The Excellence Initiative Grants Committee has awarded funding to the proposed “Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science” and the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction”. Further information

Saarbrücken is one of Germany's premier computer science sites (member of Network for Innovation). The Department of Computer Science at Saarland University is regularly ranked amongst the very best sites. Moreover, the Saarbrücken University of Applied Sciences and several other institutions work on computer science research and education. E.g.:

• Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPI)
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
• German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Center for Bioinformatics (ZBI)
• International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science Dagstuhl Castle (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl
• Institute for Business Information Systems (IWI)

All those research institutions cover a large field of Information and Communication Technology.

The most important scientific awards are held by scientists of this site. E.g. one "Zukunftspreis des Bundespräsidenten", five Leibniz Awards, three Konrad Zuse Medals, and more. Moreover, the highest quality of Saarland Computer Science is also shown by many national and international cooperations.

A lot of IT enterprises are spin-offs of Saarland Computer Science. New foundations of enterprises are supported by the "Starter Center" on the campus of Saarland University and "Science Park I" and "Science Park II" nearby. Amongst the spin-offs are successful firms like IDS Scheer, Infor or SAP Retail Solutions.

Please feel free, to have a look at the following web pages, where you will find a lot of additional information and links.