For the 10th time this year, the Lower Saxony Innovation Award will be presented.

The Niedersachsen.next innovation network, together with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport and Construction and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, honors outstanding ideas, innovative developments, and special collaborations.

In the Key Technologies category, future-oriented innovations with high transformation potential will be awarded.

Nominated are:

• myotwin GmbH (Göttingen), with the project: “TrinityScreen – Measurement of myocardial stiffening without intervention in living tissue”

• rain2soil GmbH (Wiefelstede), with the project: “rainbutler – autonomous irrigation robot for water-efficient agriculture”

• voraus robotik GmbH (Hannover), with the project: “The Agentic Factory – AI agents for autonomous self-optimization in production”



The Knowledge and Technology Transfer category honors successful collaborations and strategic alliances between research and practice.

Nominated are:

• Fraunhofer IFAM (Stade), with the project: “Machine Tool Robot – Industrial robot for processing steel and large structures”

• Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) (Braunschweig), with the project: “New strategies against multidrug-resistant bacterial infections”

• NanoXion (University of Oldenburg), with the project: “3D-printed nano-metal connections for semiconductors, medicine, and quantum research”



Be there on November 3rd when this year's winners are announced and we celebrate Lower Saxony's innovative strength together.