"Transferraum" is one of the two steering projects of the transfer alliance “Alterperimentale”. The transfer alliance aims to meet the challenges of the demographic structural changes in the fields of public services and care work - thereby enhancing the conditions for ageing well in rural regions. At the core of the transfer approach, decentralized practice-research centers act as local knowledge transfer spaces. They coordinate the cooperation and mutual learning processes between research and practice, ensure participation and identify research questions regarding the transfer alliance's research topics. "Transferraum" spans across the administrative districts Oder-Spree, Spree-Neiße and Görlitz. The civil initiative, Practice-research-center Heinersdorf serves as a provider of ideas as well as a template for the yet to be established research centers in Cottbus and Görlitz in cooperation with BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz.

The project "Transferraum" of the Chair of Regional Planning organises the greater strategy development and the evaluation of the "Alterperimentale". Furthermore, it is responsible for the operational  management, the scientific communication and the institutionalization of the transfer approach. The overarching goal of the project is to establish the "T!Raum Alterperimentale" and its transfer activities in the region. The exchange of knowledge and the cooperation with the partners and within the entire network are organised in close collaboration with the second steering project which takes care of developing already existing and new transfer formats. On a theoretical and empirical level, "Transferraum" contributes to the socio-ecological transformation of regional welfare structures and to the acceptance of regional transformation processes. In addition, it advances the development and application of spatial theories in these fields.