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Summit 2024: Software Campus network meets in Berlin
On 18 and 19 November 2024, the Software Campus community met for the annual summit event in Berlin. Dr Stephan Pfisterer from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research welcomed programme participants and alumni, partners and representatives of the DLR Project…
Starting a business while studying: Omar El Nahhas shares his experiences
PhD student Omar El Nahhas is doing his doctorate at TU Dresden, has been a Software Campus participant since 2023 – and he did gain some experiences within the field of founding during his bachelor’s degree. For our article series “Behind the Code” Dr….
How to Foster the Adoption of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Although data privacy is a crucial topic, given how many digital technologies we use every day, assuring it from a technical perspective can still be a challenging task. While data protection regulations such as the GDPR provide a legal mandate and guidance for…
Training ‘Successful negotiating in a professional context’ at TRUMPF
Negotiating is part of everyday life as well as work life, sometimes on a small scale or over major subjects. While some do already have the right tools for negotiating successfully, for others, it’s a struggle. Software Campus participants learn how to navigate…
New 2024 cohort in the starting blocks
IThis year, we are welcoming a total of 44 new doctoral students in computer science to the Software Campus. After spring 2024 was dedicated to the application and selection process, the new cohort has now been accepted into the programme. On 2 September, all…
Cooperation extended with IFI programme
Building Bridges Mit großer Spannung haben wir auf den Start eines besonderen und neuen Trainings gewartet. Nun ist es soweit, die Workshopsaison von Bosch – einem unserer jüngsten Software Campus Partner – hat begonnen. Am 09. 10. Juli 2024 haben 12 Teilnehmende des Software Campus am Training „Fit for Business with the big 5: ABBA, Change, Pitch, Innovation Entrepreneurship” im Bosch Hauptsitz in Stuttgart-Feuerbach teilgenommen.
First Workshop at Bosch
Building Bridges
Since Bosch became our industry partner earlier this year, it is exciting news that their Software Campus training season has finally started.
From the 9th to the 10th of July,2024, 12 Software Campus participants attended the training “Fit for Business with the big 5: ABBA, Change, Pitch, Innovation & Entrepreneurship” at the Bosch headquarters in Stuttgart-Feuerbach.
New networking communities kicked off
Software Campus participants not only benefit from specialised training and funding for their own research project, but also from networking with each other and with companies, our industry partners in the program. A new environment for collaborative exchange and…
Entrepreneurship Workshop at K.I.E.Z.
Ready to take off
For the first time, we did organize an entrepreneurship workshop in collaboration with K.I.E.Z. in Berlin for 20 participants from the 15th to the 16th of May 2024.
The first day began with a short Q&A Session, to visualize and substantiate every participant’s expectation, and to make the workshop more individual and interactive. Followed by an introduction into the topic entrepreneurship.
New MOOC: „Eco-Tech: Decoding IT’s impact on a sustainable future”
What contribution can technologies make to tackling the climate crisis? We are exploring this question in a newly produced online course (MOOC), which is available since April 2024 at iversity.org. 9 experts from various fields provide insights into the connections…
Alumnus Felix Beierle as Postdoc in Tokyo with the German Academic Exchange Service
From Berlin to Tokyo
After the promotion at the Technische Universität Berlin – Software Campus, since mid-2022, the alumnus Dr. Felix Beierle does research at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) with the IFI-Program funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Tokyo. The IFI-Program of DAAD boosts the international mobility of German experts with scholarships; since 2021, there has been a collaboration between Felix Beierle and the Software Campus.
Bosch becomes a Software Campus partner
We would like to say a warm welcome to one of our latest Partners in our network, Robert Bosch GmbH, which has been part of the program since 01 January, they did join again.
