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We train the leaders of tomorrow. Doctoral students in computer science carry out research projects as project leaders together with a company, build up new knowledge on management and leadership in training courses and are accompanied by experienced managers in mentoring. This prepares them for leadership positions or starting their own company.
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Training sessions for participants will start in April
30. Mar 2026As in every year, with the beginning of spring, our training season starts as well. This year, out of 43 diverse training days, our participants…
New industry partner at Software Campus: Snowflake strengthens the program
02. Feb 2026The 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…
2 February to 15 March: New application phase for the Software Campus
10. Dec 2025Online information event on 3 February Software Campus is looking for PhD students in computer science! It supports you as a computer science Ph.D. student…
Summit 2025: The Software Campus-Community Meets in Berlin
09. Dec 2025On 3 and 4 December, the Software Campus network gathered at the Fraunhofer Forum in Berlin for its annual summit. The event was opened by…
Training about “Distributed Leadership & Self-Organization” at Deutsche Bahn
30. Sep 2025On September 23 and 24, DB Systel, Deutsche Bahn's IT service provider, held its first training at the Software Campus on “Distributed Leadership & Self-Organization”.…
Workshop on Entrepreneurship: From Research to Market
25. Sep 2025To support Software Campus participants in their start-up activities, we once again invited them to an entrepreneurship workshop in Berlin. We also joined forces with…
New cohort of 2025 kicks off in Berlin
11. Jul 2025The newly admitted cohort of the Software Campus met for the first time in Berlin on the 7th of July, 2025. We were hosted by…
Interview with Software Campus-Alumnus Dr. Moritz Fuchs & -participant Yannik Frisch
05. Jun 2025Software Campus alumnus Dr. Moritz Fuchs was and participant Yannik Frisch is pursuing their doctorates at TU Darmstadt in the field of computer vision. They are researching how to create synthetic data sets for highly realistic simulations that can be used for cataract surgery trainings.
Software Campus projects and founders at the GITEX Europe tech fair
27. May 2025The 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…
Communities of Practice continue to grow with the onboarding of the new cohort
10. May 2025Around 100 participants and graduates of the Software Campus are already engaged in the nine Communities of Practice. They have continued to grow with the…
Kicking Off 2025 with Celonis into Conflict Management
18. Mar 2025Conflict 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…
Reflecting the first year of Communities of Practice
12. Feb 2025Every year, about 40 new participants join the Software Campus, while the previous class is still working on its projects and the class before is…
22.01.2025: Information event on the application phase
02. Dec 2024Apply for Software Campus from 20 January until 2 March Software Campus is looking for PhD students in computer science! In this online information event…
Summit 2024: Software Campus network meets in Berlin
25. Nov 2024From November 18th to 19th, 2024, the Software Campus community met for the annual summit event in Berlin. Dr Stephan Pfisterer from the Federal Ministry…
Starting a business while studying: Omar El Nahhas shares his experiences
12. Nov 2024PhD student Omar El Nahhas is doing his doctorate at TU Dresden, has been a Software Campus participant since 2023 - and he did gain…
How to Foster the Adoption of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
30. Oct 2024Although data privacy is a crucial topic, given how many digital technologies we use every day, assuring it from a technical perspective can still be…
Training ‘Successful negotiating in a professional context’ at TRUMPF
16. Oct 2024Negotiating is part of everyday life as well as work life, sometimes on a small scale or over major subjects. While some do already have…
New 2024 cohort in the starting blocks
12. Sep 2024IThis year, we are welcoming a total of 44 new doctoral students in computer science to the Software Campus. After spring 2024 was dedicated to…
Cooperation extended with IFI programme
13. Aug 2024Building 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
01. Aug 2024Building 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
26. Jun 2024Software Campus participants not only benefit from specialised training and funding for their own research project, but also from networking with each other and with…
Entrepreneurship Workshop at K.I.E.Z.
30. May 2024Ready 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”
02. May 2024What contribution can technologies make to tackling the climate crisis? We are exploring this question in a newly produced online course (MOOC), which is available…
Alumnus Felix Beierle as Postdoc in Tokyo with the German Academic Exchange Service
30. Apr 2024From 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
22. Mar 2024We 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
23. Jan 2024We welcome a new industry partner to the program: Celonis joined the Software Campus as a partner on 1 January 2024. The company is the…
Summit at ZEISS: Broad program from science slam to founder pitches to leadership discussion
15. Jan 2024On 29 and 30 June 2023, program participants, partners and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as well as the DLR project management agency…
New application phase starts with online event
15. Dec 2023The Software Campus is seeking its new class! Our application platform will be open again from 1 February to 17 March 2024. If you are…
Next Generation 2023
13. Sep 2023On 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…
Software Campus supports Common Grounds Forum
10. Aug 2023Who will shape the digital policy of tomorrow? Who is asked? And who has a say? The Common Grounds Forum (CGF) supports young people between…
Exchange and knowledge transfer again in the spirit of the Software Campus
24. May 2023The Software Campus Summit finally took place again on site on May 19 and 20 after a long break of more than two years. DATEV…
Software Campus Summit June 29/30, 2023 in Karlsruhe
22. Mar 2023
Software Campus begins a new application round with more intensive networking, a higher funding budget and a new training format
27. Jan 2023On 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…
New training: Sustainability as a corporate strategy at SHS-Stahl-Holding-Saar
21. Nov 2022Sustainable consuming is important to many people. For example, they buy organic or Fairtrade products, live a vegetarian lifestyle, save energy where possible, use low…
Stahl-Holding-Saar is the first sponsor of the Software Campus Alumni Verein e.V.
