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    Government R&D for IT

The Fraunhofer ICT-Group is an alliance of 15 institutes that carry out research in the area of information- and communication technology and has a staff of approximately 2400 persons and an annual budget of more than 200 Million Euro. With these figures it is the largest research alliance for information and communication technology in Europe, and one of the largest in the world. The areas of study include:

  • System Design Technology: Cooperation and competition in network systems, Visualization techniques, Data mining, System analysis and simulation, Methods and tools for system design, Adaption, learning and optimization

  • Communication and Cooperation: Multimedia high-speed communication, Middleware and agent-based applications of telecooperation, Multimedia teleservices, etc.

  • Scientific Computing: Development of algorithms and applications for computer simulation, Bioinformatics, Programming models and tools for parallel systems, Industrial use of parallel and distributed computing

  • Intelligent Multimedia Systems: Digital distributed video production, Multimedia information systems and environment, Multimedia modeling and visualization, etc.

Recent Major Projects

 “Living and Working in a Networked World”: In July 2001 the Federal Government launched Germany’s largest internet and software development research initiative to link German ICT research institutions more closely and steer them towards common areas of investigation which could boost Germany’s competitiveness. The government spent approximately EUR 63 million on this project.

 “German Research Network”: Government-supported infrastructure development is an ongoing process and in June 2000 German researches got a 2.5 Gigabit/second network. Currently 559 academic institutions and universities are connected to the system, which is one of the fastest internet-2 networks in the world. In the meantime extensive R&D into expanding the network further and obtaining transmission rates in the terabit realm has commenced, subsidized by the Federal Government.