Around 80 guests were invited by NRW’s Minister of Science Ina Brandes and, on behalf of the Ruhr Development Laboratory, by Manfred Bayer, Rector of TU Dortmund University, in the Brauturm of the Dortmunder U.The Ruhr Innovation Laboratory is an outstanding example of how excellence is constantly possible when the old church tower mentality in the Ruhr location is gotten rid of and typical strengths are looked for.– Ina Brandes Science Minister Ina Brandes said: „ The Ruhr Innovation Lab is an exceptional example of how excellence is always possible when the old church
tower mindset in the Ruhr area is conquered and typical strengths are looked for. Consequently, TU Dortmund University and Ruhr University Bochum are applying for the status of a University Consortium of Quality with a university-crossing speculative area for top research study, transfer and social commitment. The difficulties of our time need both such university-crossing cooperations and strong collaborations with the economy to open brand-new research study fields and to make clinical findings rapidly economically functional.”We have come together to comply completely with each other.– Manfred Bayer Rector Teacher. Manfred Bayer emphasized that the Ruhr Innovation Laboratory is not a one-hit-wonder for the application in the excellence competition: „ We have come together to comply completely with each other
. Today’s Future Discussion as an exchange format is a start
, more occasions will follow
— often in Dortmund, sometimes in Bochum, however constantly on the strong foundation of our cohesion and together with our partners.” Bayer himself then contributed an input on the technical conditions and obstacles of the evening’s topic, while Teacher Karola Marky, Head of the Digital Sovereignty Lab at Ruhr University, focused on the individual and our day-to-day behavior in the digital world in her keynote. A dynamic fishbowl discussion was supposed to conclude the night earlier and lead to the get-together, however it „ positively overruned”, as moderator Teacher Christina Elmer put it, since there was so much to say about AI and digital sovereignty– with these individuals: Teacher Karola Marky Professor Alice Kirchheim, TU Dortmund University and head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Product Flow and Logistics IML Teacher Nicole Krämer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Proving Ground Trustworthy Data Science and Security of the University Alliance Ruhr Carla Hustedt, Head of the Digitalized Society Department of the Stiftung
- Mercator Götz Erhardt, Co-moderator of the Initiativkreis Ruhr State Secretary Dirk Günnewig, Ministry of Financing of North Rhine-Westphalia The audience was likewise involved in the discussion round. What were the takeaways from the first joint evening of the Future Dialogue? A remarkable location, lots of promoting discussions and food
- for thought, and not least from the many legitimate arguments of the conversation the „ Swiss Army knife for digital sovereignty”, as mediator Christina Elmer put it: „ It consists of experiments, tolerance for uncertainties and friction, along with digital
literacy, cooperations with research study and the Ruhr Development
Lab”. Götz Erhardt from the Initiativkreis Ruhr has brought the essence of the Ruhr Development Lab to the point as clearly as appropriately: „ More experimentation! “