Dortmund University of Applied Science

Fachhochschule Dortmund
Das Institut für die Digitalisierung von Arbeits- und Lebenswelten (IDiAL)
Otto-Hahn-Straße 23
44227 Dortmund
Germany
Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katja Klingebiel
phone: +49 231 9112 4931
email: katja.klingebiel@fh-dortmund.de


- Largest university of applied sciences in the Ruhr region, among the 10 largest universities of applied sciences in Germany
- 4,544 students, including 2,557 international students, 265 lecturers and 8 faculties
- Application-oriented education in over 80 degree programs
- Third-party funding 2019: 12 million

- Fields of competence:
- Intelligent information and communication systems (IIKS)
- Efficiency technologies (EFF-TEC)
- Societal change - social and economic innovation (SÖI)
- R&D bundled in the Institute for the Digitalization of Working and Living Environments (IDiAL)
- Part of the ruhrvalley network of universities and companies, transfer interface to business, society and politics, doctoral college

- IDiAL thematic focus: networking of living and working environments, esp. modern networked production and logistics systems through complete IT penetration as a contribution to digitalization
- Development of applications and tools that make it easy for SMEs in particular to get started with digitalization
- Wanted: Partner companies from the SME sector with an interest in testing new technologies
