Innova.QUEST is the card set for “Innovation in the Mud” in Lusatia. It is suitable for the curious and the skeptical, for pragmatists and visionaries, for industry gatherings, and for team-building. It emerged from research conducted as part of the interdisciplinary research project Innova.GEIST on the relationship between social and technological innovations in Lusatia. It aims to encourage and empower through open-ended and concrete questions covering all key innovation topics.

As a result of the transdisciplinary research project Innova.GEIST, funded by the BMFTR as part of the WIR Alliance Life and Technology, we are pleased to release the Science-Practice Podcast Innovation in the mud -. A production by Jan Schilling (Akustikwerk) and Anja Mutschler and Dr. JULIA GABLER from the TRAWOS Institute.

In nine episodes, we discuss research and development of technological and social innovations in the context of structural change in Lusatia.

The project was carried out by the TRAWOS Institute at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (HSZG) in cooperation with AQVA Synergy GmbH and ran from March 2024 to December 2025.