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The State Graduated Center Ki Heilbronn is said to be an innovative university policy real laboratory for the top forces of tomorrow. A memorandum of understanding was signed for this. With the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the country and the three participating universities (leadership) and the establishment of a future -oriented state degree center Ki Heilbronn (LGZ) have officially launched. With the LGZ we set up an innovative university policy real laboratory for the top forces of tomorrow, said Minister of Science. We create a more flexible framework for experimentation to try out and establish new formats in the formation of top promoving in AI-related future fields, in recruitment and cooperation between science, industry and start-ups. This is a great opportunity for the country. Zentrum bundles expertise of the three leading AI state universities Prime Minister added: In times of great transformations and existential crises, this special foundation strengthens our innovation landscape with emphasis. Our innovation agenda and our settlement policy set an important impulse with the new state degree center. With projects such as LGZ, we can ensure our excellence and our wealth in international competition. The LGZ bundles the expertise of the three leading AI strong state universities at the Heilbronn location. It combines research and scientific promotion at the highest level in AI-related future fields such as chip design, robotics and cyber security in a new way. The concept is characterized by an innovative, flexible and multidisciplinary doctoral program at the interface between computer science, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. We want to win international talents and top professors for these future fields and for the location so that they can advance research and application in a dynamically growing innovation environment, explained Minister Olschowski. The center is unique nationwide The LGZ is unique in this form nationwide. A joint establishment of the three carrier universities Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Stuttgart and Tubingen and organizationally will be set up as an external location of the leading kit in Heilbronn. In order to fully exploit the potential of artificial intelligence, we need talented young people from all over the world who bring in new perspectives and drive ideas, said Professor Oliver Kraft, Vice President Research at KIT. If we want to stay internationally at the top in science and business, we have to offer the smartest heads excellent learning and working conditions. Our educational mandate is a central part of our social contract: research creates knowledge- our graduates create impact. The LGZ stands for that. Heilbronn offers unique conditions with its rapidly growing innovation ecosystem and the educational campus, Heilbronn offers unique conditions for the new promotion program of the LGZ. In the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), all partners commit themselves to common goals and the other milestones to build the LGZ until the end of 2028. The agreement with the three top universities is a strong signal and offers a very good basis for providing the LGZ quickly in the next few months, said Science Minister Petra Olschowski. The LGZ is accompanied by a top-class and internationally occupied scientific-strategic advisory board. There will be ten professorships in full operation. The structure will be gradually carried out; The appointment of the founding directorate is scheduled to start this year. In the final expansion from 2029, the state will promote the LGZ with up to 30 million euros annually. Currently, 1.4 million euros are planned for 2025 and eleven million euros for 2026. In addition to the ten professors - 57 doctoral students and 19 postdoctoral students will be employed in the various disciplines in the different disciplines at the graduate center. The LGZ is another important component to anchor the topic of AI in its entire width here in the country, said Professor Dr. Dr. H.C. (Doshisha) Karla Pollmann, Rector of the University of Tubingen. This not only promotes research in this key technology, but also in an ideal environment for application and implementation. With this facility we create the best conditions for training Von highly qualified specialists and scientists from tomorrow and thus make a future-oriented contribution to the science and business location of Baden-Wurttemberg. The rector of the University of Stuttgart, Professor Peter Middendorf, added: The LGZ creates outstanding conditions for the training of our young scientists in applied artificial intelligence. With our partners of KIT and University of Tubingen, it enables to make contributions to the important topics of the future at the Heilbronn campus. Not only, but not only in partnership in a strengthened innovation ecosystem, we will convert our strong AI basic research into the application. Important agreements of the Memorandum of Understanding Getting international top professors as well as a doctorate in doctoral students at the highest level of strong cooperation between science, business and civil society Agile, digital and flexible promotion program Fast track options for the bachelors Bachelor Support of the doctoral project. Scientific-strategic advisory board
