#Update Hamburg funding innovations for more liveable city

"#Update Hamburg boosts innovativions for a more liveable Hamburg. These strong projects will improve the city as a whole," said Melanie Leonhard, Minister of Economics. The selected projects include the "Community Health Laboratory Veddel", a joint project by HAW Hamburg and the Poliklinik Group to improve healthcare. Other approaches promote digitalisation and integration. The Hacker School and the Re DI School, for instance, trains migrants to become innovators and improves their digital skills. Another project called "Nachbarschaftskiosk" will focus on professional inclusion and local services. Opti Medis AG's "MOIN" project focuses on algorithms to optimise medicines specifically designed to meet the needs of older people.

A new collaborative directive increases the maximum amount of funding to EUR 200,000 per project. This regulation should incentivise collaboration and make the initiatives more effective. Funded collaborations such as the "Growing the Future" project by Zinnwerke e. V. and Hafen City University use this model to research sustainable materials and construction methods using fungi-based substances. The "Mit (Spür-)Sinn gegen den Brustkrebs" project by Discovering Hands gUG and Haus 5 gGmbH takes a collaborative approach to detecting breast cancer early.
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