With more than 100 registered participants, the final meeting of the BMBF funding measure ‘Making repositories and AI systems usable in everyday care’ (KIP) met with great interest nationwide. Under the direction of Prof. Wolf-Ostermann, the public event for interested parties from nursing, politics, science and society took place on 12 February 2025 in Bremen in the Haus der Wissenschaft. Prof Wolf-Ostermann is head of the Department of Nursing Science Care Research at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research and one of the spokespersons for the University of Bremen's Health Sciences research focus.
The programme highlights of the conference in the morning were the presentation of the results of nine current research and development projects from Germany on AI in care - including the scientific support project ProKIP.
ProKIP is responsible for the interdisciplinary monitoring, consulting, networking and evaluation process of all funded joint projects and is being carried out under the leadership of the University of Bremen in collaboration with Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Berlin and the Association for Digitalisation in the Social Economy (vediso). The scientists involved in ProKIP are researching how AI solutions can be successfully integrated into care practice.
The afternoon event then focussed on open discussions on how the future of care should be further shaped based on the results presented. Important questions in this regard were
- what are promising future areas of application for AI in care?
- how can we create the necessary structural conditions?
- what ethical and social aspects should not be neglected?
- what is needed to drive forward participatory research with technology developers, care practice and science?
All participants made extensive use of the opportunity for mutual exchange and networking.
‘We are delighted that this event brought together representatives from science, technology development and care practice for such an intensive dialogue. This not only strengthens the transfer of knowledge, but also creates the basis for actively and innovatively shaping the future of care,’ says Professor Karin Wolf-Ostermann, drawing a positive conclusion from the event.
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