SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn
The SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn is an interdisciplinary research and innovation campus. The digital solutions of the future are developed here in close cooperation between business and science.
More than 30 member companies and over 30 professors from Paderborn University contribute their expertise and visions. The SICP unites the different worlds and ensures perfect matches when putting together project teams. We combine our expertise in the fields of AI, high-performance computing, IoT, digital security and software engineering to break new ground and develop intelligent solutions for innovative fields such as smart energy, advanced computing and seamless mobility.
In addition to the technological focus, we always address cross-cutting issues such as technology acceptance and human-machine interaction. Because we are convinced that only the intelligent combination of established technologies creates innovation!
„What makes the SICP special is our great team and the explicit focus of all our activities on cooperation between science, business and society in order to produce future-oriented and sustainable software- and data-driven innovations that generate high benefits.”
„Science can only shape a responsible digital future in cooperation with other social stakeholders. At the SICP, we conduct cutting-edge research that makes a difference: multidisciplinary, pioneering and with people at the center.”
„Cooperation and innovation are indispensable in the modern working world, but often end at company boundaries. At the SICP, research and application meet at eye level in a lively network in which we exchange knowledge in a spirit of trust and develop together.”
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Projekte
TRR 318-2 - Project C04: Metaphors as an explanation tool
Explanations of abstract explananda (such as AI systems) need metaphors to relate new, abstract knowledge to more concrete concepts. In the first phase, we studied how metaphors highlight and hide aspects to foster understanding, how to model their agency structure, and how they are used for explaining. In the second, we will investigate how to ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project RTG: Integrated Research Training Group
The RTG structures the further training of early career researchers and prepares them for their interdisciplinary research work by familiarizing them with different scientific practices, disciplinary cultures, methods, attitudes and values and by fostering communication across disciplines or discourse communities including the public. The RTG aims ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project Z: Central tasks of the Collaborative Research Center
Z is the central management hub of TRR 318: the project coordinates the budget, ensures internal communication, and organizes central events. In addition, Z pursues several missions aimed at best possible conditions, processes, and outcomes for the TRR’s research: offering an attractive interdisciplinary environment with empirical research support, ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
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