Celonis is a new partner of Software Campus
We welcome a new industry partner to the program: Celonis joined the Software Campus as a partner on 1 January 2024. The company is the global market leader in the field of process mining, and empowers companies to pilot their business processes intelligently and data…
Summit at ZEISS: Broad program from science slam to founder pitches to leadership discussion
On 29 and 30 June 2023, program participants, partners and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as well as the DLR project management agency met for the summit at the ZEISS Innovation Hub @ KIT. A total of 21 participants presented their research projects as…
New application phase starts with online event
The Software Campus is seeking its new class! Our application platform will be open again from 1 February to 17 March 2024. If you are a PhD student in computer science or a related subject and want to enhance your leadership skills, the Software Campus offers you a…
Next Generation 2023
On September 12th, 2023, almost 30 participants and representatives of the DLR-Projektträger participated in this year’s kick-off in Berlin.The initial warmth and inspiring welcome by Stefan Jazdzejewski (Project Initiator) and our host Marc Reznicek (Forum Digital…
Software Campus supports Common Grounds Forum
Who will shape the digital policy of tomorrow? Who is asked? And who has a say? The Common Grounds Forum (CGF) supports young people between the ages of 16 and 35 to get involved in the discussion – whether they are activists, researchers or students. The Common…
Exchange and knowledge transfer again in the spirit of the Software Campus
The Software Campus Summit finally took place again on site on May 19 and 20 after a long break of more than two years. DATEV as one of the industry partners of the program sponsored the event and invited to the IT Campus in Nuremberg. There, nearly 120 visitors came…
Software Campus Summit June 29/30, 2023 in Karlsruhe
Der Summit ist die zentrale Veranstaltung des Software Campus, um alle Beteiligten des Programms zusammenzubringen. Eingeladen sind alle Teilnehmenden – ob das Projekt 2023 erst startet, gerade läuft oder bereits abgeschlossen ist. Der Projektträger sowie…
Software Campus begins a new application round with more intensive networking, a higher funding budget and a new training format
On 14.03.2023 a new round of applications will start in the Software Campus: We are looking for leadership talents with a background in technology. Within the funding program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), researchers together with…
New training: Sustainability as a corporate strategy at SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar
Sustainable consuming is important to many people. For example, they buy organic or Fairtrade products, live a vegetarian lifestyle, save energy where possible, use low emission means of transport, or use second-hand and upcycled products. But how does sustainability…
Stahl-Holding-Saar is the first sponsor of the Software Campus Alumni Verein e.V.
The Alumni Verein e.V. is increasing its activities within the Software Campus. The main goal of the association is to promote science and research and to support the applicants and participants of the Software Campus program with an advisory service. “Above all, we…
Summer is Kickoff time
On July 5, 2022, the kickoff of the new class of 22 took place. The 35 participants will soon start with their projects. Ms. Alexandra Hilfer and Mr. Holger Konle from DLR Projektträger briefed the participants with all the necessary information for a successful and…
Software Campus Summit 19. and 20.05.2022
The Summit is the central gathering of the Software Campus to unite all stakeholders of the program. All participants are invited – whether the project is just starting in 2022, is currently running, or has already been completed. The project management and…
SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar to become partner at Software Campus
The Software Campus welcomes another company to the partner circle: With the current application phase, SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar (SHS) joins the program with the two large companies Saarstahl and Dillinger. With more than 13,600 employees worldwide, they shape the…
Grundfos becomes a partner in Software Campus – shaping the world sustainably together.
