Making Industries Pro²Future

Empowering Humans with Cognified and Sustainable Products and Production Systems

As a COMET competence centre, we conduct research into resilient, energy-efficient and human-centered solutions that make everyday industrial life smarter, safer and more sustainable. Through strong partnerships with industry and science and a clear focus on knowledge and technology transfer, we are paving the way for a cognified and sustainable future of production.

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How to partner with us

We provide an ecosystem for applied research and innovation.

From joint research projects and scientific exchange to research stays and supervision of academic work with international universities.

Applied research on industrial topics; collaborative work from idea to practical implementation throughout the entire product life cycle.

We build long-term partnerships that strengthen regional innovation, support international success and help educate and develop future talents.

We offer an ultimate environment for collaborative projects (industry, SMEs, startups, universities, research institutions) and provide application-driven results for mission-oriented initiatives and innovation programs.

Research with Impact - Your Career at Pro²Future

You want your work to make a real impact and not just stay within the lab? At the intersection of science and industry, you’ll work at Pro²Future on forward-looking topics such as Artificial Intelligence, digitalization and sustainable production. Together with leading industrial partners, you’ll develop data-driven solutions, test innovative algorithms and receive direct feedback from real-world applications. Whether it’s human-machine interaction, smart products or process optimization – with us, you drive genuine innovation.
Whether you’re pursuing a PhD, internship or research position – we offer challenging projects, flexible structures and an inspiring research environment where your ideas truly matter.

About Pro2Future GmbH

Pro²Future is working on the goals and results of the digital transformation and conducting research for industrial implementation in the period thereafter. As a non-university COMET research centre with locations in Linz and Graz, we are working on the next generation of cognitive products and production systems.

Our mission is to cognify industries
by developing resilient, energy-efficient and human-centered solutions that directly address everyday challenges.

Further information can be found here:

Projects

QA_HEdge-2

QA_HEdge-2

Quality Assurance using High-Frequent Edge Technology

The adoption of automation, connectivity, and data analysis in data-driven industries and shop floors has resulted in improved efficiency, productivity,…

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SERAM

SERAM

Supporting users in exploring and reasoning anomalies in multivariate timeseries

The increase in large and complicated data sets across various industries has led to a growing need for data analytics…

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AI2Human

AI2Human

Using AI for occupational safety and accident prevention

The technological revolution is rapidly transforming the work environment, subjecting workers to new challenges, such as collaborating with highly efficient…

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TWIN

TWIN

Digitale Zwillinge für zukunftsfähige Gebäude

Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical objects or processes that are synchronized with the real thing and kept up-to-date…

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CoExCo

CoExCo

Cognitive Polymer Extrusion and Compounding

Polymer processing plants show a nonlinear relation between extruders and downstream equipment, so this MFP will investigate and develop novel…

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recAIcle

recAIcle

recAIcle: Recycling-oriented collaborative waste sorting by continual learning

Waste contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. As economic growth is the main driver for increased waste generation, a decrease…

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SmartCoEx

SmartCoEx

Smart extrusion blow molding

An important process for the production of plastic products such as packaging, pipes, etc. is the extrusion process. In this…

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WorkIT

WorkIT

Workflow and Tool Process Modelling

The vision of WorkIT is to establish cognitive capabilities in today’s conventional products (e.g. power tools or machines). To achieve…

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Key Facts*

360+

Publications

45+

Finished & running PhD Theses

167+

Nominations in international Boards

49+ M€

Cumulated project volume

25+

Patents & Patent filings

95+

Scientific & Industry Partners

*as of March 31, 2026

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