Since the Cyber Valley research consortium was founded at the end of 2016, the partnership between academic institutions and private sector companies has promoted the development of a thriving ecosystem in southwestern Germany. Each year, new and multidisciplinary initiatives have been added to the mix, and the Stuttgart-Tübingen region keeps gaining momentum as a European hotspot for research and innovation in the fields of machine learning, robotics, and computer vision.
In the area of specialists and expertise:
- The two Clusters of Excellence “Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture” (IntCDC) and “Data-Integrated Simulation Science” (SimTech) at the University of Stuttgart
- The “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science” Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
- The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-IS) graduate program
- The AI Software Academy (AISA) at the University of Stuttgart for Master and Ph.D. students
- New Cyber Valley research groups and new university chairs in machine learning, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and computer vision at the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen
- The University of Stuttgart’s new profile “Intelligent Systems for a Sustainable Society”
- The European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
- The ELLIS Institute in Tübingen funded with 100 million euros by the Hector Foundation until 2032
- The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart and Tübingen
- The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen
- Arena 2036 on the University of Stuttgart campus, a research factory that promotes the hardware-based knowledge production of the future
- The Tübingen AI Center – the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Competence Center for AI and Machine Learning
In the area of societal impact:
- The Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) pioneering initiative of the University of Stuttgart
- The Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI Center), one of four of Science of Science Communication Centers by Volkswagen Foundation
- Germany’s first Master’s degree program in machine learning at the University of Tübingen
- The Federal AI Competition (BWKI)
- Cyber Valley’s Public Engagement, “AI and society: Exploring possible futures”, with formats including KI Makerspace, Cyber Storys, AI Office Hours, Cyber Valley Podcast, Journalist-in-residence program and more
- Foundations which support Cyber Valley: Christian Bürkert Foundation, Gips Schüle Foundation, Vector Foundation, and Carl-Zeiss Foundation
- Cyber Valley’s Public Advisory Board (PAB) as an independent committee
In the area of economic development:
- The Cyber Valley Start-up Network
- The Cyber Valley Investor Network
- The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft’s AI innovation center Learning Systems in Stuttgart
- The AI Breakthrough Hub
- The Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Tübingen
- Two Bosch “Industry on Campus” professorships
- The Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in Renningen
- Bosch and Amazon research centers in Tübingen: Bosch plans to build an AI Campus that will host 700 AI researchers, and Amazon will expand its research center to 200 employees