The Software Campus partner network continues to grow. In the current application phase, Grundfos joins the program and is looking forward to accommodating program participants for the first time. Technology enables sustainability Grundfos has innovation strongly…
Software Campus at IT Summit 2016 in Saarbrücken
The 10th IT Summit in Saarbrücken on 16 and 17 November 2016 focused on digital education. The corresponding platform “Digitalization in Education and Science” is headed by Federal Minister Prof. Johanna Wanka and Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer. Chancellor Angela Merkel…
From research lab to leadership position: Software Campus celebrates 10th anniversary
In 2011, representatives from research and industry, together with Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, launched the Software Campus funding program to counteract the shortage of specialists and managers in the IT sector in Germany. Since then, a total of 452 excellent…
Alumnus Armin Moin co-founds low-code platform DriotData
Support for medium-sized businesses in digitization Digitization continues to be a challenge for Germany’s SMEs. When small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) want to develop digital services, they are often hampered by a lack of skilled workers: the right experts…
The new class in collaboration at the VHB Writers Workshop 2021
This year’s round of the Writers Workshop provided eight participants of the new class with an enriching exchange on their project descriptions (Vorhabensbeschreibung: VHB) for the Projektträger. The project descriptions are the essential instrument to unlock the…
With the IFI program to international research residencies
Research stays abroad are very well suited for making new contacts and thus advancing one’s career – both in scientific and entrepreneurial terms. In the new scientific everyday life you can get to know new colleagues as well as new approaches and thus improve your…
Introducing our new class of 2021
Let the games begin: the 49 participants of the class of 2021 have been selected and are ready to start the program. On 07.07.2021 they were welcomed at the virtual kickoff in the Software Campus. In order to capture the moment in a group picture despite the…
Volkswagen training “Diversity – successfully leading diverse teams and promoting potential”
With the training “Diversity – successfully leading diverse teams and promoting potentials”, the new Software Campus partner Volkswagen now extends the training program and encourages participants to self-critically reflect on their own patterns of thinking and…
Equality & Diversity – Initiatives of the Software Campus Partners
One of the “Sustainable Development Goals” of the United Nations is “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. They write: “Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable…
Sustainability starts with the code
Do computer scientists have an impact on the long-term effects of their work? The authors of the Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design answered this clearly for themselves in 2015: „As software practitioners and researchers, we are part of the group of people…
Software Campus welcomes Volkswagen as new partner – together on the path of digital transformation
The Software Campus partner network is growing: with the current application phase, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft is joining the program and accepting program participants for the first time in the upcoming batch. Under the motto “Shaping mobility – for generations to…
Software Campus supports #SheTransformsIT
“More women in digitisation – from classrooms to business to politics.” The Software Campus supports the new initiative She Transforms IT, which presented itself for the first time on the 30th of November 2020 at the German Digital Summit. Social media exchanges for…
„Isn’t that a stereotype here?“ – A conversation about equality and Male Allyship
In the Software Campus team, we are aware of the gender1 imbalance in IT and in leadership positions in general and would like to create an open and inclusive atmosphere for all within the framework of the program and offer our participants space for exchange. As…
Workshop: The Sustainability Awareness Framework
How does your research effect sustainability? Not just technically, but also from the social, individual, environmental and economic perspective? For example, what does it do when the number of users increases or a tool is used by someone not meant for him/her? We…
Lecture series of the SWC Alumni Association: Efficient Data Stream Processing in the Internet of Things
On 07.12.2020, the lecture series of the SWC Alumni Association will start with a lecture by Jonas Traub. Anyone interested can take part by clicking on the zoom link below. Titel: Efficient Data Stream Processing in the Internet of Things Abstract: The Internet of…
Graduate Patrick Holl founds Datahub Startup Fusionbase
There is another founder among the Software Campus graduates: Patrick Holl, a participant of TU Munich and DATEV eG, founded the start-up Fusionbase, a data hub for external data, a few months ago. The startup offers a solution for the so far difficult integration of…
New SWC batch 2020 in the wings
In the summer, 48 master and doctoral students were admitted to the new Software Campus batch. They are now in the process of finalising their project descriptions (VHB) in order to unblock the funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for their IT…
Engagement of the Software Campus partners against COVID-19
