Shaping digital transformation together!

Our university is actively driving forward digital transformation. With our clear digital strategy, we are creating innovative learning environments across our faculties, optimising administrative processes and strengthening our position as pioneers in research and teaching. Find out more about how we are shaping the digital future of our university.

Current digitalization news

JUPITER selects first AI projects

Only ten teams nationwide will receive exclusive access to the European exascale supercomputer. With the HoMe project, AI research in Bonn is sending a strong signal in the fields of vision, robotics, and generative AI.

RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting

Extreme weather events such as heavy rain and flooding pose growing challenges for early warning systems worldwide. Researchers at the University Bonn, the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence have developed RiverMamba, a new AI model that can predict river discharges and flood risks more accurately than previous methods. The research paper has been accepted for NeurIPS 2025 – a sign of scientific excellence in Bonn-based research. RiverMamba thus makes an important contribution to climate adaptation and risk prevention – topics that are receiving special attention worldwide, particularly around UN World Tsunami Awareness Day on November 5th.

Chemical language models don't need to understand chemistry

Language models are now also being used in the natural sciences. In chemistry, they are employed, for instance, to predict new biologically active compounds. Chemical language models (CLMs) must be extensively trained. However, they do not necessarily acquire knowledge of biochemical relationships during training. Instead, they draw conclusions based on similarities and statistical correlations, as a recent study by the University of Bonn demonstrates. The results have now been published in the journal Patterns.

A New Colleague Named AI?

Artificial intelligence has become a common presence within the University's central administration. Two years after the launch of an AI initiative for central administration employees, we sit down for an update with Holger Impekoven, who heads the Services field of operation and serves as Vice Provost for the University of Bonn. He is joined by Michael Prill, Digitalization of Administrative Processes Program (PDaP) Lead, and Nicola Thiele, Head of Human Resource Development, Organizational Development and Health Management in the employee podcast “Lass mal hören.” We haven’t quite reached the point where people are talking about “a new colleague named AI.” The trio nevertheless provides plenty of fascinating information about the AI tools they use in their private and professional lives, the work of the Communities of Practice, how the training sessions have been received, why AI is here to stay, and what lies ahead.

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Our IT and digitalization units

Vice Rectorate for Digitalization and Information Management

Digitalization forms an integral part of the University of Bonn’s overall strategy.

The Vice Rectorat is responsible for the University’s digitalization process in her capacity as a member of the University management.

about ViCe Rectorate

Digital Science Center (DiCe)

The Digital Science Center is responsible for developing, advancing, and implementing a comprehensive digital strategy at the University of Bonn. DiCe coordinates activities within the university, identifies synergies, and serves as a network and point of contact for all stakeholders.

about DiCe

Digitalization management in the faculties

The development of DiCe as a strategic center is accompanied by parallel structural development processes within the faculties. Professional digitalization managers in the faculty administrations play a key role in this process and act as the interface to DiCe.

about digitalization management

University IT and Data Center

As the central IT service provider at the University of Bonn, the University IT and Data Center operates a range of central IT services used in research, teaching and learning, and provides University members with a range of IT support services.

about University IT and Data Center

The Digitalization of Administrative Processes Program (PDaP)

The Administrative Process Digitization Program bundles, manages, and coordinates various programs and projects that are set up as part of the University of Bonn's digital strategy in the area of administrative process digitization.

about PDaP

Department 2 —
IT and Computing Services

Department 2 provides state-of-the-art hardware and the latest software for our university administration. It also operates administrative IT services.

about Departement 2

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“For me, digitalization means the opportunity to gain new insights using new methods and to share them. In research, it opens up new horizons; in teaching, it enables encounters and exchanges even across continents. That inspires me every day anew.”

Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz
Vice Rector for Digitalization and Information Management

Steps toward our digital transformation

All activities, measures, and objectives are detailed in the digital strategy and are continuously developed in an ongoing process.
We are tackling the challenges of digital transformation in seven areas:

Research and teaching
Knowledge transfer and society
Legal framework and security
Infrastructure
Organizational structure
Digital skills
New spaces

to the Digital Strategy

Operational support services

High performance computing

The high-performance computing infrastructure at the University of Bonn is jointly planned and managed by our two HPC-related units: the University IT and Data Center (HPC@HRZ) team and the High Performance Computing and Analytics Lab (HPC/A-Lab).

Research data management

Professional research data management (RDM) is becoming increasingly important in all disciplines as a result of the digitization of science. The Research Data Service Center supports RDM throughout the entire research process.

Open access

Open Access is strategically shaped at the University of Bonn by the Open Access Service Center - through guidelines, cooperation, and targeted funding measures. They also advise university members on all questions relating to Open Access and assist with various publication projects.

Digitally aided teaching

As digital forms and channels of communication are a natural part of the media culture of the modern knowledge society, teaching and studying at the University of Bonn are supplemented by digital elements.

AI in research, teaching and administration

Our AI think tank addresses the increasing relevance of AI methods in all scientific fields and continuously develops proposals for strategic measures.

To implement these measures, the University of Bonn plans to establish a "Center for AI Assisted Research & Education "(CAIRE).

Service portal for employees

The service portal displays information and services from individual organizational units. It is structured by topic so that users without knowledge of the structure and organization can quickly and easily find the information they need.

Get in touch with DiCe

DiCe-Coordinator Dr. Benjamin Seyfferth +49 228 73 5450
DiCe-Coordinator Carolin Müller +49 228 73 9499

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