08. Nov 2022The 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…
Summer is Kickoff time
06. Jul 2022On July 5, 2022, the kickoff of the new class of 22 took place. The 35 participants will soon start with their projects. Ms. Alexandra…
Software Campus Summit 19. and 20.05.2022
02. Mar 2022The Summit is the central gathering of the Software Campus to unite all stakeholders of the program. All participants are invited – whether the project…
SHS – Stahl-Holding-Saar to become partner at Software Campus
28. Feb 2022The 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…
Grundfos becomes a partner in Software Campus – shaping the world sustainably together.
10. Feb 2022The Software Campus partner network continues to grow. In the current application phase, Grundfos joins the program and is looking forward to accommodating program participants…
Software Campus at IT Summit 2016 in Saarbrücken
12. Dec 2021The 10th IT Summit in Saarbrücken on 16 and 17 November 2016 focused on digital education. The corresponding platform “Digitalization in Education and Science” is…
From research lab to leadership position: Software Campus celebrates 10th anniversary
08. Nov 2021In 2011, representatives from research and industry, together with Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel, launched the Software Campus funding program to counteract the shortage of specialists…
Alumnus Armin Moin co-founds low-code platform DriotData
18. Oct 2021Support 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…
The new class in collaboration at the VHB Writers Workshop 2021
29. Sep 2021This 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…
With the IFI program to international research residencies
18. Aug 2021Research stays abroad are very well suited for making new contacts and thus advancing one’s career – both in scientific and entrepreneurial terms. In the…
Introducing our new class of 2021
07. Jul 2021Let 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…
Volkswagen training “Diversity – successfully leading diverse teams and promoting potential”
06. Apr 2021With the training “Diversity – successfully leading diverse teams and promoting potentials”, the new Software Campus partner Volkswagen now extends the training program and encourages…
Equality & Diversity – Initiatives of the Software Campus Partners
24. Feb 2021One of the “Sustainable Development Goals” of the United Nations is “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. They write: “Gender equality is…
Sustainability starts with the code
15. Feb 2021Do 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…
Software Campus welcomes Volkswagen as new partner – together on the path of digital transformation
08. Feb 2021The Software Campus partner network is growing: with the current application phase, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft is joining the program and accepting program participants for the first…
Software Campus supports #SheTransformsIT
22. Dec 2020“More women in digitisation – from classrooms to business to politics.” The Software Campus supports the new initiative She Transforms IT, which presented itself for…
„Isn’t that a stereotype here?“ – A conversation about equality and Male Allyship
15. Dec 2020In the Software Campus team, we are aware of the gender1 imbalance in IT and in leadership positions in general and would like to create…
Workshop: The Sustainability Awareness Framework
07. Dec 2020How does your research effect sustainability? Not just technically, but also from the social, individual, environmental and economic perspective? For example, what does it do…
Lecture series of the SWC Alumni Association: Efficient Data Stream Processing in the Internet of Things
17. Nov 2020On 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…
Graduate Patrick Holl founds Datahub Startup Fusionbase
23. Oct 2020There 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…
New SWC batch 2020 in the wings
06. Oct 2020In the summer, 48 master and doctoral students were admitted to the new Software Campus batch. They are now in the process of finalising their…
Engagement of the Software Campus partners against COVID-19
12. May 2020Many 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…
The new projects of the Software Campus round 2019 are online
07. Apr 2020The 49 participants of the Software Campus Round 2019 have started their projects with great enthusiasm and you can have a look at some of…
Software Campus on Tour 2020: Information for the upcoming application phase
12. Dec 2019From the 10th of February to the 20th of March 2020 the application platform of Software Campus will be opened again. Beforehand the Software Campus…
Summit 2019: 23 projects, 22 graduates and a Science Slam
18. Nov 2019At the annual Software Campus Summit on the 14th and 15th of November 2019 participants, partners and sponsors of the program got to meet. 32…
Federal Minister Anja Karliczek tests AR-Use-Case at Software Campus information desk at the Digital Summit 2019
29. Oct 2019At 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…
Kickoff des aktuellen Jahrgangs am 18. Juli 2019
18. Jul 2019Auf 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…
Dr. Ben Hermann and Dr. Lisa Nguyen participating at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2019
08. Jul 2019Software Campus Alumni Dr. Ben Hermann and current participant Dr. Lisa Nguyen have qualified for the participation at the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) (22…
Universities celebrate 50 years of computer science together
12. Jun 2019At TU Dresden, TU Darmstadt, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München, and TU Saarbrücken, were the first nationwide university computer science programs set up…