Many people, companies, and organizations around the world are committed to containing COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the partners in the Software Campus program are also involved – in many different areas depending on the industry and their…
The new projects of the Software Campus round 2019 are online
The 49 participants of the Software Campus Round 2019 have started their projects with great enthusiasm and you can have a look at some of them here on the Software Campus website. The spectrum of creative and innovative project ideas ranges from machine learning…
Software Campus on Tour 2020: Information for the upcoming application phase
From the 10th of February to the 20th of March 2020 the application platform of Software Campus will be opened again. Beforehand the Software Campus project team will be visiting the universities and research facilities to inform about the program itself and the…
Summit 2019: 23 projects, 22 graduates and a Science Slam
At the annual Software Campus Summit on the 14th and 15th of November 2019 participants, partners and sponsors of the program got to meet. 32 IT research projects which were presented in a poster and demo session. These projects were realized during the cooperation of…
Federal Minister Anja Karliczek tests AR-Use-Case at Software Campus information desk at the Digital Summit 2019
At this year’s Digital Summit taking place on the 28th and 29th of October 2019 in Dortmund Software Campus was represented again by participants of the program from DFKI and TU Darmstadt. They showed the Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek how…
Kickoff des aktuellen Jahrgangs am 18. Juli 2019
Auf der zentralen Kickoff-Veranstaltung für den aktuellen Jahrgang lernst du andere Teilnehmer*innen und ihre Projekte kennen. What you can expect ab 12:00 Ankunft und Mittagssnack 13:00 Hinweise des Projektträgers zum Antrag der Fördermittel 14:15 Kaffeepause und…
Dr. Ben Hermann and Dr. Lisa Nguyen participating at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2019
Software Campus Alumni Dr. Ben Hermann and current participant Dr. Lisa Nguyen have qualified for the participation at the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) (22 September to 27 September 2019). Both of them are currently doing research at the specialist group…
Universities celebrate 50 years of computer science together
At TU Dresden, TU Darmstadt, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München, and TU Saarbrücken, were the first nationwide university computer science programs set up in 1969. The five Software Campus research partners look back on a long tradition of teaching and…
Participants experience agility with SCRUM at DATEV training
To successfully manage projects and obtain targeted outcomes, a mixture of theoretical knowledge and practical training is decisive. This is why in Software Campus every participant manages their own IT research project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of…
One question, five doctoral candidates, 24 hours, one finished tool: Federal Minister of Education Karliczek meets participants at Digital Summit
This year’s Digital Summit, which took place on December 3 and 4 in Nuremberg, was primarily dedicated to the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). At the annual gathering politics, business and research come together intending to advance digital development. As in…
First participants from the University of Paderborn begin their Software Campus projects
In the spirit of computer pioneer Heinz Nixdorf, the University of Paderborn stands for interdisciplinary research and a close connection to the world of work. In July 2018, for the first time, three doctoral candidates from the University of Paderborn were accepted…
26 projects presented at Software Campus Summit
On July 2, participants of Software Campus once again gave insights into their research. 26 projects from the years 2014 to 2017 were presented at the summit with demonstrators and posters – from the planned project to the final result. In total, 70 visitors…
Patrick Lieser at final conference for SMARTER
“Disasters and crises can occur anytime and anywhere, this is why we should be sufficiently prepared.”, says Professor Matthias Hollik from the Technical University in Darmstadt. Especially this day and age, the mobile network is particularly vulnerable due to hacker…
Software Campus participants present their projects to Federal President Gauck
Federal President Gauck visited DFKI in Saarbrücken on May 2 together with about 30 foreign ambassadors working in Germany, including Prime Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The visit took place in the context of the Federal President’s information and encounter…
Software Campus graduate Tim Polzehl launches language assistant for refugees
Capiche is a translation and search service based on artificial intelligence (AI) and crowd wisdom and is supposed to lastingly improve communication of and with refugees in Europe. The first application with Capiche was developed in cooperation with the refugee…
Digitals rebels wanted: Providing new impulses for the digital future of the company at Rohde & Schwarz
Digitalization not only impacts business environments and models but the entire way we work. Ever-accelerating innovation cycles and agile development methods have changed the rules of how teams should be structured and work together. This also affects Rohde &…
Federal Minister Johanna Wanka meets partners and participants of Software Campus at Digital Summit
