Hasso Plattner Institute

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Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH
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founding 1998
place Potsdam
state Brandenburg
country Germany
Institute director Christoph Meinel
Students 550
Employee about 60
including professors 19th
Website hpi.de

The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) is a privately financed IT institute and together with the University of Potsdam forms the Digital Engineering Faculty. It is located in Potsdam-Babelsberg . The institute was founded and named after the SAP founder and chairman of the supervisory board, Hasso Plattner . The sole shareholder is the non-profit Brandenburg foundation under civil law "Hasso Plattner Foundation".

history

Former main building, 2004

The HPI was created in 1998 through a public-private partnership . The sponsor is the non-profit Hasso Plattner Foundation . It has the legal form of a GmbH. The state of Brandenburg took part in this partnership by providing the 30,000 m² for the institute buildings on Griebnitzsee in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The construction of the three multi-storey buildings including the university institute for computer science cost 36 million euros, of which Hasso Plattner took over 18 million euros. The other half was funded by the European Union . When it was founded, Plattner declared that he would make 200 million euros available to the foundation for the ongoing operation of the institute over a period of 20 years. The campus was inaugurated on October 12, 2001.

In autumn 1999, the HPI started teaching as an affiliated institute at the University of Potsdam under the direction of Siegfried Wendt . The institute has been headed by Christoph Meinel since 2004 . At the beginning of the 2010/11 winter semester, the institute had around 450 students. At HPI they should learn to understand, develop and master complex IT systems and software products.

In the summer of 2010, the extension building with around 3800 m² of usable space was completed. It functions as the new main building of the HPI and houses various professorships, including the HPI Research School and the Design Thinking Research program.

Panorama of the campus, 2011

In June 2012, an agreed collaboration with Schufa in basic research into the technical processing of public data from social networks was terminated by the HPI, as it was due to massive criticism and the like. a. by Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner and the Schufa consumer advisory council. The critics feared that the data stored by users on Facebook, Twitter and other networks should be used to develop scoring procedures for assessing creditworthiness .

In April 2017, the HPI and the University of Potsdam founded the joint Digital Engineering Faculty, which is the first privately financed faculty of a public university in Germany. It is to be expanded into a university excellence center in the field of digital engineering and is fully financed by the Hasso Plattner Foundation.

There are currently 19 professors and around 50 research assistants working at the Hasso Plattner Institute. The institute administration has around 30 employees. The professors are usually appointed jointly with the University of Potsdam.

Education

Lecture hall building of the Hasso Plattner Institute

The course at the joint digital engineering faculty of the Hasso Plattner Institute and the University of Potsdam is characterized by its particular practical relevance and has been at the top of the ranking of the Center for University Development (CHE) for years . Every year for the winter semester, 80 applicants are accepted for the IT systems engineering course. You can complete the course as a Bachelor (after six semesters ) and Master (after another four semesters). The students are enrolled at the University of Potsdam and only pay the semester fees of the University of Potsdam.

The HPI currently offers students a bachelor's degree and four master's degrees to choose from.

courses

The bachelor's degree at HPI (80 places in one calendar year) is a practice-oriented computer science course. It not only conveys theoretical knowledge, but also concrete, practical knowledge and skills.

The master’s courses, Cybersecurity (30 places in one calendar year), IT Systems Engineering (60 places in one calendar year), Data Engineering (30 places in one calendar year) and Digital Health (30 places in one calendar year) are aimed at students for management and Management positions.

HPI School of Design Thinking

Following the example of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design in Palo Alto at Stanford University , the HPI School of Design Thinking was established at the Hasso Plattner Institute. In the 2007/08 winter semester, 40 students from almost 30 different subject areas took up the additional course for the first time. The Potsdam D-School works together with the d.school in Stanford .

In this “inventor's school”, students should learn an interdisciplinary approach to developing new products. In the part-time course, the ability to develop ideas for all areas of life is taught in two semesters. The teaching staff also consists of teams from different disciplines. Ulrich Weinberg is the head of the school. The lecturers - professors and academic staff for three classes (consisting of three groups of four to five students each) - come from various universities in the Berlin-Brandenburg area. The teaching staff is reassigned every semester.

HPI School of Entrepreneurship

The HPI School of Entrepreneurship (HPI E-School) supports students, alumni and scientists in implementing new business ideas. The services range from targeted advice to the provision of infrastructure and capital.

The HPI School of Entrepreneurship has been holding the business plan competition for entrepreneurs and startups since 2010. In three phases, the participants are supported by targeted feedback in the further development of their business idea. In the final, the best teams will present their business concepts to a jury and have the opportunity to win start-up capital and material support worth 100,000 euros.

Research & Projects

HPI Research School

The interdisciplinary research college was opened at HPI in 2005 . At the HPI Research School , young researchers from all areas of the HPI devote themselves to the subject of service-oriented systems engineering . A doctorate is supervised by two different HPI departments. Every year scholarships are awarded for work at the HPI Research School; in the 2007/08 winter semester, 15 researchers were active in the college.

openHPI

HPI has been operating the interactive online learning platform openHPI since September 2012 . The platform provides free access to current university knowledge in the fields of information technology and innovation. Every year users can choose from a large number of free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs for short) for IT beginners and experts. The institute issues certificates for successful participation in a MOOC, which participants can count towards their university as credit points. Courses from previous years can also be used for self-study after the course has ended. The institute wants to initiate a "new era of knowledge transfer".

