Always searching for optimal solutions - IT research and sciences in Hannover at a glance
The Hannover Region is home to a big community of research and educational institutions with a university, applied science universities, multimedia training schools and several research institutes. These stimulate the continuous transfer of expertise and technology, and underpin the broad spectrum of training available in the area in the information and communications technology sector.
) Informatics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology faculties
) Institute for Business Informatics
) Institute for Semiconductor Elements and Materials
) Institute of Communication Theory and Signal Processing
) Institute for Communications Engineering
) Information Technology Laboratory
) Department of Computer Networks and Distributed Systems.
) Regional Computing Centre Lower Saxony (RRZN)
) Lower Saxony Competence Centre
) Information Systems for Mobile Applications (Niccimon)
) Electrical engineering and information technology, applied informatics
) Information and communications
) Design and media
) Media management and multimedia communications
) Informatics and business informatics
) Institute for Medical Informatics
) “MHH virtual learning centre” project
The Learning Lab Lower Saxony (L3S), which is also at home in EXPO Park Hannover, is a research co-operation project between several German and international universities including the University of Stanford. L3S is involved in research, consulting and technology transfer, as well as infrastructure and support for innovative teaching and learning technologies for training and further education.
L3S has been responsible for co-ordinating the European Union’s “Professional Learning” (PROLEARN) excellence network since January 2004. Within PROLEARN, L3S co-ordinates a consortium of 19 prestigious European partners, including the Open University UK, the Ariadne Foundation and the Fraunhofer Society institutes. The project involves more than 215 scientists. PROLEARN also integrates around 100 additional institutes and companies such as British Telecom, Microsoft, IBM, etc.
