Digital transformation is changing the university and research sector significantly. For researchers, technical innovations hold the potential to shape their work more efficiently and effectively. But beyond that, they harbor new opportunities. Many areas of TU Dresden support such projects and work together to further elaborate them. The activities of the following institutions and initiatives are exemplary in this regard:

Center for Scalable Data Analayitcs and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI)

ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig (àhttps://scads.ai) is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Free State of Saxony as one of the national AI centers. Additional AI chairs and departments will reinforce AI research at each of the locations. In basic research on AI methods, the Center strives to close the gap between the efficient use of mass data, knowledge management and advanced AI methods. In addition to pioneering methods of machine learning and artificial intelligence, research focuses on trust, privacy protection, transparency, minority protection and traceability of AI-driven decisions.

National High-Performance Computing (NHR)

The Center for Information Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH) (àhttps://tu-dresden.de/zih) is one of the nine National High-Performance Computing (NHR) centers (à https://tu-dresden.de/zih/hochleistungsrechnen/nhr-center) in the NHR network, established in 2021. As such, the ZIH operates high-performance computers and offers coordinated consultation on the methodological expertise offered by high-performance computing in science. The aim is to be able to provide researchers at German universities the computing power required for their projects and to strengthen their skills in this area so that they can use this resource most effectively.

Service Center Research Data (FDM)

In 2017, TU Dresden collaborated with the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) to set up the Service Center Research Data (àhttps://tu-dresden.de/forschung-transfer/services-fuer-forschende/kontaktstelle-forschungsdaten). The cross-organizational collaboration between staff from the SLUB and the ZIH allows for interdisciplinary services in the field of research data management.  The Service Center Research Data provides advisory services for professionally handling research data to each and every researcher at TU Dresden. In fall 2021, a new employee joined the team to offer advice to DRESDEN-concept member institutions on issues concerning research data management.

Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)

The SLUB (à https://www.slub-dresden.de) is one of the leading research libraries in Germany and a key partner for TU Dresden’s information structure. The library was able to acquire comprehensive third-party funded projects in particular in the areas of digitalization as well as infrastructure and software development, making it a crucial center for innovation and coordination in the European library sector.

German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

In November 2018, the federal and state governments resolved to establish the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) (à https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/newsportal/news/nationale-forschungsdateninfrastruktur-tud-nimmt-schluesselrolle-ein). NFDI strives to systematically exploit and secure data from science and research, as well as to make it accessible and network it internationally. TU Dresden plays an important role in this, and is involved with 14 of 27 currently funded NFDI consortia (as of November 2022). It also heads NFDI4Earth and Base4NFDI. Since 2021, TU Dresden has been a member of the non-profit Association German National Research Data Infrastructure, where it is represented by the CDIO.