Metadata and Cooperative Knowledge Management

• ConfIDent – A reliable platform for scientific events

  ConfIDent aims to develop a service platform for the quality-driven, collaborative curation of semantically structured metadata of scientific events.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• AR-FOR-EU - Augmented Reality in Formal European University Education

  Based on specific disciplines taught at the partner universities, the aim of the project is to collaboratively create two multidisciplinary teaching courses (basic and advanced) on the topic of Augmented Reality (AR) that is suitable as specialisation in all participating fields (Computing, ICT, Media). The production of digital Open Educational Resources (OER), interactive eBooks and practical exercises, and implementation on the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) platform will foster uptake beyond the consortium.

• Doctoral Education for Technology-Enhanced Learning (DE-TEL)

  Doctoral Education for Technology-Enhanced Learning (DE-TEL) project will establish and deepen a strategic partnership for doctoral education in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). DE-TEL brings together 9 internationally renowned universities and the European Association of Technology-Enhanced Learning to reflect their expertise in doctoral education into a new internationally validated program in TEL, extended with rich and professionally produced Open Educational Resources. The project grounds the design of the new program in the best practices in TEL doctoral education across Europe as well as institutional and national requirements.

• EATEL

  The European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL) supports a network of European research laboratories and groups via free services, sponsoring high profile TEL events, a knowledge interchange, and a set of very active Special Interest Groups.

• Personalisierte Kompetenzentwicklung durch skalierbare Mentoringprozesse - tech4comp

  „Personalisierte Kompetenzentwicklung durch skalierbare Mentoringprozesse - tech4comp“ ist eines von derzeit neun Projekten, die in der Förderlinie „Innovationspotenziale digitaler Hochschulbildung“ in interdisziplinären Forschungskonsortien didaktische, technologische und organisationale Gestaltungsaspekte der Hochschulbildung beleuchten und so zur nachhaltigen Veränderung der Hochschullandschaft beitragen werden.

• PROLEARN Academy

  The PROLEARN Academy transfers research results into education and training programmes, international conferences, and scientific journals designed to federate and showcase European leadership in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning.

• Serious Game Framework

  A serious game framework for mobile, puzzle-styled games in medical education on university level

• Serious Games Society

  We are member of the Serious Games Society.

• WEKIT - Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training

  Wearable TEL platform enhances human abilities to acquire procedural knowledge by providing a smart system that directs attention to where it is most needed. An extensive audit of industry procedures, policies and participatory design methods will define the main facets of the platform. User test cycles will refine prototypes and deliverables. Existing wearable smart devices and sensors will be tailored to provide an innovative solution for content delivery and measurement of user performance. Comparative tests, stakeholders’ review and leading the IEEE ARLEM group will secure high-standard academic and industrial outputs.

Web Science

• Algorithms on Complex Dynamic Networks

  Social Network Analysis on Dynamic Digital Networks

• las2peer

  Open Source P2P-based Community Service Platform

• MediaBase - Collecting, Analysing and Visualizing Large Collections of Social Software Artifacts

  A MediaBase is a large collection of Social Software artifacts collected by special purpose crawling software (perl scripts) managed in a relational database under a common schema and a set of analysis and visualization tools with web front-ends.

• Requirements Bazaar

  Requirements Bazaar allows users to discuss innovative ideas so that developers can focus on features that really matter.

Internet Information Systems & Community Hosting

• Bamiyan Valley Development Community

  The joint Community of Bamiyan Development aims at bringing together experts from diverse disciplines in the area of preservation of the Bamiyan site in Afghanistan. We attempt to bridge the gaps between different generations, disciplines and cultures on a global scale.

• Cluster of Excellence Internet of Production

  As the basis for the transfer of Aachen production technology into the age of the fourth industrial revolution, the next important milestone for the further creation of application-oriented and innovative solutions in the field of production technology is now on the agenda of the new Cluster. The IoP offers real-time, secure information availability of all relevant data at any time, at any place and is regarded as the core of industry 4.0. In this way, the IoP paves the way for a new era of production.

• i* Wiki

  i* is a goal-oriented modeling language developed by Eric Yu from the University of Toronto. The i* Wiki is intended to enable collaborative work on i* and related topics.

• SunSITE Central Europe

  The SunSITE project at RWTH Aachen University started 1995 as a hosting system for open software and content. Today the SunSITE contains also information about science, culture and virtual communities. And we still run www and ftp servers giving access to the SunSITE Software Archive.

Semantic Web Technology

• Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare (SMITH)

  The aim within the scope of SMITH is the development of an innovative structure for cross-institutional connectivity and exchange of healthcare and research data between sites and beyond the consortium.

Big Data & Model Management

• ConceptBase

  A deductive object manager for meta databases

• Data Lake

• Dataspace Framework

  Enabling integrated access to structured and unstructured data

• HUMIT

  Human-zentrierte Unterstützung inkrementell-interaktiver Datenintegration am Beispiel von Hochdurchsatzprozessen in den Life Sciences

• Model Management

  Working Group Model Management

• prepCDCA

  Bedarfsanalyse und Entwicklung eines Vorgehensmodells zur Integration und Verwendung heterogener Bild-, Labor- und Textdaten für die Diagnoseunterstützung am Beispiel der Herzinsuffizienz und des Mammakarzinoms.

Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Autonome, personenbezogene Organisation des Straßenverkehrs und digitale Logistik (APEROL)

• Ford RWTH Alliance

  Informatik 5 is involved in the Ford RWTH Alliance program with two subprojects.

FAIR Data and Distributed Analytics

• Collaboration On Rare Diseases (CORD)

• FAIRplus

  The FAIRplus project aims to develop tools and guidelines for making life science data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The project has 22 partners from academia and industry.

• Polypharmazie, Arzneimittelwechselwirkungen, Risiken (POLAR)