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Project ReCAIcle
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Project Start 01.10.2024

The InnoTeam “ReCAIcle” researches an AI-supported conversational agent from 01.10.2024 that aims to motivate users toward sustainable behaviour.

Project ReCAIcle

Project partners seventhings and TU Dresden

InnoTeam “ReCAIcle” – Towards Circular Economy: AI-based Conversational Agent for Sustainable Behavior Change

In cooperation between seventhings GmbH, the Chair of Business Administration (in particular Marketing) and the Chair of Industrial Design Engineering, an AI-supported conversational agent is to be researched from 01.10.2024, which is intended to convince users to adopt sustainable behaviour. With the help of an AI-supported conversational agent, users of seventhings GmbH’s asset management software are to be motivated to use resources in the sense of a circular economy. If the scientific proof of concept is successful, such a system can be adapted in various sectors (e.g. food industry, construction industry and mobility).

The planned project in the field of industrial research can generate AI-supported solutions for behavioural changes in the sustainable use of resources. In the future, the results of the work can be transferred into an independent software solution. Development at the Dresden site will enable AI research “made in Germany” that complies with regulations and places particular emphasis on data security and data protection. This solution can be made available to local SMEs. The potential development as a SaaS solution can achieve maximum penetration in the Free State of Saxony.

The “InnoTeam” programme is part of Saxony’s technology funding and is supported by Sächsische Aufbaubank GmbH with regard to establishing cooperation between companies and universities in the formation of competence teams.

Project partners: seventhings GmbH, Chair of Industrial Design Engineering (TU Dresden), Chair of Business Administration, in particular Marketing (TU Dresden)