Challenges

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Health and Care
Culture and Teaching
Environment and Sustainability
Democracy and Participation
       

DT.LAB Challenges are practical projects in which students work together with actors from the public sector on concrete problems in the field of digitalization. Challenges are integrated into courses at the university.

Since our launch in 2019, we have organised more than 70 challenges with over 600 students in 8 of HM's departments and published 28 prototypes.

Challenges summer term 2024

Visual Crowd Analysis / Fire Protection Directorate
User-centered design for quick help
App development with AI-based features

Challenges winter term 2023/24

Luftbild München
AI for aerial image analysis - it@M / LH Munich
SafeNow
Accurate geodata vs. data protection - SafeNow
Plan.Net
Language Model Integration - Plan.Net
Lern-Fair
UI/UX optimization for the learning platform Lern-Fair e.V.
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten
Requirements for digital geodata management - Rural Development Administration
Solar maintenance with Solar InsightZ app
Digitalization of bicycle repair processes
AskBinny: waste separation on campus
GreenTect: sustainable construction for education buildings
Intuitive “HM InsightHub” dashboard for real-time sensor data

Challenges summer term 2023

Apps for refugees integration - BRK
Performance art app - Residenztheater München
Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital
Digital help for social workers - Off Road Kids
Management of gas consumption - Umweltinstitut München
A multifunctional energy management system - LH München
Intelligent heating solution for HM
Reducing food waste in commercial kitchens - LH München
Data generated insights for ventilation systems

Challenges winter term 2022

AI-supported consulting for module selection

Challenges summer term 2022

SOS Kinderdorf e.V.
WeConnectAI
Deutsche Bahn – Bike Rental
Museum of London
Museum of London
Munich District Administration Office

Challenges winter term 2021/22

“MoLEnergy” improves management of energy consumption in the Museum of London
Cost-efficient ways to build energy-efficient with Ecobuilder
"RecycLearn" helps Munich residents to separate their waste correctly
A smart solution for an efficient refill management for farmers

Challenges summer term 2021

Innovation-Hub: Visualisation
Innovation-Hub: Implementation
InSite – App Solution for Efficient Building Management
Jimma Neo E-Learning Platform
MUCmoves – Data that Moves the City
BEMS – Records Emissions
Bots in Education: Ednic
Bots in Education: Cubie
Bots in Education: Litera
Bots in Education: Buddy
CoCo – Corona Contact Communication
SmartReport at the Museum of London
EatGreener
SurveySolver
GridX Sustainability Dashboard
Windcarers – Webapp for Windpower
Passwordless Authentication

Challenges winter term 2020/21

Classifying Bee Images
KonTEXT – Motivation App
Empowering Youngsters
Hackathon „Circular Cities“
PubliHM – A Research Information System
Detection of Foreign Substances in Biowaste
Tools to Support Dementia Sufferers
TheaGe Community Platform
TipTabToe – An App against Climate Change
Motivating Local Companies towards Climate Protection

Earlier Challenges

Motivations to Share Transportation Data
The picture shows two people shaking hands. The hands seem to belong to children. You can see the red sleeve of the person on the left.
Civil Participation through Social Information Systems
The cover picture shows a closed, red theatre curtain.
Digital Innovations for the Theatre Society Munich
A Digital Day with Pepper
The picture shows many bees flying to a hive and crawling into it. In the background you can see nature.
EnBeeMo – Environment and Bee Monitoring
The graphic shows a net connecting different people on the left and two hands holding a smartphone on the right.
A Capacity Finder for Munich
The picture shows a section of a forest from a human perspective. It is daytime and the sun is casting a pattern on the ground through the leaves of the treetops.
Classification of Trees Using Instance Segmentation
The picture shows two children, a blond boy and a brown-haired girl. The boy is wearing a red jumper with a bear on its right side. He is holding a dark red pen in his right hand. He seems to be writing or drawing something. The girl leans over to him and looks intently at what he is writing or drawing.
Measuring the Acquisition of Competences
The photo shows a pocket calendar with notes entered on some days and on others not.
The Motivator – Dayplanning Despite Demetia
Museum Villa Stuck
Munich's Culture Online for (New) Target Groups
The photo shows the interior of an old building with impressive architecture. The walls are made of stone and are bathed in golden light from lamps. In the middle is a wide staircase with a statue made of white stone. In front of it, two people stand on the stairs. The photo was taken from a bird's eye view.
Making Museums More Attractive
The picture shows a blue, a green, a yellow, a light blue, an orange, a red, a pink, a green and a purple hand reaching up.
M-Volunteer – Platform for Voluntary Work in Munich
There is a photo of six different coloured cards, like the ones you usually have in your wallet.
M-Wallet – Making Better Use of Munich's Offers
Sixteen different coloured glass bottles stand on a waste container in winter.
Smart Sensors for Glass Containers
There are many different symbols in the picture that we associate with the internet and social networks. For example, a mobile phone from which a person seems to jump out to talk to other people, heart symbols as used to give likes, an @-sign, a wi-fi symbol and much more.
A Social Network for Munich
The picture shows an Amazon Echo Dot with red illumination. It is a circular, flat speaker that responds to voice commands. The button that allows you to mute the microphone lights up red.
Voice Assistants as Memory Trainers
The picture shows the hands of an old lady sitting on a chair. She is wearing a diamond ring on her middle finger on her right hand and a gold ring on her ring finder on her left hand. She wears a grey top and puts several keys on a key ring in a grey handbag on her lap.
Voice Assistants for Orientation
The picture shows a calendar page of the month of April.
Voice Assistants as Diary and Phone Book
The picture shows the hands of a woman. She is wearing red nail polish and a wide ring on her right ring finger. She is holding a white tablet in her hands on which a sketch of a house can be seen. The screen background is blue and shows the ground plan of a building. The ground plan is also on paper on a table under the tablet. The sketch of the house looks like a projection of the finished building over of the building's ground plan.
Virtual Reality for Munich's Buildings
The picture shows the hands of an old man. He is wearing a grey jumper with two black stripes across his chest and is holding a mobile phone in his hands. He seems to be looking at it. Old-fashioned furniture can be seen in the background.
(Web) Apps for People with Dementia