Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

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Fraunhofer Institute for
Applied Information Technology FIT
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
Fraunhofer campus "Schloss Birlinghoven"
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Fraunhofer Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Facility location: Sankt Augustin and Aachen
Branch office: Business Informatics Project Group, Augsburg and Bayreuth; Fraunhofer Application Center SYMILA, Hamm
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Engineering
Areas of expertise: Information and cooperation systems
Basic funding: € 20 million total budget (2018)
Management: Stefan Decker and Matthias Jarke
Employee: approx. 200 (scientific staff)
Homepage: www.fit.fraunhofer.de
Birlinghoven Castle - Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, aerial photo (2015)

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT is an institution of the Fraunhofer Society . The institute is based in Sankt Augustin on the Birlinghoven Castle campus and is dedicated to applied research in the field of user-oriented information and cooperation systems .

history

The foundation goes back to the year 1968 and the former society for mathematics and data processing GmbH (GMD). Since the merger of GMD and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in July 2001, Fraunhofer FIT has been an institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

In 2011, the project group "Business Informatics" was founded at the University of Augsburg , which is headed by Hans Ulrich Buhl .

Research priorities

The institute bundles its range of services for partners from business and administration in five business areas: 

  • Cooperation and innovation management  develops technologies and research-based consulting concepts to support digitization in companies. The focus is on communication and cooperation solutions, training and further education, intelligent mobility, big data technologies for scalable analysis of heterogeneous data as well as innovative interaction and visualization solutions with mixed and augmented reality. 
  • Life science informatics  with a focus on microsystem technology and integrated image processing / imaging procedures for high-content analysis in the areas of diagnostics and drug research for drug development.
  • Internet of Things / energy efficiency  with a focus on cyber-physical systems for intelligent monitoring, optimization and control of systems and devices as well as solutions in the areas of smart factories, smart cities and Industry 4.0.
  • Usability and user experience design  with a focus on context-optimized human-machine interaction, optimal usability of applications or devices, usability qualification offers as well as web compliance and accessibility.
  • Sustainable financial management  in the operational and economic area, with a focus on micro-analytical simulation for legal impact assessment, as well as in the (risk) analysis and efficiency increase of complex business processes, including through tools for decision support.

The Microsimulation Models Department (MIKMOD) develops economic simulation models and elaborates empirical expertise that is used in particular for political issues. The most important clients are the Federal Ministry for Education and Research , the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth .

Infrastructure

Around 160 scientists from the fields of computer science , social science , economics , psychology and engineering work at the institute . The proportion of women is around 20%.

The institute is headed by Stefan Decker and Matthias Jarke , who also head the Chair of Computer Science 5 (Information Systems) at RWTH Aachen University .

In addition to its main location in Sankt Augustin and Aachen, the business informatics project group at the University of Augsburg and Bayreuth (Buhl) and the Fraunhofer Application Center Symila in Hamm (Mathis) are further branches.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Institute management , accessed on December 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine : Five million for Fraunhofer at the university ( memento of October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 26, 2011.


Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 13 ″  E