M-Lab App presented at the Press Conference of State

14 August 2017, by David Mosteller

Photo: MAST @ UHH, CC BY-SA 3.0

Hamburg's State Minister of Science, Research and Equality Katharina Fegebank presented together with Prof. Maalej and Daniel Martens from our research department the new science app “Metropole des Wissens” at the State Press conference. The app is dedicated to all citizens interested in science. The aim of the app is to stronger connect science within the city state of Hamburg and the interested public.

The app is a success story for knowledge and technology transfer at the University of Hamburg. The initial version of the app was developed with the lighthouse-teaching project M-Lab. Within this course students develop innovative mobile apps by using the latest technology. At the beginning of the three-month course practice partners from industry, public sector, and civil institutions present the students their problem statements. The ministry for science, research and equality took part in the M-Lab course in 2015. A team of four students (Minka Halilovic, Javad Malaquti, Paul Mazgajski, and Daniel Martens) developed the initial version of the app, which aggregates content, such as news and events, of the scientific institutions within Hamburg. At the end of the project the students presented the app to the first and second major of the city of Hamburg within the town hall.

The app and its concept received great enthusiasm. It was further developed and tested, and is from now on available for free within the Apple AppStore. Katharina Fegebank, Hamburg's State Minister of Science, Research and Equality: „With this app... citizen can dive in digitally with one click from anywhere in the Hamburg's science“

Prof. Maalej concludes: "the students designed the app for the future and other institutions can easily integrate their content into the app -- even Germany- wide" .

Follow the link to download the app within the Apple AppStore.

Press coverage:

• Hamburg1: "Neue App für Hamburger Wissenschaft"
• Abendblatt: "Kostenlose App zu Themen aus der Wissenschaft"
• Welt.de: "Wissenschaft per App erleben"
• Hamburg.de: "Neue App für aktuelle Infos aus der Hamburger Wissenschaft"