, Dr. Ewa Harlacz, Dr. Ulrich Teich<\/strong> and our doctoral students Konstantin Saure, Carina Diemel and Klara Theoabld were in attendance<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The congress was opened with a speech by Minister President Hendrik W\u00fcst,<\/strong> who emphasised the importance of strengthening North Rhine-Westphalia as a location for innovation and start-ups through new ideas and innovations, thereby contributing to the state’s future viability. Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Neubauer<\/strong> and Minister for Science Brandes<\/strong> also addressed the audience. <\/p>\n

The NRW Innovation Award 2025<\/strong> was also presented in recognition of innovation in North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Holger Stark<\/strong> (university professor of pharmaceutical and medical chemistry and managing director of the scientific institution Pharmacy at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf) won the \u2018Innovation\u2019<\/strong> category, which comes with prize money of \u20ac75,000. Together with his team, he developed a new treatment method for glaucoma. <\/p>\n

The \u2018innovation2business\u2019 <\/strong>category, with prize money of \u20ac15,000 twice, was won by Dr. Christian Schwarz<\/strong> (co-founder and managing partner of Numaferm GmbH, D\u00fcsseldorf) and Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt<\/strong> (Chair of Biochemistry I at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf) for the development of a sustainable biological process for the synthesis of proteins and peptides.<\/p>\n

The prize for the \u2018innovation2market\u2019<\/strong> category, with prize money of \u20ac15,000, was awarded to Dr. Martin Schleef<\/strong> (founder, long-standing managing director and shareholder of PlasmidFactory GmbH, Bielefeld). He succeeded in reducing the size of plasmid DNA so that it can be used in cancer therapy. <\/p>\n

The audience award \u2018innovation4transformation\u2019<\/strong>, with prize money of \u20ac15,000, went to Dr.-Ing. Andreas Bremen<\/strong> (founder and managing director of Co-reactive GmbH, D\u00fcsseldorf) for the development of an innovative mineralisation process that converts CO2<\/sub> emissions into high-performance additives for cement.<\/p>\n

We congratulate all winners and are delighted with the success of the Innovation Congress.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8 September 2025, EUREF Campus D\u00fcsseldorf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":116722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2025-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116736,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116725\/revisions\/116736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inzin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}