School cloud

The school cloud project of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) aims to develop a uniform IT infrastructure for all schools. The project will be paid for by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with around 7 million euros over the period 2017–2021. Class preparation, appointment coordination and communication are planned.

The infrastructure and applications are to be privatized after the end of the project and subject to licensing. The solution should be vendor-neutral in terms of both content and devices. All applications and data are stored and maintained decentrally.

Technical implementation

The project is open source, the source code can be viewed and edited on GitHub , most parts are under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 .

The basis is cloud computing with a modular microservice architecture, which is intended to enable high scalability and the seamless connection and disconnection of individual components. In principle, individual services can be integrated into already existing learning platforms.

There is a web-based interface, and native apps for Android and iOS have also been planned since 2017 . Due to the underlying API-first paradigm, which means that all functions are provided via one API, and the associated separation of implementations, components can be exchanged and native applications can also be connected. The aim is to network and connect existing services from different providers. New solutions and components are only developed if they do not yet exist.

privacy

In order to ensure the practicability, several state data protection officers are working on the development. The development follows the principle of "privacy by design", which means that data protection and privacy have been treated as integral components of the project since the conception phase.

A concept for the pseudonymization of personal data when calling up external services such as teaching content or teaching tools was created. This prevents, for example, when using interactive learning applications, personal data is transmitted and the learning status can still be saved.

history

The project was launched in September 2016 and presented to the public at the National IT Summit in November of the same year by the then Federal Minister Johanna Wanka and HPI Director Christoph Meinel .

begin

The first pilot phase began in June 2017, in which 27 MINT-EC schools tested the software in practice. The MINT-EC is an association of around 250 grammar schools across Germany. From May 2018, the test operation was gradually expanded to all around 300 MINT-EC schools. The feedback from the schools flows into the development.

Lower Saxony education cloud

The project has been cooperating with the Lower Saxony state initiative N-21 since February 2018 , as both projects pursue identical objectives and strive for the same structure. 45 pilot schools of all school types were found for testing, which should work out how a cloud solution can be integrated into everyday teaching.

Developments in 2018

According to the coalition agreement of March 12, 2018, the federal government set itself the goal of the 19th legislative period to create a common cloud solution for schools in Germany.

In 2019, HPI attempted to register " HPI School Cloud " as a brand name, but an objection was filed.

Project partner

The project is accompanied by an advisory board made up of representatives from education, business and politics, including the Conference of Ministers of Education , the state data protection officers of Thuringia and Brandenburg, the software group SAP and the Association of Education Media.

During the test phase, learning content is made freely available by school book publishers such as Cornelsen and Westermann , the Khan Academy and the German Digital Library .

The German Telekom and the Aero Access GmbH have supported some test schools with infrastructure.

There is also accompanying research in educational science. In a Delphi study , the University of Tübingen is researching the potential of the HPI School Cloud with regard to areas of application and teaching scenarios. The University of Augsburg is discussing the challenges and opportunities of digitization in education in a massive open online course “Learning 4.0 - Possibilities & Limits of Digitization”, which is carried out together with openHPI . The Georg Eckert Institute carries out lesson monitoring at the MINT-EC pilot schools with regard to the use of the HPI school cloud and digital media.

Web links

Commons : Hasso Plattner Institute  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Andreas Wilkens: The Hasso Plattner Institute should achieve a “world-class level”. In: heise online . November 5, 2004, accessed October 2, 2012 .
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  10. ↑ Jan Kixmüller: Potsdam was well rated in the CHE ranking. In: www.pnn.de. May 9, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Degree programs: Bachelor . Hasso Plattner Institute. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  12. ↑ Degree programs: Master . Hasso Plattner Institute. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  13. ↑ HPI: Masters courses at the HPI. In: Website Hasso Plattner Institute. January 24, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Entrepreneurship at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
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  17. ↑ Liane M. Dubowy: OpenHPI offers free Linux online course. In: www.heise.de. January 8, 2018, accessed March 7, 2018 .
  18. ↑ openHPI. 2012, accessed October 2, 2012 .
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  24. ↑ Serious setback for the digitization of teaching: NRW stops the start of its school cloud - security concerns on news4teachers.de from October 24, 2017, accessed on April 26, 2018
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  26. ↑ New learning in the school cloud. In: Press release of the federal government. November 10, 2017 .;
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  28. ↑ Lower Saxony Cloud. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
  29. ^ Coalition agreement of the 19th legislative period between the CDU, CSU and SPD: A new departure for Europe, a new dynamic for Germany, a new cohesion for our country . March 12, 2018 ( cdu.de [PDF; accessed March 19, 2018]).
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  31. ↑ Accompanying research school cloud . October 30, 2017 ( osf.io [accessed March 19, 2018]).
  32. ↑ Learning 4.0 . January 8, 2018 ( hpi.de [accessed March 19, 2018]).
  33. ^ Schools in the Cloud: Scientific research accompanying the school cloud introduction . 2017 ( gei.de ).

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