Bosch awards innovation prize

Bosch awards innovation prize

This year, 147 students from 21 technical colleges (HTL) throughout Austria competed for the coveted Bosch Innovation Prize with their 55 theses. The award ceremony took place in Vienna on June 12, 2025 with numerous guests from science and business. And these are the winners of the 18th edition of the largest company-initiated HTL competition in Austria: HTL Klagenfurt Mössingerstraße received the Bosch Innovation Prize for the diploma thesis “LiveSaferOverview” in the “Mobility” category, the TGM Vienna was awarded for the diploma project “Liquid Layer X – 3D printing via syringe extruder” in the “Industrial Technology” category, and the HTL Hollabrunn was convincing the prominent expert jury with “Arc detection using AI” in the “Connected Living” category. In addition to the coveted trophy and the Ixo cordless screwdriver from Bosch, the three winning teams were delighted to receive a 1,500 euro winner's bonus.

Winning project “Mobility”

Alina Nessel, Marie-Luise Kummer and Johanna Maier from the HTL Klagenfurt Mössingerstraße form the winning team in the “Mobility” category. With the “LiveSaferOverview” they developed an innovative solution for monitoring in tunnels in cooperation with Asfinag. Using AI-based technology, emergency vehicles are automatically recognized on live video images and their positions are displayed in real time on a clear visualization interface. Emergency services and tunnel attendants can keep track of things via a user-friendly website and can react more quickly and precisely in an emergency. "Since GPS does not work in the tunnel, optical detection using existing camera systems was used. This means that no additional hardware is necessary, just a software adjustment in the background. It is impressive to see how close this idea is to implementation and what great potential it has for many other areas of application," explained juror Martin Riester, center manager at Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Vienna.

HTL location advantage

Helmut Weinwurm, chairman of the board of Robert Bosch AG and representative of the Bosch Group in Austria, was also a member of the jury, was impressed by the theses presented: “What is striking is the many creative ideas and the astonishing professionalism with which the projects were implemented.” As an HTL graduate himself, he appreciates the importance of this type of school. "The Austrian HTL landscape is a real location advantage and a talent factory with international appeal. We rely on highly qualified specialists for our competence centers in the areas of mobility and hydrogen - and see the graduates of the technical colleges as having enormous potential for tomorrow's innovative strength."