Annual Report 2022

There were many reasons to celebrate at the Wachtberg Forum 2022: the first event after a two-year break from Corona, the 10th since its founding in 2009, the first time at the Villip site, and the premiere as a hybrid event with on-site and virtual participants.

Under the motto »With radar into the future«, the exhibition with many exhibits and live demonstrations showed current projects in a practical way, complemented by 11 lectures on stage. The topics impressively illustrated the wide range of possible applications for radar: from space situational awareness to AI-supported radar systems and additive processes in the development of high-frequency components to material analysis for quality control and much more.

Whether customers, partners or clients: guests from industry, defense, science and politics took the opportunity in bright summer weather to get an up-to-date overview of the work of Fraunhofer FHR and to meet project contact persons. The new office and laboratory building Villip II could also be visited. In addition to a visit of the Wachtberg Forum on site, there was for the first time the possibility to participate online.

More than 50 participants joined digitally.

The weather gods were kind to the Wachtberg Forum again this year and almost meant it too well: With sunshades, cold drinks and last but not least an ice cream van, the guests and employees braved the summer heat. The location in Villip II also passed the premiere successfully. »We are delighted with an all-round successful anniversary event. The great response from visitors shows us that the Wachtberg Forum is a fixed point in the annual calendar of our customers and partners,« concludes Prof. Peter Knott.

The 11th Wachtberg Forum will take place from June 21 to 22, 2023. Then again at the Werthhoven site around the TIRA space observation radar.