Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences is the largest institution of its type in the German state of Baden-Württemberg with more than 650 staff members and 7.000 students. It offers degree programs in engineering, economics and computer science on both bachelor and master level. Alongside teaching, research plays a vital role at the university as one of its core competencies. This ranges from joint graduate schools with other universities for more long-term research to direct industry cooperations. It has successfully quadrupled the research activities in recent years to make HsKA one of the most research intensive universities of applied sciences. The Institute for Learning and Innovation in Networks (ILIN) is involved in several national and European projects, including Learning Layers.

Key persons

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Andreas P. Schmidt is professor for enterprise social media and mobile business at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences since March 2012 and has co-founded the Institute for Learning and Innovation in Networks. Before that, he was working at FZI Research Center for Information Technologies, a technology transfer center at KIT with a specific focus on regional SMEs, as a department manager for the knowledge area "Knowledge & Learning" and lecturer at the faculty of computer science at KIT for information integration. He has received his PhD on context-aware support for work-integrated learning from University of Karlsruhe. He has significantly contributed to various European projects over the last ten years. He has been Scientific Coordinator for the FP7 Integrating Project MATURE and was the initiator and key researcher on the knowledge maturing model and has also initiated the open source solution for lightweight competence management based on people tagging (SOBOLEO), and work package leader in the FP7 project MIRROR. He is now work package leader in the FP7 project LAYERS. His research interests include evolutionary perspectives to collaborative knowledge development and modelling, lightweight semantics, and supporting informal learning at the workplace.

He is the Scientific Coordinator of EmployID and manages the work package that is responsible for creating an overall shared conceptual model for identity transformation and its support.

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Prof. Dr. Steffen Kinkel is professor for international management and networked business at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences since September 2012. In parallel, he is a lecturer at Hohenheim University. From July 2004 to August 2012 he was Head of the Competence Centre „Industrial and Service Innovations“ at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe. In 2003 he obtained his PhD in business administration from Stuttgart University with his thesis on „Dynamic location assessment and strategic location controlling“.He has coordinated numerous national and international projects focusing on technical and non-technical innovation and socio-economic evaluation in different technology areas and industries. He was leader of the work packages on “exploitation and new business models” and “socio-economic assessment” in the FP6 Integrated Project SMErobot and of the work package “European firms’ offshoring strategies” for the 2012 EU Competitiveness Report. He has been member of different Expert Groups and Scientific Advisory Boards, e.g. the Steering Committee of the Six Countries Programme (6CP, since 2005) or the Core Team for the development of a new Production Research Programme for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, 2008-2010). His main research interests include socio-economic analysis and technology assessment, innovation management, new business models, scenario building and foresight in different technology areas and industries as well as for innovation and industrial policy. A second strand of interest is global value chain management with a focus on global production and R&D strategies and its economic assessment and strategic controlling.

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Nathanael Kautz studies Education Planning/ Instructional Design and Cognition Science at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He joins EmployID as student apprentice to get some work experience especially in data collection.

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Tobias Kopp joined EmployID and the Institute for Learning and Innovation in Networks (ILIN) in April 2014 after having gained his master degree in Business Information Systems at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences where he studied for the last about six years. During his years of study he contributed in some of the University research projects (such as LAYERS) and began to work as self-employed IT-consultant for medical practioners to improve their IT-related processes. In the context of EmployID he's mainly interested in the evaluation of new concepts and in quantifying their impact.

Organization:  Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences