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New location for the Center for Advanced Internet Studies. Digitisation research in Bochum’s technology quarter

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) will move into a building with 1,500 square metres of office space at Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a in Bochum as sole tenant in October 2023. The research institute will continue its digitisation research at the modernised location.

28. September 2023

The decision to move to the new location in Konrad-Zuse-Straße in the Technology Quarter is primarily the result of the large growth in personnel at the interdisciplinary research institute. Since 2021, CAIS, which receives long-term funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, will be expanded into the Institute for Digitisation Research. “For digitisation research, the namesake of Konrad-Zuse-Straße as a pioneer for computer development and digitisation is particularly fitting” explained Tim Pfenner, commercial director of CAIS.

Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a
New location for the CAIS (Photo: Cubion)

From Universitätsstraße to the Technology Quarter

After the suitable location was found, the CAIS, in cooperation with the architectural firm Zwei15, extensively remodelled the building according to the concept of “Activity-Based Working”. In the process, insights from the pandemic and the increased use of home offices were taken into account.

In the Technology Quarter, the CAIS is located in the direct vicinity of other academic institutions, such as the Ruhr University Bochum, the Bochum University of Applied Sciences and the Centre for IT Security. “The modernised premises offer our researchers excellent working conditions. We are pleased to be able to welcome our international guests appropriately. Bochum thus presents itself as a place for excellent digitisation research,” says the new CAIS director Prof. Christiane Eilders.

New address: Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a (Photo: Mike Zabel)

Über das Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)

Das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen fördert das Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum seit April 2021 langfristig als zentrales Institut für Digitalisierungsforschung. Durch evidenzbasierte Lösungsvorschläge trägt das CAIS zur Gestaltung des digitalen Wandels im Interesse der Menschen bei. Gegründet wurde das CAIS als Wissenschaftskolleg Anfang 2017 und vergibt seitdem Fellowships an nationale und internationale Gastwissenschaftler:innen im Bereich der Digitalisierungsforschung. Das erste Forschungsprogramm „Digitale demokratische Innovationen“ ist im Oktober 2021 gestartet, seit Mitte 2022 läuft das zweite Forschungsprogramm „Bildungstechnologien und Künstlicher Intelligenz“. Im April 2024 folgt das dritte Forschungsprogramm zum Thema „Design vertrauenswürdiger Künstlicher Intelligenz“. Die Forschungsprogramme verzahnen die Fächerwelten von Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften bis zur Informatik und erproben Forschungsergebnisse in der Praxis. Weitere Informationen über das CAIS finden Sie unter www.cais-research.de.

New Adress
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH
Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a
44801 Bochum

Press Contact

Dr. Esther Laukötter
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
Phone: 015785001399
E-Mail: Esther.Laukoetter@cais-research.de

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