20 years Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology

Academic teaching and research with an international reputation. Celebration © Photo: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn The impression in connection with the service is free, while the image specified author is mentioned. The Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) celebrated its twentieth anniversary these days. Since 2002, it has uniquely combined excellence in research with internationally renowned teaching in three master's degree programs in computer science. Thus, the b-it qualifies students from all over the world for future-oriented professional fields in the areas of life sciences, media informatics and autonomous systems. With the support of the federal and state governments, an institution with a worldwide reputation has emerged over the past 20 years, which at the same time has an impact on the region with innovative research results and highly qualified graduates. The b-it brings together the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and three Fraunhofer Institutes - the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT and the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI.