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The FH Vorarlberg FHV is planning to set up a participatory innovation laboratory. The state of Vorarlberg supports this with a subsidy amounting to 50 percent of the total costs informs Economic Councilor Marco Tittler Especially in economically challenging times research and development is a key to future corporate success and ultimately to securing the economic strength of the state. This positioning needs to be strengthened and expanded said Tittler We want to keep our finger on the pulse. The investment package amounts to around 433000 euros.UCT Research the interdisciplinary research center for user-centered technology at the FHV has been operating a regionally unique infrastructure for research technology and innovation with the laboratories Usability and Virtual Reality. So far a number of projects in the area of User Experience Research have already been carried out successfully. User-centered FTI processes are increasingly being carried out using so-called eXtended Reality XR technologies. These are interactive technologies that merge virtual reality and physical reality. In order to be able to use the current state of the art in the field of User Experience Research in the future and also to give business access to advanced RTI infrastructure the establishment of a participatory innovation laboratory at the FHV is planned. This is linked to the following specific goals Establishment of a new participatory innovation laboratory Investments in eXtended Reality XR technologies Integration of the existing technology into the new acquisitionIn the new participatory innovation laboratory to be built which will consist of an examination control and technical room it is planned to bring together new XR technologies and supplement them with existing technologies to record the experience and behavior of their users. This means both an expansion and a new use of existing solutions.With this investment package the FH Vorarlberg is building an FTI infrastructure for XR technologies says FH managing director Stefan Fitz-Rankl The companies are involved in research and development tasks in the XR area and supported accordingly.For this ERDF project RD infrastructure for a participatory innovation laboratory submitted by the FH Vorarlberg the state has approved funding amounting to 50 percent of the total costs which is a good 210000 euros. This funding comes entirely from the ERDF program Investments in Growth and Employment Austria 2014-2020 Priority 7 REACT-EU.