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Students and teachers are the core audiences of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar’s (KSW) educational offerings.
Last year, we developed the UX concept for a new education portal — a platform designed to meet the specific needs of these target groups in a focused, practical way.

Now, we’ve been awarded the contract to design the new portal and, together with the foundation, create a contemporary, user-centered digital experience that makes access to Weimar’s cultural heritage intuitive and inspiring for young audiences.

Discover more about the UX process behind the education portal project

In collaboration with the agency Innohub, we were able to convince the Ulm University of Technology (THU) of our relaunch concept.
cosmoblonde is designing the user experience (UX) and layout of the new THU website in an agile process.
The goal is to create an engaging, fresh look that conveys the THU's innovative strength and practical relevance on its website. Barrier-free, clearly structured, and tailored to the target audience.

Innohub is leading the Scrum process and implementing the new website in TYPO3.

We are delighted to be able to support Ulm University of Technology on its journey towards a sustainable and bold digital presence!

With over 10,000 students, Ostfalia is one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Lower Saxony. As part of a comprehensive relaunch, the entire website was redesigned and aligned with the needs and usage habits of its key target audiences.

The result is a modern, accessible website for Ostfalia – visually appealing, user-friendly, and created through an intensive, highly participatory process.

You can find more information about the project here

The University of Regensburg presents its new website with a modern design and clear user guidance. The relaunch focused on an intuitive user experience and a visually contemporary appearance for the renowned comprehensive university.

The new accessible design impresses with its clarity, encompassing all parts of the university with its color spectrum and combining them into a visual whole.
The structure and design directly appeal to the university's diverse target groups and ensure quick orientation and barrier-free accessibility. UX and UI design as well as the comprehensive Solr search were created by cosmoblonde.

Take a look now – at the new website of the University of Regensburg

The Accessibility Strengthening Act (BFSG) will come into effect at the end of June- many websites are still not fully prepared for the requirements of accessibility.
cosmoblone has gained a lot of experience in creating accessible websites over the last few years. In order to support operators of existing websites in their further development towards accessibility, we offer you the Accessibility Quickcheck.

The Quickcheck gives you an initial concrete overview of the accessibility status of your website. It shows which serious barriers exist and makes suggestions as to how they can be remedied before legal or economic risks arise.

The accessibility quick check at a glance

The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) presents itself with a fundamentally modernized website! With a fresh design, user-oriented structure, clear navigation and improved functions, the site now offers its international target groups intuitive access to the IAI's diverse collections, research projects and events. Discover Europe's leading center for the Ibero-American cultural area!

More information about the project

In order to provide teachers, pupils and specialist audiences with better access to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar's on-site offers and online materials, we were commissioned by the foundation to design a new educational portal and a tool for requesting individually customizable multi-day excursion requests.

In an intensive UX process, we worked closely with the Klassik Stiftung team to create an interactive prototype that was tested and optimized with users from the target groups. We are looking forward to the next phase of the project when it comes to implementing the new education portal!

More information about the project 

As part of the overall relaunch of its website, Humboldt University Berlin was looking for a partner who could provide conceptual and editorial advice to the individual university departments during the relaunch process and support them in various tasks.
We are delighted to have been awarded this contract and to be able to accompany and actively support the very different areas on their way to a user-oriented website!

Mitigation Action Facility (MAF) is a funding instrument administered by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
As part of the tender, an implementation partner was sought who would set up an instance of the existing opensource TYPO3 solution “Online Application Platform (OAP)” for the web-based submission of projects and adapt the platform to the needs of MAF.
We are very pleased to be able to use OAP once again and to be able to expand its functionality even further in this context!

In order to offer interested persons a generally accessible and clear possibility to search quickly, efficiently and in a targeted manner for documents of the G7 and G20 of the last decades, as well as keywords contained therein, we have developed a database with an associated website on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in 2021/22, which contains all relevant texts from approx. 500-800 documents, making them searchable and comparable.

The website and database are to be handed over to an international partner at the end of 2025. We are delighted to have been awarded the contract to keep both (security) technology up to date until then and to hand them over to the new operator in documented form.

More information about the project
To the database of G7/G20 outcome document

The International Climate Initiative (IKI) is an internationally oriented funding instrument of the German government, under which projects in the field of climate protection and biodiversity conservation are selected for funding through ideas competitions.

The aim of the current tender was to develop a replacement for the previous system for submitting application forms on an open source basis.

