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Hasso Plattner Institute

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For the design thinking institute at Stanford University in the United States, seeHasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Hasso Plattner Institute
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH
MottoDesign IT. Create Knowledge.
Typeprivately financed university institute
Established1998
DirectorTobias Friedrich,Ralf Herbrich,Marcus Kölling
Total staff
389
Students1,000
Location
Potsdam
,
Germany

52°23′38″N 13°8′1″E
AffiliationsUniversity of Potsdam
Websitehttps://hpi.de/

TheHasso Plattner Institute for Digital EngineeringgGmbH(‹See Tfd›German:Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH;HPI) is an information technology non-profit company affiliated with theUniversity of PotsdaminPotsdam,Brandenburg,northeasternGermany.

The teaching and research of HPI are focused on "IT-Systems Engineering". HPI was founded in 1998, and is the first, and as of 2018, the only entirely privately funded faculty[1]inGermany.It is financed entirely through private funds donated by billionaireHasso Plattner,[2]who co-founded the software companySAP SE,and is currently the chairman of SAP's supervisory board. From 2004 to 2023 the institute was headed byChristoph Meinel.On April 1, 2023, a team consisting of Tobias Friedrich, Marcus Kölling and Ralf Herbrich took over the management of the institute.[3]

Lecture halls (old picture without main building in the background)
Campus panorama view
A-B-C building (former main building)

History

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The HPI was founded in October 1998 as apublic–private partnership.[4]The private partner is the Hasso Plattner Foundation, which is the administrative body responsible for the HPI and its only corporate member. The foundation's legal status is that of aGmbH,a limited-liability company according to German law. As the public part of the partnership, the State of Brandenburg provided the estate where several multi-storey buildings were built to form a nice campus. Hasso Plattner declared to provide at least 200 million Euros for the HPI within the first 20 years.[5]He is also actively involved as a lecturer and head of the chair on Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts,[6]where the in-memory technology was developed. In 2004, he received his honorary professorship from the University of Potsdam.

Since 2007, the HPI maintains a particularly close cooperation with theHasso Plattner Institute of Design,part ofStanford University's School of Engineering. In addition to the exchange of students and scientists, an annual workshop onDesign Thinkingis held in Germany. German companies are simultaneously involved in joint international development projects between Potsdam andPalo Altoaimed at simplifying the implementation of such projects on both sides of the Atlantic with the help of tele-teaching technology.[citation needed]

Criticism

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In 2024 HPI was heavily criticized forUnion bustingagainst the founding activities of aWorks council.Posters for workers' assemblies has been removed and about €200,000 been paid to the law firm Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law specialized for anti-union measurements. As a result, the institute founded an alternative committee which has been criticized for being a "fake council" only existing to bypass the right to organize.[7][8]The association "aktion./. arbeitsunrecht", which campaigns against labor injustice and for more democracy in business and industry, considers the actions of the Hasso Plattner Institute to be criminal within the meaning of § 119 of the Works Constitution Act. The law firm Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law had also already attracted attention through union busting atFlink[9][10]in Berlin as well as at the car rental companySixt[11]and the beverage supplier Flaschenpost.[12]A spokesperson for the legal protection department of theGerman Trade Union Confederationjudged the HPI's actions to be "clearly unlawful".[13]The events were also discussed in the Brandenburg state parliament at the request of theLeft Party.[14]TheLeft Party,theSPDandthe Greenstook a clear stance in support of setting up a works council and againstUnion busting.The far right wing partyAfDstrongly questionedCorrectiv's account and spoke out in favor of academic freedom.[15][16][17]At the beginning of April 2024, HPI employees voted with a majority of 68% for the establishment of the Institute Council.[18]

Mr. Net:interactive sculpture designed by the Spanish artistJaume Plensa

openHPI

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In 2012, based on HPI's long lasting tele-TASK[19]research project,openHPI[20]has started to work. openHPI is an Internet educational platform for offering massive open online courses (MOOCs), which is embedded in a global social network. It offers free interactive online courses about different topics in information technology. Participants can become familiar with basic topics ofcomputer science,and IT systems engineering as well as with advanced current research topics in IT. They also have the ability to discuss issues and to develop solutions in a virtual community with participants from around the globe.[21]

Rankings and awards

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The Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) is an independent private non-profit organization, founded by theGerman Rectors' Conferenceand theBertelsmann Foundation.[22]According to its university ranking in 2020, HPI's Bachelor's and Master's programs are among the four best-ranked computer science programs in the German-speaking countries with the Bachelor's program valued highest in 18 out of 28 analyzed categories and among the best in five additional categories.[23][24]

In 2012, HPI and SAP received the German Innovation Prize (Deutscher Innovationspreis), a prize awarded byAccenture,EnBW,EvonikandWirtschaftswoche,for the development of the in-memory databaseSAP HANA.[25]

