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NGC 1808 is a nearby barred spiral galaxy which hosts young stellar clustersin a patchy circumnuclear ring with a radius of $\sim 240\,\mathrm{pc}$. Inorder to study the gaseous and stellar kinematics and the star formationproperties of the clusters, we perform seeing-limited $H+K$-band near-infraredintegral-field spectroscopy with SINFONI of the inner $\sim 600\,\mathrm{pc}$.From the $M_\mathrm{BH}-\sigma_*$ relation, we find a black hole mass of a few$10^7\,M_\odot$. We estimate the age of the young stellar clusters in thecircumnuclear ring to be $\lesssim 10\,\mathrm{Myr}$. No age gradient along thering is visible. However, the starburst age is comparable to the travel timealong the ring, indicating that the clusters almost completed a full orbitalong the ring during their life time. In the central $\sim 600\,\mathrm{pc}$,we find a hot molecular gas mass of $\sim 730\,M_\odot$ which, with standardconversion factors, corresponds to a large cold molecular gas reservoir ofseveral $10^8\,M_\odot$, in accordance with CO measurements from theliterature. The gaseous and stellar kinematics show several deviations frompure disc motion, including a circumnuclear disc and signs of a nuclear barpotential. In addition, we confirm streaming motions on $\sim 200\,\mathrm{pc}$scale that have recently been detected in CO(1-0) emission. Due to our enhancedangular resolution of $<1\,\mathrm{arcsec}$, we find further streaming motionwithin the inner arcsecond, that have not been detected until now. Despite theflow of gas towards the centre, no signs for significant AGN activity arefound. This raises the questions what determines whether the infalling gas willfuel an AGN or star formation.

Star formation and gas flows in the centre of the NUGA galaxy NGC 1808 observed with SINFONI