Accelerating innovation together.

Our Services – Your Benefits

Hi-Acts brings together the expertise of five Helmholtz Centres with their unique research facilities. The platform provides advice on scientific-technological, analytical and radiopharmacological issues, discovers the causes of problems and comes up with solutions or ideas. If in a particular case we are unable to offer help ourselves, we can use our national and international networks and research associations to forward your enquiry to qualified persons.

 

Your benefits at a glance:

  • Access to the scientific expertise of five Helmholtz-Centres with regard to accelerator technologies and their potential R&D applications in industry and medicine
  • Access to an accelerator infrastructure whose scope is unparalleled via a single- entry point
  • Networking with members, partners and scientists as well as Hi-Acts experts
  • Participating in annual network meetings and exchange formats
  • We represent the joint interests of the partners in the network in developing new standards and norms
  • Incorporating your own needs into the development of new solutions from the very beginning
  • Participating in public-sector funding opportunities (e.g. Use Case Initiatives)
  • Accessing and exchanging know-how with talented researchers
  • Receiving advice and support with applications for third-party funding applications, e.g. public funding programmes by the BMBF or BMWK
  • Customised training and specialist seminars

Becoming part of a strong network - Hi-Acts Membership

Are you interested in benefiting from the unique opportunities offered by the network?

Arrange an appointment for an in-person meeting without any obligations, and become a member!

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      Your membership advantages at a glance

      Networking

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      Actively network with other members from different industries, including opinion leaders, industry experts, potential new business partners and customers.

      Hi-Acts Connect

      Do you already have a specific idea or technical question? Contact us here and quickly find the right expert.

      Hi-Acts Connect allows you to submit your technological challenge to us online with minimal effort. You will receive feedback from the Hi-Acts consortium as soon as possible, explaining which opportunities for collaboration and which services are available.

      A few steps towards your solution:

      • The online form allows you to submit your technical enquiry very easily. The four simple questions will help you describe the issue as fully as possible and facilitate finding a solution.
      • Please name a person we can contact if we have any questions. A suitable expert from our team will get in touch with them.
      • You will receive a suggestion on the best way to approach your issue and with which research group.

      Click this button in order to submit your technological question via the form.

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      Use Case Initiatives

      Attention to all Helmholtz Researchers and interested Industry!

      Promising ideas for applied research have the chance of receiving between 20,000 to approx. 50,000 euros in seed funding through Hi-Acts. Every year, the Hi-Acts platform makes half a million euros available for promoting Use Case Initiatives proposed by Helmholtz researchers. In particular, Hi-Acts promotes projects that are developed in collaboration with industry or start-ups and that advance specific applications. So companies are encouraged to put forward their own initiatives or ideas for such collaborative projects and to join us in creating innovations together!

      Apply now for the Use Case Initiatives 2025:

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      What are the Use Case Initiatives?

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      Helmholtz partners in Hi-Acts are working in different groups to develop technological and analytical solutions that make accelerators easier to exploit for industrial needs: "Easier to use, with results that are easier to understand, more reliable and less cost-intensive."

      One instrument for achieving these goals is the annual call for proposals for Hi-Acts Use Case Initiatives. This seed-funding measure aims to address current challenges facing industrial partners and seek short-term R&D or production solutions.

      Questions on the Use Case Initiatives?

      Dr. Martina Bauer

      Innovation Manager Technology Transfer

      If you have any detailed questions about the Use Case Initiatives, please contact us directly - we look forward to exchanging ideas with you!

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      Events

      Technology-Labs

      Our Technology Labs for your Innovations

      The Hi-Acts Technology Labs are teams of scientists working on a range of key topics that offer great potential for innovation. The aim is to build a direct bridge between science and industry and to reduce the “time-to-market”, i.e. to bring new developments to the market as quickly as possible. They do so not least by continuously driving forward the development of important core topics, thereby increasing the technology readiness level for various challenges. This means that Hi-Acts can implement the requirements and ideas of its network partners even more rapidly and precisely, at the highest scientific and technical level. Every project is actively supported by the transfer and innovation leaders of the Hi-Acts Team. They are responsible for connecting the various players, initiating joint activities and organising possible follow-up projects.

      Five labs are currently doing research in the following core areas:

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      Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Sources (CANS)

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      In addition to X-ray techniques, analytical methods based on neutron beams are becoming increasingly important in research and technology – in energy technology, for example, but also in medicine. The availability of such neutron radiation is limited, however, because it can only be produced at large-scale research facilities such as nuclear research reactors or accelerator-based spallation sources. A group of Helmholtz researchers is therefore working to develop compact accelerator-driven neutron sources (CANS) that are lighter and cheaper to operate and could therefore be used decentrally on company or hospital premises. The best way of achieving this is being studied primarily at one of the beamlines of the Ion Beam Centre (IBC) at the HZDR.

      Do you have any questions? Please contact us

      Would you like to find out more about Hi-Acts and our portfolio of services? Contact us - we look forward to exchanging ideas with you!

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      Save the date:

      Our second Hi-Acts network meeting will take place from 4-5 November 2024 in Berlin. Mark the date in your calendars now. All details will follow shortly.

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