References

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  1. ^Mallwitz, Gudrun (4 April 2017)."Bundesweit erste privat finanzierte Fakultät an Uni".Berliner Morgenpost(in German).Archivedfrom the original on 29 June 2019.Retrieved29 June2019.
  2. ^roinsider (24 July 2018)."German billionaire makes biggest donation to a Romanian university in 30 years".Romania Insider.Retrieved27 January2023.
  3. ^"Hasso-Plattner-Institut verabschiedet langjährigen Direktor Christoph Meinel".hpi.de(in German).Retrieved30 May2024.
  4. ^"Organization".Hasso Plattner Institute.Retrieved5 October2019....founded in October 1998 as part of a public-private partnership...
  5. ^Wilkens, Andreas (5 November 2004)."Hasso-Plattner-Institut soll" Weltklasse-Niveau "erreichen".heise online.Archivedfrom the original on 4 September 2018.Retrieved4 September2018.
  6. ^"Founder Hasso Plattner".Hasso Plattner Institute.Retrieved5 October2019.Plattner not only finances HPI, as head of the 'Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts' department...
  7. ^Dowideit, Anette (1 March 2024)."Hasso-Plattner-Institut verhindert Betriebsrat – und lässt sich das über 200.000 Euro kosten"[Hasso-Plathner-Institute prevents working council and let it cost them more than €200,000].correctiv.org(in German).Retrieved13 March2024.
  8. ^"Für mehr als 200.000 Euro: Potsdamer Hasso-Plattner-Institut verhindert Betriebsrat".Der Tagesspiegel Online(in German).ISSN1865-2263.Retrieved13 March2024.
  9. ^"Handelsblatt".handelsblatt.Retrieved28 April2024.
  10. ^"Kehrtwende vor dem Berliner Arbeitsgericht: Vorerst kein Betriebsrat beim Lieferdienst Flink".Der Tagesspiegel Online(in German).ISSN1865-2263.Retrieved28 April2024.
  11. ^Wyputta, Andreas (24 November 2021)."Sixt verhindert Betriebsrat: Schluss mit lustig".Die Tageszeitung: taz(in German).ISSN0931-9085.Retrieved28 April2024.
  12. ^Pressemitteilung (4 March 2024)."Hasso-Plattner-Institut: Union Busting durch Pseudo-Betriebsrat. Wann ermittelt die Staatsanwaltschaft?".arbeitsunrecht in deutschland(in German).Retrieved20 April2024.
  13. ^Lelek, Christian."Vorwürfe gegen Hasso Plattner Institut: Betriebsrat verhindert?".nd-aktuell.de(in German).Retrieved20 April2024.
  14. ^Vandre, Isabelle (26 March 2024)."Die Linksfraktion macht Verhinderung des Betriebsrates am Hasso-Plattner-Institut im Landtag zum Thema".Die Linke Fraktion im Landtag Brandenburg(in German).Retrieved20 April2024.
  15. ^"104. Sitzung des Brandenburger Landtags".rbb-online.de(in German). 21 March 2024.Retrieved20 April2024.
  16. ^Damus, Sahra (21 March 2024)."Rede im Landtag: Mitbestimmung absichern - keine Ausnahme für das Hasso-Plattner-Institut!".Fraktion BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN im Brandenburger Landtag(in German).Retrieved20 April2024.
  17. ^Oeynhausen, Daniela.Correctiv und Linke nehmen Plattner-Institut ins Visier – wir verteidigen die Wissenschaftsfreiheit!(in German).Retrieved20 April2024– via youtube.
  18. ^"HPI staff votes for Institute Council".hpi.de.12 April 2024.
  19. ^HPI Internet Lecture Video Archive
  20. ^openHPI: The MOOC platform of the HPI
  21. ^Willems, Christian; Jasper, Johannes; Meinel, Christoph (26 August 2013)."Introducing hands-on experience to a Massive Open Online Course on openHPI".Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE).pp. 307–313.doi:10.1109/TALE.2013.6654451.ISBN978-1-4673-6355-6.S2CID22137372.
  22. ^"Funding of the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE)".
  23. ^"HPI in the CHE ranking".Hasso Plattner Institute.Archived fromthe originalon 26 May 2022.Retrieved5 October2019.
  24. ^"CHE 2020 ranking for computer science".Retrieved16 November2020.
  25. ^Behme, Henning (17 March 2012)."SAP und HPI erhalten Deutschen Innovationspreis 2012".heise online.Archivedfrom the original on 29 June 2019.Retrieved29 June2019.

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  1. ^Oeynhausen, Daniela."Correctiv und Linke nehmen Plattner-Institut ins Visier – wir verteidigen die Wissenschaftsfreiheit!".
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