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....
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New industry partner at Software Campus: Snowflake strengthens the program
The Software Campus is pleased to welcome Snowflake as a new industry partner. The program's partner network has grown to include 20 universities, research institutions and companies with the addition of this cloud-based data and AI platform provider. Snowflake's...
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...
Communities of Practice continue to grow with the onboarding of the new cohort
Around 100 participants and graduates of the Software Campus are already engaged in the nine Communities of Practice. They have continued to grow with the onboarding of the 41 doctoral students from the 2024 cohort, who are currently starting their projects. The...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...

















