Hochschule Karlsruhe Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Sciences
Hochschule Karlsruhe Hochschule Karlsruhe - University of Applied Sciences

Competence Center KARL - Artificial Intelligence for Work and Learning in the Karlsruhe Region

Objective

The vision of the Competence Center KARL is to create a neutral and established contact point in the Karlsruhe region, which supports local companies and their employees in all questions concerning AI-supported information work and learning systems (AI-ALS). The competence center will be able to holistically accompany companies of all sizes in their projects and questions regarding AI topics, to sensitize them to the topics, to support them in the implementation of (pilot) projects and to network them with the relevant experts.

Against this background, the aim of the competence center KARL is to design rules, handouts and presentable concepts of AI-ALS and to test them in practical use in order to combine the advantages of human and artificial intelligence. For this purpose, KARL will connect regional academic and practice partners with excellent competence and experience in the field of human-centered, transparent and learning-friendly AI-ALS via a platform. A digital platform links real and virtual places of experiencing, trying out and learning pioneering solutions with added value potential. The results, methods, training data and practical examples will be made available on an online platform for interested companies.

Procedure

The planned AI-ALS will be developed, tested, validated and evaluated with regard to their economic and social benefits in close cooperation between the participating research organizations and the practice partners. Transferable principles will be derived from the findings, illustrative demonstrators for use cases will be built, and examples of good practice will be identified.

To this end, KARL focuses on four application domains (AD) in which the Karlsruhe region has proven economic and technological strengths: (1) mobility and autonomous driving, (2) knowledge-intensive services and ICT systems, (3) manufacturing, and (4) the education sector. In these, the application of AI systems is already well advanced or is expected to have a strong impact on future information work and learning systems. The competence center will focus on the following five design fields with regard to AI solutions: (1) introduction processes, method selection, potential assessment and acceptance, (2) transparency, traceability and explainability, (3) qualification, competence development and learning through and for AI, (4) data quality, security and protection in AI systems and (5) ethical and legal issues.

Project duration

  • April 2021 to March 2025

Project Consortium

Research partners

  • Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
    • ILIN (Institute for Learning and Innovation in Networks; project coordination)
    • ICe (Intelligent Computing in Education)
    • IIIE (Intelligent Interaction & Immersive Experience)
  • Fraunhofer
    • IOSB (Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation)
    • ISI (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research)
  • KIT
    • ifab (Institute for Applied Work Science and Industrial Organization)
    • wbk (Institute for Production Technology)
  • FZI (Research Center for Computer Science)

Network partners

  • CyberForum

Practice partner

  • ADAC, Adesso, ArtiMinds, BLANC & FISCHER Corporate Services, Datalyxt, EDI, INIT, Kinemic, Optimum, SICK

Collaborators

  • Prof. Dr. Steffen Kinkel
  • Dennis Richter
  • Tobias Kopp
  • Robin Weitemeyer

Project website

https://kompetenzzentrum-karl.de/

This Research and Development Project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the program "Future of Value Creation - Research on Manufacturing, Services and Information Work" (funding code: 02L19C250) and supervised by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the author.

Contact

Projektleiter
Prof. Dr. Steffen Kinkel

Phone: +49 (0)721 925-2915
Fax: +49 (0)721 925-2965
steffen.kinkelspam prevention@h-ka.de

Geb. E, Raum 105
Moltkestraße 30
76133 Karlsruhe