Based on the Open OAP extension for TYPO3 developed by cosmoblonde, we have designed and implemented a solution that, among other things.

• provides various forms for project funding that can be flexibly edited
• validates that only forms with the specified criteria can be submitted
• maintains a database for evaluation with an export option to other systems
• and users to set up an account to manage their project ideas at different stages

In addition to a user-oriented front end, the system has a back end that allows administrators to create forms and process and store data from submitted applications

You can experience Open OAP in the current IKI funding call here

Once again, we have applied for the relaunch of a university together with WTL Innohub and have been awarded the contract!
cosmoblonde will develop the UX concept and design for the new website of the Heidelberg University of Education Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg (PHHD), WTL Innohub will take over the Scrum process as well as the technical implementation in TYPO3.

We are delighted to have been given the wonderful task of making the special features and offerings of this vibrant university easily accessible to its target groups and to be able to collaborate once again with WTL Innohub!

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar (KSW) is a public cultural institution with over 27 museum facilities and is known both nationally and internationally. The foundation is a museum, a service provider with a library and archive and a research institution for various disciplines. Both on site in and around Weimar, as well as digitally, the KSW offers a wealth of knowledge and opportunities for exploration.
As part of the foundation's digital transformation, a new educational website is now to be created that will make the foundation's diverse digital and analog educational offerings accessible and usable for specific target groups.

We are very much looking forward to the exciting process of working with the foundation and representatives of the most important target groups to design a lively, smart offering that is geared towards the needs of users!

The German Prize for Online Communication (DPOK) is one of the most important awards for digital communication in the German-speaking world. 45 experts from various industries selected the best, most innovative and creative digital projects from 2023 and 2024. 

The barrier-free portal www.museen-in-bayern.de, realized by cosmoblonde, was shortlisted in the category "Science, Education & Culture" - we are very happy!

Fancy a little excursion into the Bavarian museum landscape?

The International Climate Initiative (IKI) is a funding instrument of the German Federal Government under which projects in the field of climate protection and biodiversity conservation are selected for funding through ideas competitions. The current system for submitting and processing project ideas is outdated and is to be replaced by a new one.

Im Auftrag der ZUG, einem Dienstleistungsunternehmen des Bundes, dessen Kerngeschäft Projektträgerschaften für Förderprogramme der Bundesressorts sind, soll nun ein neues Open Source basiertes System entwickelt werden, über das interessierte Organisationen mittels einem Online-Formular-Prozesses Projektideen bei der IKI einreichen können. Zusätzlich zu einem nutzerorientierten Frontend soll das System über ein Backend verfügen, das den Administrator*innen das Anlegen von Formularen sowie eine Datenverarbeitung und -speicherung der eingereichten Anträge ermöglicht.

We are very pleased to be able to adapt this system based on our TYPO3 solution for online application processes "Open Application Plattform" in an agile process, extended by complex form functions, optimally to the requirements of the International Climate Initiative and its applicants.

When creating the museen-in-bayern.de website, barrier-free accessibility of the website and its content was a key requirement from the outset. We are therefore all the more pleased that the website has now passed the official BIK test. 

Information on the test report can be found here

We have been developing the website of the Federal Cultural Foundation since 2018. Advise on expanding and optimizing the site with regard to user groups and usability, current developments on the web and in the foundation. Update and expand existing functions. Program (application) processes, extensions and interfaces. Provide support with editorial and design templates for the accessible website and ensure its security. We are always happy about the good and inspired cooperation.

What a joy that we can continue to do just that!

Since 2018, we have been managing the diverse web offering of the Foundation "Children do research" (formerly: House of little scientists) and are gradually developing it further in a target group-oriented manner.

We are very pleased to have been awarded the contract for the further support of the foundation's websites and look forward to continuing our good cooperation!

Together with WTL Innohub we applied for the relaunch of the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and were awarded the contract!

We are very excited to have been given the wonderful task of presenting this fine school of hoe in a target group-oriented way and to be working with WTL Innohub once again!

The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) is an interdisciplinary institution for academic and cultural exchange with Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. As part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), it houses the largest European library specializing in the Ibero-American cultural area and is a place of knowledge production, knowledge transfer and cultural translation.

The web presence of this unique information, research and cultural center has become outdated and is now to be fundamentally relaunched and modernized for the future. Having recently designed the Online SPK Magazin, we are delighted to have been awarded the contract for this beautiful and challenging task!