How do we want to live in the future? This is what is being worked on in the LebensPhasenHaus. Together with you. Touch it and try things out. Discover, discuss and help design the future. Join us – we look forward to meeting you.
How do we want to live in the future? This is what is being worked on in the LebensPhasenHaus. Together with you.
Touch it and try things out. Discover, discuss and help design the future. Join us – we look forward meeting you.
Intensive research is carried out in and around the LebensPhasenHaus – qualitative and quantitative, interdisciplinary and translateral. This includes everything from basic research through testing and application to extensive evaluation studies. This is what one particular group of scientists stands for – the same scientists who gave the impetus to the LPH and who have ever since been coordinating and ensuring the construction and running of the house. Whether geriatric medicine and nursing sciences, natural sciences, ethics and cultural sciences or computer science, economics and social sciences – the University of Tübingen has approximately 28,000 students, and more than 500 professorships and 4,500 scientists, who unite a multitude of scientific disciplines. These experts also participate in numerous research projects in the LebensPhasenHaus.
The University of Tübingen has been a centre of top research and excellent teaching for more than 500 years. To this end, the University maintains an exchange with partners all over the world – with other universities as well as with non-university research institutions, business, politics and society. Networking and cross-border cooperation between faculties and subjects are the corner stones of University Tübingen's successful strategy. The success of this strategy is reflected in its excellent positioning in international rankings. Furthermore, the University of Tübingen is one of eleven German universities that have been granted the status of excellency.
Our motto: Research, Relevance, Responsibility. The LebensPhasenHaus is living proof of this.
Demographic change, climate change, digitalisation– these are just a few of the megatrends that will accompany large and small companies over the next few years. Markets are changing creating new forms of employment and new business models, new challenges and new opportunities. In the LPH companies can gather information, but also contribute with their products and services for e.g., marketing and sales purposes, training courses and company events or as development partners in larger (international) research projects.
In the LPH, manufacturers receive feedback directly from their potential target group. With the help of focus groups and design-thinking workshops, they can develop suitable feature catalogues or intuitive operating concepts, thereby accelerating their innovation processes. In acceptance studies or market analyses, they can learn more about the markets of the future. Moreover, they become part of an active ecosystem of manufacturers and service providers, trades and consultants, potential partners, critical users and future users of their solutions. This results in the LPH becoming an incubator for the social, housing and private sectors– from brainstorming to opening up new markets.
In the LebensPhasenHaus, political players from the federal, state and regional levels, as well as employees from local and county administrations, gather information on the latest state of research and on concrete solutions for acute challenges in the areas of social, care and health policy as well as economic, research and innovation policy. Questions of municipal policy and regional development can be discussed and (further) developed in community workshops and at round-tables with the stakeholders of political programmes. In addition, the LebensPhasenHaus is used to inform the general public about existing assistance and counselling services or to explain changes in legislation. At international symposia, European research co-operations or through visits by foreign delegations, state, district and local administrations can learn not only about good practice, but also about errors in implementation processes in other countries and develop sustainable partnerships with administrations abroad that are confronted with similar challenges.
Our society is not only becoming older, more colourful and more diverse, but also more mobile and more digital. This brings with it new challenges, but also opens up many opportunities: new services and business models, new forms of organisation and employment opportunities. The aim: to live a life as long and active, healthy and self-determined as possible.
In the LPH we work on solutions so that as many of us as possible can actually achieve this ideal. We inform and have discussions: about barrier-free living and intelligent home control, about preventative lighting systems, about accessible kitchens with automatic stove shut-off or other technical assistance systems, from stair lifts to assistive care beds to complete, pre-installed prefabricated housing modules (FlyingSpace). We also collect: feedback, criticism and many suggestions, which we anonymise, analyse scientifically and pass on as valuable information for research and society, politics and business.
Are you interested in participating? We are constantly looking for volunteers and test persons who would like to take part in surveys and studies. Bring yourself and your ideas and wishes, your experiences and thoughts directly into the innovation process. Help design the process in order to avoid producing products and services that do not find their way onto the market. In this way good solutions can go where they are needed: to the people.
We are also always on the lookout for Senior Technology Advisors; people who enjoy sensitising others to the topics of "Smart Home & Living" or "Living in place" and who, in guided tours through the LebensPhasenHaus, can present the concrete solutions to typical everyday challenges facing carers and their charges.
We are always looking for test persons and volunteers who would like to take part in surveys and studies. Bring yourself and your ideas and wishes, your experiences and ideas directly into the innovation process. Help shape it. So that products and services are not developed without the market in mind. And so that good solutions reach where they are needed: the people.
However, we are also always on the lookout for senior technology companions; people who enjoy sensitizing others to the topics of “Smart Home & Living” or “Living in old age” and presenting concrete solutions for typical everyday challenges faced by carers and those in need of care in guided tours of the LebensPhasenHaus.
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