Honored by Transfer Allianz for Dedication
Dr. Cornelia Blau, who heads the Transfer, Innovation, and Sustainability Division, has been honored with the Volunteer of the Year Award from Transfer Allianz e.V. With this award, the Alliance recognizes Blau’s dedication to the association. In addition to fulfilling her official duties, she has also worked tirelessly to further develop the association. The award was presented to her at the Transfer Allianz conference in Hamburg at the end of April.
Dr. Cornelia Blau served on the Transfer Allianz board for three years and was active in several working groups. At the same time, she served on the program committees for organizing the TA conference and contributed her expertise to various operational areas of the association. The citation continues: “Through constructive action, extensive association experience, and practical ideas, she supports steady growth based on solid organizational structures. She has contributed significantly to establishing a legally sound management structure. Her critical eye and her intuition for members’ concerns help in assessing and weighing the association’s actions.”
Blau has headed the Transfer, Innovation, and Sustainability Department since 1997. A biologist with a Ph.D., she also served as executive director of the Science and Innovation Alliance Kaiserslautern from 2014 to 2018. Together with Dr. Susanne Schohl from Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, she laid the foundation for the startup office in 2008 to foster a greater entrepreneurial spirit in the state. She and her team also successfully guided the “Open Digitalization Alliance Palatinate” Innovative University project through the first and second rounds of funding.
The Open Digitalization Alliance Palatinate is a collaborative project of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, and the direct partners Fraunhofer Institute for Technical and Economic Mathematics (ITWM) and the Leibniz Institute for Composite Materials in Kaiserslautern (IVW). The project strengthens the transfer of ideas, knowledge, and technology to industry and society and further develops the regional innovation system and specific aspects of Digitalization. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the federal-state initiative “Innovative University.”
Transfer Allianz e.V. is the German Association for Knowledge and Technology Transfer (WTT). It brings together colleges, universities, non-university research institutions, patent licensing agencies, and other technology transfer service providers into a nationwide network.