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Training sessions for participants will start in April

Training sessions for participants will start in April

As in every year, with the beginning of spring, our training season starts as well. This year, out of 43 diverse training days, our participants can freely choose their fours preferred trainings from the fields of methods, leadership, and social and self-competence....

Software Campus projects and founders at the GITEX Europe tech fair

Software Campus projects and founders at the GITEX Europe tech fair

The tech and start-up community and investors gathered at GITEX Europe in Berlin from 21 to 23 May 2025. The trade fair, a spin-off of GITEX Global in Dubai, took place in Europe for the first time. It was expected to attract 1,400 international tech companies, 750...

Kicking Off 2025 with Celonis into Conflict Management

Kicking Off 2025 with Celonis into Conflict Management

Conflict is inevitable—but when handled well, it can boost growth and build a stronger team. This week, Software Campus participants had the privilege of participating in Celonis’ first-ever training in our network, marking the start of this year’s training season....

Reflecting the first year of Communities of Practice

Reflecting the first year of Communities of Practice

Every year, about 40 new participants join the Software Campus, while the previous class is still working on its projects and the class before is (slowly) finalizing its work. This means that around 100 researchers are actively part of the community simultaneously. In...

How to Foster the Adoption of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

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...

New networking communities kicked off

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...

Alumnus Felix Beierle as Postdoc in Tokyo with the German Academic Exchange Service

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.

Software Campus supports Common Grounds Forum

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...

SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar to become partner at Software Campus

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...

Software Campus at IT Summit 2016 in Saarbrücken

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...

Alumnus Armin Moin co-founds low-code platform DriotData

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...

With the IFI program to international research residencies

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...

Graduate Patrick Holl founds Datahub Startup Fusionbase

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...