After almost three years, the BePerfekt 2021 project has been successfully completed. The overarching target of the project, which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), was to harness the innovation potential of the German science and research landscape in an even more targeted manner for stakeholders from society, culture, politics and business. To this end, a program was developed to support the training and continued education of effective transfer managers.

Within the framework of BePerfekt, a training tool for the skills development of peers and teams in transfer structures has been developed that is explicitly tailored to the specific needs of the German transfer landscape.

The project partners are based on a broad concept of transfer that understands transfer as a bilateral exchange between science on the one hand and society, politics and business on the other and includes both knowledge and technology transfer (KTT).

WTT managers facilitate access to the latest research findings for business and society through their work and bring these findings to their target group. They are therefore responsible for the transfer of knowledge and the technology required for this. To do this, they have to deal with issues such as infrastructure, communication, licensing of technologies, consulting and analysis. The BePerfekt project addressed various problems that arise in this process through a total of five training modules. The ZML was responsible for the didactic design of the measures and accompanied the entire implementation and validation of the learning offer.

After the end of the project, the German Association for Knowledge and Technology Transfer (TransferAllianz e.V.) took over the sponsorship and ensured that the modules and KTT training activities for KTT managers and teams in non-university research institutions, universities and research-related transfer companies can continue to be used. Since mid-February, the new KTT community portal "Fokus-Transfer" has bundled all further training modules and qualification opportunities from the BePerfekt project.

The online course "Knowledge and Technology Transfer COMPACT - An online course for more transfer in your institution" produced by the ZML can also be found on this portal. This extends over a total of four weeks. With the help of the educational video series, participants learn how they can promote knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) in their institution. They will also learn how they can make transfer visible at their institution, what steps are necessary to create and implement a transfer strategy and which trending topics are currently occupying the transfer community.