Heimo Hirner

With over 8,000 students, FH Campus Wien is the largest university of applied sciences in Austria. The departments of Applied Nursing Science, Applied Life Sciences, Building and Design, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Technology and Administration, Economics, Security and Politics offer a choice of almost 70 degree programmes and university courses in part-time and full-time formats. R&D projects for the degree programmes and external contract research are handled by ten subject-specific research centres. The Research Center AI, Software and Safety stands for applied research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), functional safety of AI, Extended Reality (XR), Internet of Things (IoT), and interdisciplinary software projects. It emerged from the Vienna Institute for Safety and Systems Engineering (VISSE) as a result of merging with the Department of Computer Science. The research center is a knowledge hub for innovative solutions in digitalization projects. The exchange between research, teaching and practice is promoted through cooperation with industry and public bodies as well as integration into the study program.