At the National IT Summit in 2011, the Software Campus was founded by Chancellor Angela Merkel to train young IT talents to become executives of the digital economy. After a successful round of projects with over 200 participants, the new program is now being…
Software Campus Summit 2017
At the Software Campus Summit 2017 on March 27 in Berlin, about 30 participants and graduates presented their IT research. The IT research projects are each realized with one industry partner and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with up…
Jonas Traub to receive Best Demonstration Award at EDBT
Jonas Traub is a doctoral candidate at the Database Systems and Information Management group (DIMA) at TU Berlin. In March 2017, he presented the demonstration “I²: Interactive Real-Time Visualization for Streaming Data” at the International Conference on Extending…
Sven Hertling presented with Best Paper Award at ICAART 2017
In his research project at Software Campus SuGraBo, which he realizes with Software AG, Sven Hertling from DFKI is researching a search engine for a graphic user interface. Therein he develops a framework to develop models from any, particularly already existing…
Software Campus at CeBIT 2017
Awards Alumni Fabian Bendun was honored with the CeBIT Innovation Award. With “SYOD” (Select Your Own Device), the latest development from Backes SRT GmbH, Fabian Bendun and, his colleagues won the third prize at this year’s CeBIT Innovation Awards. “SYOD” ensures a…
Master’s students begin IT research projects in spring 2017
Some master’s students started the year 2017 by enrolling at the Software Campus. The participants from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University will begin their IT research projects as…
Felix Beierle’s research stay in Asia
Together with his partners Deutsche Telekom AG and Technical University of Berlin, participant Felix Beierle is doing his PhD project DYNAMIC on dynamic social graphs in distributed online social networks. As part of the Software Campus research project, he went to…
Matthias Budde at ACE 2016 in Osaka
In cooperation with his partners, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Siemens AG, diploma computer scientist Matthias Budde deals with environmental measurements in his software campus research project “FeinPhone“. Here he wants to create the possibility to measure…
Practical phase at SAP in Sophia Antipolis, France
Alexander Fromm is doing his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich and cooperating with SAP at the Software Campus. As part of the Software Campus, he got to know the SAP site in Sophia Antipolis, France. Alexander, what is your research area? In my…
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vogelsang receives Kamm-Jante Medal
The Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorentechnik (WKM) aims to promote science and research, scientific teaching, study and training of young scientists in the field of automotive and engine technology. Every two years, the WKM awards the…
Dr. Juan Haladjian receives Honorable Mention Award at ISWC 2016
Software Campus graduate Dr. Juan Haladjian received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich and researched his project eTextIDE, in which so-called “intelligent” garments are equipped with electronic elements, in cooperation with his Software Campus…
TUM zählt zu den fünf innovativsten Universitäten Europas
Die Technische Universität München (TUM) gehört zu den fünf innovativsten Universitäten Europas. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt das neue Ranking „Reuters Top 100“. Die britische Wirtschaftsnachrichtenagentur hat für ihre Rangliste ausgewertet, wie stark die Universitäten…
Career at Software AG
Bringing together participants and industry partners from the German IT sector is one of the primary goals of the Software Campus. IT talents in their master’s degree or doctorate can get to know potential employers at an early stage and companies can find suitable…
IT research project Telko 3D: Implementation completed
The use of supporting communication technology in everyday work is ubiquitous – and thanks to teleconferencing systems, teams can interactively exchange information over long distances and collaborate intensively. However, the technology also sets limits – everyone…
With Siemens mentoring to the USA
Further education, gaining experience and building a network are essential for the career as well as the motivation of many participants to join the Software Campus. Working with an industry partner provides a direct insight into the company’s culture and processes….
18.000 km, 6 weeks and 2 findings – Philipp Diebold’s research stay in New Zealand
A research stay abroad is at the top of the wishlist for many students and doctoral candidates. Philipp Diebold spent six weeks on the other side of the world, in the country of Kiwis, Frodo and Mordor: New Zealand. The Munich-born participant was able to finance his…
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for Christian Stab
Software Campus participant Christian Stab does research at TU Darmstadt in the field of ubiquitous knowledge processing. At Software Campus he collaborates with the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group to realize his IT research project “Intelligent Assistance for…
Federal Minister Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka says goodbye to graduates at CeBIT
During her visit to Software AG’s CeBIT booth, Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka congratulated 17 graduates on completing the Software Campus. Together with Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG, the Minister of Education said farewell to the graduates of the training…