Partners
Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH
The Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation (WRS) raises awareness about the qualities of the business location of the city of Stuttgart and the five surrounding counties, assists enterprises in their settling and supports the development of the location through numerous projects and offers. Aiming at supporting one of the most innovative and strongest economic locations in Europe, the WRS also develops new strategies, so as to strengthen sectors of the next generation in the region. The initiative for the regional competence and innovation centers, to which the VDC Fellbach belongs, has been launched in 2000.
Packaging Excellence Center PEC
The Packaging Excellence Center PEC bundles an existing unique concentration of enterprises of the Stuttgart Region in the area of packaging and automation technology. The participating enterprises’ purpose is to identify and use synergies among the different technical fields and to commonly harness scientific knowledge. Moreover, vocational training and joint solutions of capacity problems are to be addressed in the center. PEC and VDC intensively cooperate in terms of content and organization.
Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart
Whether it deals with light-weight construction or the development of quieter and particularly consumption-low and low-emission automobiles, numerical simulation methods for product development and optimization are essential. Science and industry have initiated a new kind of cooperation in this area and founded the Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart (ASCS). The ASCS uses the fast computers of the HLRS of the University of Stuttgart for application-oriented research and supports the implementation in industrially applicable software tools. The VDC Fellbach is a founding member of this center and supports technology transfer in medium-sized enterprises.
Wirtschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg
The support in the creation of future-oriented clusters is a challenge for the regional innovation and technology policy of the Ministry of Economics. Together with the industry, academia, and existing cluster organizations, the Ministry of Economics works on a cluster-political conception that aims at developing further the regional clusters in the areas of automotive, production technology, enterprise software and services, photonics, telemedia and health care.
Baden-Württemberg: Connected e.V.
Baden-Württemberg: Connected e.V. (bwcon) is a central business initiative that supports the innovative and high-tech region of Baden-Württemberg. bwcon connects more than 420 enterprises, research facilities, and networks. bwcon provides for a fertile basis for intersectoral technological applications as well as interdisciplinary cooperation through its working areas, i.e. creative industry, health care, information and communication technologies, as well as connecting technologies.
Photonics BW
Whether in information and communication technology, display technology, metrology, medicine and biotechnology, or in manufacturing technology - light is being used as a tool in a wide variety of practical applications. More and more functions are being realized with optical technologies and include products with optical elements as key components. For these reasons, optical technologies are the pace-makers and problem solvers for important tasks of our society and belong to the technologies of the future in the 21st century. Photonics BW supports innovation-oriented structures through a network of researchers, manufacturers and users of optical technologies.
MANUFUTURE©-BW e.V.
Baden-Württemberg is worldwide well-known as one of the leading regions for manufacturing. To further support this high potential in manufacturing in Baden-Wuerttemberg, especially in the Stuttgart Region, the association MANUFUTURE©-BW e.V. has been founded. MANUFUTURE©-BW is a alliance of businesses, administration, research, education and training institutions, as well as regional centers of excellence. The activities of the association focus on the promotion and the reinforcement of the cooperation among the association members regarding their value chains and all important technological areas for manufacturing. VDC Fellbach is a founding member of MANUFUTURE©-BW.
Cluster Visual Computing BW
The Cluster Visual Computing BW networks computer graphics stakeholders across Baden-Württemberg. The cluster’s annual meeting is held on the fringes of the fmx conference. The Virtual Dimension Center VDC is a founding member of this network.
Kompetenznetze Deutschland
Through the Initiative Networks of Competence Germany (Kompetenznetze Deutschland), the Federal Ministry for Science and Technology brings outstanding innovation networks across the whole country together. The decision of integrating a new competence network is based on detailed application documents that are reviewed by an appointed advisory board from the Federal Ministry of Economics. The VDC Fellbach has been integrated in the national network in 2006.
VDI-Kompetenzcluster
VDI-KompetenzCluster is a web portal of cluster initiatives and networks in Germany. It presents more than 1200 initiatives in an interactive cluster atlas.
Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
The Society for Informatics (GI) is the largest association of German speaking computer scientists. It sees itself as a platform for computer science professionals from academia and business, university and public administration, and gathers a dense concentration of knowledge, innovation and visions. Core topics of its activity include the promotion of new blood, knowledge transfer from research to the industry, data protection issues, and security of informatics systems. VDC’s technical director Dr. Christoph Runde is member of the professional grouping Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
Fachmesse Digital Factory, Hannover Messe
VDC supports the Digital Factory exhibition taking place at the annual Hannover Industry Fair. Since 2010 a new exhibition event "visualisation/simulation" is taking place.
EuroVR
The European VR and AR Association will be a non-profit association gathering Organizations, Industrials, Research Institutes, Academics, SMEs, and other contractors, working for a common cause towards a common target. The Association is a vision that emerged from the work done in the INTUITION project years and has as a prime target the promotion of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality at a European-wide level. The VDC Fellbach is a founding member of EuroVR.
Europa InterCluster
Europa InterCluster, the European agency for cluster cooperation, is a bottom-up initiative originating from a few cluster organisations. It is a non-profit body whose full membership is restricted to clusters.
European Network of Living Labs
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is a network of European “Living Labs”. Living Labs federate national and regional governments, universities, and enterprises. A Living Lab is a method for so-called “user-driven innovation”, under which concept scientists research and develop, together with potential end-users in real conditions, new solutions, new products, new services or new business models. R&D innovation processes are currently being accelerated and provide for more growth and employment in Europe.
Center of Visualization Göteborg
The Center of Visualization Göteborg is a network in the field of virtual reality and visualisation in Sweden. Its 30 members are working as technology providers, users or in R&D.
TechNet Alliance
The TechNet Alliance is a global network of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) experts for the development, consulting, support, training, application, as well as marketing and sales of CAE-software and technologies. The global alliance comprises more than 2500 CAE employees in 55 enterprises from 22 countries.
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS)
IMS is an industry-led, international research and development (R & D) initiative established to develop the next generation of manufacturing and processing technologies. Companies and research institutions from the 27 member countries of the European Union, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, and the United States of America participate in this initiative.