The business community continuously collects data and works with methods and standards that are of great interest to several scientific disciplines within the NFDI. Conversely, science also has data and methodological competencies that are significant for industry.

The Industry Engagement section is therefore concerned with the overarching design of collaborations between industry and the NFDI consortia, basic services and other sections. This includes, among other things, the creation of a joint exchange platform between industry and science, the identification and concretisation of overarching problem areas, possibly already an initial joint development of solution spaces as well as a standardisation and simplification of forms of cooperation within the NFDI. Parallel to the involvement of the business community in the work of the section, a continuous exchange with existing sections within the NFDI will be established.

Deputy Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph Eberl  

(Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V./ IWM und Universität Freiburg)

Industrial Advisory Board

Coordinated cooperation with industry, as the section strives for, thrives on continuous exchange. For this reason, the section has elected an industrial advisory board. The aim is to jointly develop and promote new forms of cooperation and the exchange of data between the two domains of science and industry.

• Christine Regitz – SAP SE
• Dr. Stefan Schmid – Robert Bosch Corporate Research
• Dr. Ina Sebastian – Infineon Technologies AG
• Dr. Feiyu Xu – nyonic GmbH

Publications

• White Paper: Collaboration Models Between Industry and Academia.