The Center's goal is to equip small and medium-sized enterprises of our region with a cadre of scientific know-how. An additional task of the Center for Technology and Knowledge Transfer is to develop purposeful resources at Viadrina as a result of identifying and comprehending the problems regional enterprises face with regard to business development, legal matters and cultural competence.  The transfer center provides firms with contact to Viadrina's professors, faculty and staff.  The ultimate goal of the Center for Technology and Knowledge Transfer is to market Frankfurt (Oder) as a center of technological and philosophical competence by jointly representing Viadrina European University and IHP as the important, competent, intellectual resources that they are.