About
The Institute for Information Systems was founded in 2006 at the University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland as a fusion of the previous Institute of Applied Business Administration in Basel and the Competence Centre in Information Systems in Olten. Today, the institute employs over 50 persons, most of them being researchers who deal with problems in business, industry, and public administration.
The institute provides education, consultancy services, research and development at the interface of IT and business. Main research areas are e-business, e-government, e-learning, information and knowledge management as well as IT management and system engineering including simulation and optimization, and artificial intelligence applications.
The institute has extensive experience in independent and joint research projects supported by public funding provided by Swiss institutions and the European Community. Research projects deal, for instance, with information and knowledge management, with the improvement of business processes, and with the optimization in logistics and production. Various recent projects were related to Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. Besides that the institute offers bachelor and master studies in information systems as well as certificates and diplomas of advanced studies.
AREAS OF ACTIVITIES
Manufacturing and ProductionBuildingsCircular EconomyDigital, AI/Data/RoboticsPhotonics & Quantum Technology
Dest. 2: Achieving technological leadership for Europe's open strategic autonomy in raw materials, chemicals and innovative materials
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-31: Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) (IA)
Dest. 1: Achieving global leadership in climate-neutral, circular and digitised industrial and digital value chains
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-02: Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-11: Enhanced logistics and operations of construction sites (IA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-21: Demonstrators for clusters of social circular enterprises (IA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-32: Green and resilient flexible production processes (Processes4Planet partnership) (IA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-38: Synergies and mutual learning with national and regional initiatives in Europe on Industrial decarbonisation (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel partnerships) (CSA)
Dest. 4: Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02: Quantum Computing – complementing the quantum computing FPAs with the development of a technology agnostic software stack (RIA)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-03: International cooperation: joint research and development with the Republic of Korea (RIA)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07: Robust and trustworthy GenerativeAI for Robotics and industrial automation (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics & Made in Europe Partnerships)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-09: Challenge-Driven GenAI4EU Booster (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04: Assessment methodologies for General Purpose AI capabilities and risks (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-05: Soft Robotics for Advanced physical capabilities (IA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07: Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI: Advancing GenAI4EU (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-DIGITAL-61: AI Foundation models in science (RIA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-DIGITAL-62: Facilitated cooperation for AI in Science (CSA)
Dest. 6: Digital and industrial technologies driving human-centric innovation
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15: GenAI4EU: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds: Advanced technologies for better performance and hyper personalised and immersive experience (IA) (AI/Data/Robotics & Virtual Worlds Partnerships)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-16: Drive the evolution of the internet towards open and interoperable Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds: building blocks in priority areas (RIA) (Virtual Worlds Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-18: GenAI4EU central Hub (CSA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-61: Standardisation landscape analyses tool (CSA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-62: Artificial Intelligence for knowledge valorisation (CSA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-63: Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions (CSA)HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-65: Network of Industry 5.0 system innovation hubs in connected Regional Innovation Valleys (IA)HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-HUMAN-08: GenAI for Africa (RIA)
VALUE CHAIN
Design / R&D / EngineeringTesting & AnalysisService / Maintenance / SupplyOther
Dest. 3: Developing an agile and secure single market and infrastructure for data-services and trustworthy artificial intelligence services
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08: Large-scale pilots for supply end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities for Telco Edge Cloud deployments, [...] (3C networks) (RIA)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10: Roadmap for next generation computing technologies from IoT device level to edge to cloud to HPC (CSA)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11: Open Internet Stack: development of technological commons/open-source 3C building blocks (RIA)HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13: Fostering Innovative and Compliant Data Ecosystems (IA) (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-02: Empowering AI/generative AI along the Cognitive Computing continuum (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-03: Software Engineering for AI and generative AI (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)