6.2 Partner Announcements

itestra Invitation to Hackathon for Students

Philip Rauwolf of itestra writes to us: Du willst wissen, wie Möbeldesign und Coding zusammenhängen? Gemeinsam im Team stellst Du Dich beim itestra Creators Contest 2022 einer realen IT-Challenge und programmierst eine Anwendung als Grundlage für die digitale Möbel-Konfiguration. Erlebe ein einz...

Invitation to an Industry One-day Workshop on Modernizing Software

Philip Rauwolf of itestra writes to us: Dear Students, We cordially invite you to a day of project work on the challenging topic of software modernization. When and where? On December 14th in Munich. Teamed up with other students of computer sciences, you work on the replacement of a central i...

Red Hat’s New Open Communication Platform, Podium

Volkmar Reiss of Red Hat writes to us: The answer to the question on how communication with and between schools, universities, classes, teams etc should be permanently organized for 11 million school children and 2.9 million students. It is a central prerequisite for the now urgently needed exp...

Advent Calendars for ADAP and AMSE students by msg systems

Our ADAP and AMSE students got a visit from Markus Mirwald of msg systems AG. The distribution of presents seemed to be a little earlier this year, every student received a delicious advent calendar. Thank you for your visit!

A global entrepreneurship challenge for university students

Tom Siegel, an old friend, writes to me: We’d like to ask for your help to get the word out about a special program opportunity that could be of great interest for students from your department/university. Fishbowl-Challenge is a global Entrepreneurship competition for students interested in wor...

Help Endangered OpenSeaMap Survive (Admin)

Markus Bärlocher, leader of the OpenSeaMap project (OpenStreetMap for water ways and open water) writes to us: Eigentlich haben wir ein geiles Projekt - aber jetzt hat ein Hacker unseren Server gehackt…! Wir hatten ziemlich Panik, denn auf der Box liegen alle unsere Daten. Sie sind das „Gold...

Excursion to Rhode & Schwarz in Munich (in German)

Rohde & Schwarz writes to us: Auch in diesem Wintersemester möchten wir Sie, Ihre Kollegen sowie Ihre Studierenden zu einer Exkursion zu Rohde & Schwarz einladen. Wir freuen uns Ihnen ein breites Spektrum an Themen und einen exklusiven Einblick in die R&S Welt anbieten zu können. Neben Vortr...

FAU’s CKI and Siemens present the TAPAS Community Challenge

Software Engineering Camp on November 18-20th at Methodpark (in German)

Our fellow co-teachers at Methodpark in collaboration with the OpenBIT Foundation are holding an unconference on Nov 18-20 about software engineering. Find more information at https://openbit.eu/unkonferenzen/swe-camp2016/.

Future Mobility Days 2017 in Nuremberg on Feb 10-11

One of our industry partners, the Deutsche Bahn AG, will be hosting (but not organizing) the Future Mobility Days 2017 in their company museum in Nuremberg on February 10-11, 2017. The event will have a barcamp and a hackathon! We also would like to point to Deutsche Bahn's commendable foray into...