Aarhus University Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics (DIGIT)
Overview
The Aarhus University Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics (DIGIT) works to strengthen Aarhus University's position within the area of digitalization. DIGIT is one of Aarhus University’s strategic research centers working on developing solutions to the World’s Grand Challenges. The main disruptions happening to societies all over the world is driven by new innovations based on novel IT-based solutions. It is important to help the private and public sectors to conduct business in the most optimal way by developing relevant digital solutions.
The center makes use of the unique opportunities that exist in the interaction between classical science, sector-oriented research and engineering activities. Through collaborations on joint research and innovation projects, we focus on developing research-based technologies and solutions to societal challenges, and actively invite industrial partners and the business sector, both locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to assure impact for the research projects.
As DIGIT is an initiative launched by Aarhus University, it operates under the Danish Act on Universities, i.e. government-funded within the public administration under the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation. The centre is a non-for-profit entity, funded by both internal and external funding entities. We are located at the Aarhus University Katrinebjerg Campus, with geographical proximity to the university's other programs in IT, information and media sciences. The area we live in is the core of Denmark's strongest IT environment with a network of over 100 companies, business promoters and approved technological institutes.
Vision: to carry out excellent cross-disciplinary research to provide a recognized contribution to the worldwide digital transformation of society to the benefit of mankind.
Mission: to strengthen Aarhus University's position in the general area of digitalization, both nationally as well as internationally.
DIGIT’s Research Activities: Big Data Analysis, Block chain, Cyber-Security, Digital Business Development, Internet of Things, Science and Engineering of Machine Intelligence, Smart products with focus on Cyber-Physical Systems. Our research is initially organized across these research themes for each of which we will achieve excellence. We are integrating world class fundamental and applied research activities within these digital disciplines across Business, Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering. In order to succeed, DIGIT is strongly committed to closely cooperate with relevant industrial and public partners.
DIGIT’s support to SMEs:
It is a regional priority to increase locals SMEs’s digital capacity, more specifically the ones in the manufacturing, healthcare, energy and agricultural areas. DIGIT is engaged in different collaborations with local SMEs, supporting their innovation, research and development activities. Examples to be mentioned here are: access to powerful computers and computer systems, contacts to highly specialized software developers, programmers and senior experts in the field (machine learning, IoT, AI, security, cyber physical systems, and so on), and cross-disciplinary collaboration with other departments working with digitalization challenges, like business development, mathematics and computer science. Finally, DIGIT can introduce and facilitate access to SMEs to a wide range of lab space and facilities at the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University like ICE-lab, Robotics-lab and others. Visit http://eng.au.dk/en/research/laboratory-facilities/ for further information.
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