Our Partner Institutions
Cutting-edge research and excellent education come together at our institute. We attach great importance to involving our heterogeneous and, above all, strong partner network in both our research work and our teaching.
Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it)
The Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) is one of Europe's leading institutions for cutting-edge research and higher education in information technology. It shapes the digital transformation in exchange with business and society and focuses on data science and its application areas media, life sciences and autonomous systems.
The b-it offers a highly qualified international master's program in Computer Science and applied IT. Many courses in these programs focus on aspects of modern data science and prepare students for careers in industry and academia. The courses are taught in English and at the highest international level and are accompanied by practical laboratory work at the participating Fraunhofer Institutes.
Bonn Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics
The Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics is an institute of the University of Bonn for research on discrete mathematics. The institute focuses in particular on combinatorial optimization and chip design.
Bonn Research Alliance (BORA)
The University of Bonn has maintained strong collaborations with a large number of non-university research institutions in the Bonn region for decades. To give these collaborations more visibility and a stronger framework, the University of Bonn initiated the Bonn Research Alliance (BORA) in 2018.
The cooperation in BORA promotes the growth of Bonn as a research location through the development of the University of Bonn and its members: in the expansion of the research profile, the support of young scientists and the improvement of research infrastructure. BORA is also a key measure in the successful Excellence Strategy. The association currently comprises 12 scientific institutions in the region, which belong to the four national research associations Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, Leibniz and Max Planck, the regional Johannes Rau Research Association and the UN.
Cyber Security Cluster Bonn
True to the motto "shaping cyber security together", the Cyber Security Cluster Bonn promotes Cyber Security through cooperation and knowledge transfer — both practically and operationally.
The close cooperation between companies, authorities, and research in the
cluster forms the basis for the forward-looking further development of cyber
of Cyber Security for society and the economy.
Digital Hub
The DIGITALHUB.DE is the contact point for all digital start-ups in the Bonn/Rhine-Sieg region. In addition to a variety of events for founders and entrepreneurs, the hub is a development and meeting place for digital start-ups, companies, science and research.
ENACOM
The Transfer Center enaCom supports members of the University of Bonn from start-up projects to transfer projects in cooperation with business, society and politics. Our aim is to disseminate knowledge about transfer paths and specific transfer projects to the public. We advise start-up teams and provide support for a wide range of transfer activities. We are the point of contact for internal and external inquiries about start-ups and other transfer activities at the university.
PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence
PhenoRob conducts world-leading research in the field of robotics and phenotyping for sustainable plant production. The vision of the Cluster of Excellence is to transform crop production by optimizing breeding and agricultural management through the development and application of new technologies. PhenoRob thus tackles a real problem with a technology-oriented approach. The scientists involved come from the fields of computer science, geodesy, robotics, plant sciences, soil science, economics and environmental sciences. The interdisciplinary team forms the only DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence in the field of agriculture.
Research Center Jülich
Research Center Jülich (FZJ) is one of the largest interdisciplinary science centers in Europe. The approximately 6,500 employees conduct research using cutting-edge technologies in the fields of energy, information and bioeconomy: they use a unique infrastructure of large-scale equipment - from supercomputers and neutron sources to high-resolution electron microscopes. For example, the scientists are developing quantum computers, advancing brain research and offering solutions for sustainable management.
The diversity of topics, unique research facilities and people allows the teams to take a holistic view: They conduct interdisciplinary basic research, and do so on a wide variety of scales - from investigations at the atomic level to simulations on a global scale. The aim is to make significant contributions to the key issues of our time.
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
As a partner for digitalization, Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things, Fraunhofer FIT develops IT solutions that are tailored to people and fit seamlessly into business processes. Fraunhofer FIT's research is divided into four application domains: Digital Energy, Digital Health, Digital Sustainability and Digital Business. This is where the five core competencies of the institute, based in Sankt Augustin, are derived from: Human-Centered Engineering & Design, Cooperation Systems, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Microsimulation & Econometric Data Analysis, Information Systems Engineering.
Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE
The Fraunhofer FKIE develops technologies and processes with the aim of identifying risks that threaten the existence of the company at an early stage, minimizing them and making them manageable. In close cooperation with strategic partners, the institute is dedicated to the entire processing chain of data and information: from acquisition, transmission and processing through to reliable protection.
Research focuses on the development of effective and efficient human-machine systems in which people are at the center as decision-makers and responsible actors.
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS
Fraunhofer IAIS is one of the leading scientific institutes in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data in Germany and Europe. Fraunhofer IAIS, based in Sankt Augustin and Dresden, is shaping the digital transformation of our working and living environment: with innovative AI applications for industry, health and sustainability, with pioneering technologies such as large AI language models or quantum machine learning, with offers for training and further education or for testing AI applications for security and trustworthiness.
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI
Fraunhofer SCAI is a partner to industry in the fields of computational science and optimization, as well as information extraction from large data sets.
The institute, based in Sankt Augustin, models and optimizes industrial applications, develops software and services for product design, process development and production, and offers calculations on high-performance computers with the aim of shorter development times, more cost-effective experiments and optimized processes.
German Informatics Society (GI)
With around 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members, including our Institute of Computer Science, the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) is the largest and most important professional society for computer science in the German-speaking world and has represented the interests of computer scientists in science, business, public administration, society and politics since 1969.
With 14 specialist areas, over 30 active regional groups and countless specialist groups, the GI is a platform and mouthpiece for all disciplines in computer science.
Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
The Lamarr Institute is shaping a new generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that contributes to solving fundamental challenges in business and society in a powerful, sustainable, trustworthy and secure way. As one of Germany's central AI competence centers, the Lamarr Institute stands for value-based, internationally competitive and application-oriented cutting-edge research and is involved in science, education, and technology transfer at regional, national and European level.
Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen (RWTH)
With more than 47,000 students, the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University of Aachen is the second largest university for technical courses in Germany in terms of student numbers.
AI Service Center WestAI
WestAI gives players from business and science access to AI models and high-performance AI computing infrastructures. We support start-ups as well as small and medium-sized companies in using state-of-the-art AI technologies to turn innovative ideas into reality and open up new fields of application. Our services range from detailed advice on individual AI challenges and their implementation to the opportunity to attend one of our numerous AI training courses.