Participants experience agility with SCRUM at DATEV training
18. Dec 2018To successfully manage projects and obtain targeted outcomes, a mixture of theoretical knowledge and practical training is decisive. This is why in Software Campus every…
One question, five doctoral candidates, 24 hours, one finished tool: Federal Minister of Education Karliczek meets participants at Digital Summit
13. Dec 2018This 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…
First participants from the University of Paderborn begin their Software Campus projects
01. Aug 2018In the spirit of computer pioneer Heinz Nixdorf, the University of Paderborn stands for interdisciplinary research and a close connection to the world of work.…
26 projects presented at Software Campus Summit
31. Jul 2018On July 2, participants of Software Campus once again gave insights into their research. 26 projects from the years 2014 to 2017 were presented at…
Patrick Lieser at final conference for SMARTER
03. Jul 2018“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…
Software Campus participants present their projects to Federal President Gauck
03. May 2018Federal 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…
Software Campus graduate Tim Polzehl launches language assistant for refugees
26. Apr 2018Capiche is a translation and search service based on artificial intelligence (AI) and crowd wisdom and is supposed to lastingly improve communication of and with…
Digitals rebels wanted: Providing new impulses for the digital future of the company at Rohde & Schwarz
26. Apr 2018Digitalization 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…
Federal Minister Johanna Wanka meets partners and participants of Software Campus at Digital Summit
31. Aug 2017At the National IT Summit in 2011, the Software Campus was founded by Chancellor Angela Merkel to train young IT talents to become executives of…
Software Campus Summit 2017
22. Aug 2017At the Software Campus Summit 2017 on March 27 in Berlin, about 30 participants and graduates presented their IT research. The IT research projects are…
Jonas Traub to receive Best Demonstration Award at EDBT
03. Apr 2017Jonas Traub is a doctoral candidate at the Database Systems and Information Management group (DIMA) at TU Berlin. In March 2017, he presented the demonstration…
Sven Hertling presented with Best Paper Award at ICAART 2017
03. Apr 2017In his research project at Software Campus SuGraBo, which he realizes with Software AG, Sven Hertling from DFKI is researching a search engine for a…
Software Campus at CeBIT 2017
31. Mar 2017Awards Alumni Fabian Bendun was honored with the CeBIT Innovation Award. With “SYOD” (Select Your Own Device), the latest development from Backes SRT GmbH, Fabian…
Master’s students begin IT research projects in spring 2017
13. Feb 2017Some 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…
Felix Beierle’s research stay in Asia
02. Feb 2017Together with his partners Deutsche Telekom AG and Technical University of Berlin, participant Felix Beierle is doing his PhD project DYNAMIC on dynamic social graphs…
Matthias Budde at ACE 2016 in Osaka
18. Jan 2017In cooperation with his partners, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Siemens AG, diploma computer scientist Matthias Budde deals with environmental measurements in his software campus…
Practical phase at SAP in Sophia Antipolis, France
15. Dec 2016Alexander Fromm is doing his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich and cooperating with SAP at the Software Campus. As part of the Software…
Prof. Dr. Andreas Vogelsang receives Kamm-Jante Medal
12. Dec 2016The Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorentechnik (WKM) aims to promote science and research, scientific teaching, study and training of young scientists in the field…
Dr. Juan Haladjian receives Honorable Mention Award at ISWC 2016
18. Nov 2016Software 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…
TUM zählt zu den fünf innovativsten Universitäten Europas
13. Nov 2016Die Technische Universität München (TUM) gehört zu den fünf innovativsten Universitäten Europas. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt das neue Ranking „Reuters Top 100“. Die britische Wirtschaftsnachrichtenagentur…
Career at Software AG
17. Aug 2016Bringing together participants and industry partners from the German IT sector is one of the primary goals of the Software Campus. IT talents in their…
IT research project Telko 3D: Implementation completed
17. Aug 2016The use of supporting communication technology in everyday work is ubiquitous – and thanks to teleconferencing systems, teams can interactively exchange information over long distances…
With Siemens mentoring to the USA
10. Aug 2016Further education, gaining experience and building a network are essential for the career as well as the motivation of many participants to join the Software…
18.000 km, 6 weeks and 2 findings – Philipp Diebold’s research stay in New Zealand
20. Jun 2016A research stay abroad is at the top of the wishlist for many students and doctoral candidates. Philipp Diebold spent six weeks on the other…
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award for Christian Stab
20. Jun 2016Software Campus participant Christian Stab does research at TU Darmstadt in the field of ubiquitous knowledge processing. At Software Campus he collaborates with Holtzbrinck to…
Federal Minister Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka says goodbye to graduates at CeBIT
10. May 2016During 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…
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