Using digitalization in a people-centric way
Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) act as drivers of economic and civic transformation. They make new, networked value creation models possible and support the development of a sustainable circular economy. As the nucleus of the “Industry 4.0” brand, acatech has been working for years on the effects of the fourth industrial revolution on the world of work and life, in which all players and factors – people and machines, mobility, logistics and production – are networked with each other through data evaluation and use. This is based on the fields of action and topics identified in the High-Tech Strategy 2025 and the German government’s strategy for the future, as well as other programs such as the European Agenda for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe.
Platform Learning Systems – Shaping artificial intelligence for people and society
to shape the functioning and areas of application of artificial intelligence in the interests of people and society: This is what 200 experts from science, business and society are working on in the Learning Systems Platform. Seven interdisciplinary and cross-industry working groups are using the platform to make fields of application and all factors relating to learning systems visible – technological, legal, ethical, security-related and social. The aim is to work out the benefits of learning systems and make them accessible in dialog with science, business, society and politics.
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Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board
As a strategic and independent body, the Industry 4.0 Research Advisory Board supports the Industry 4.0 platform. It evaluates Industry 4.0 developments, provides new impetus, defines research and development needs and options for action. The Research Advisory Board currently includes 31 representatives from business and industry who contribute their interdisciplinary expertise to strengthen the German innovation system and value creation. The ReCoRD project focuses on achieving the overarching strategic goals of sustainability, resilience, interoperability and technological sovereignty through Industry 4.0.
AdWise – holistic engineering for the tasks of tomorrow
Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly shaping technical systems and making products, services and production systems more multidimensional and networked. In order to do justice to this, a scientifically sound strategy is needed that promotes the development of new engineering expertise in Germany and involves all relevant specialist disciplines. AdWise pursues the goal of networking players from the mechanical and plant engineering, aerospace, automotive, electrical and medical technology industries and anchoring Advanced System Engineering (ASE) as a development system in the innovation system.
RISC-V – open standard for microprocessors expands strategic sovereignty
The 2020 chip crisis has shown that one-sided dependencies of critical technologies can severely restrict Germany as a location for business and innovation. To avoid this in the future, the open standard RISC-V offers new opportunities in the field of chip development: it is accessible and therefore provides a basis for innovative research projects in particular. It therefore has the potential to promote more competition and independent technology development and thus make the entire semiconductor ecosystem, including chip production, more independent.
acatech President Jan Wörner comments: "Strategic sovereignty also requires the reduction of critical dependencies through access to multiple alternatives - and we have seen how important this is in the chip sector in particular. In addition, the open standard RISC-V offers new opportunities for research and can become the breeding ground for an innovation ecosystem in which developments can mature more quickly into competitive innovations."
"Thanks to the open instruction set architecture, RISC-V offers new possibilities for developing specialized, high-performance microprocessors. Thanks to the open standard, RISC-V also offers new options for research and education and provides new impetus for product development," says RISC-V project manager Christoph Kutter, Fraunhofer Institute for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT.
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