Partners

Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) is part of faculty of Business Engineering at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). The Institute was founded in 1971 at the School of Economics and Business Engineering of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and has since then been responsible for the education in Informatics within the renowned program of Business Engineering at Karlsruhe as well as the program of Economics Engineering. Additionally, it offers courses for the students of Business Mathematics, Industrial Mathematics, and of the recently created program of Information Engineering and Management. More...

PROMATIS

Globalization and the needs of intelligent products and services are the key components of the markets from today and tomorrow. Market leadership in these markets requires knowledge leadership and superior business processes. PROMATIS provides support for the design of the business and knowledge processes and takes care of their realization into future-proof IT solutions which are the basis of an optimized use of the knowledge resources. More...

FZI

FZI is a non-profit contract research organisation that concentrates its efforts on novel information technologies for providers of investment and consumer products, of production or business products and of information services, and supports the development of innovative applications, primarily in engineering, on the basis of recent but already proven techniques. The organisation of FZI in that it permits professors to extend their efforts in academic research in the direction of more market-oriented activities, by providing a technical and organisational infrastructure that is particularly congenial to establishing close contacts to industry and service organisations. Most important, FZI offers its members a unique interdisciplinary environment that fosters joint research among diverse fields of Informatics, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Currently, professors from several different faculties co-operate closely under the roof of FZI. The Research Center for Information Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, is judged a unique model of interdisciplinary technology transfer that has now been operation successful since 1985. Today, FZI´s close to 100 scientists within 12 research groups, contribute to an annual turnover of some 8 million Euro. More...