The Berlin Node consists of six core partners (Deutsche Telekom AG, Siemens AG, SAP AG, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft e.V., DFKI gGmbH and TU Berlin) plus six affiliate partners: Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland University, TU Darmstadt - Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED), TU München, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and EICT GmbH.

The co-location has a strong focus on innovation and is well connected with education and research activities with a visible record in European projects. The direct integration of leading VCs, like Investment Bank Berlin (IBB) and industry-driven VCs from Deutsche Telekom and Siemens is of particular importance. Berlin forms an avant-garde hotspot for design, culture and innovations integrating media, art, and services in a multidisciplinary way.

Systematic university-industry collaboration and integration with leading research institutes is well established practice for stakeholders in the Berlin Co-location Centre. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) like Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs), DFKI, and EICT provide well-running examples to further build upon. In education, Berlin has established a track record for new, truly multidisciplinary education programmes integrating universities from the Berlin area to form a joint virtual university.

Being among the leading R&D and economic hubs in European ICT, our partners in the Munich region will reinforce the Berlin Node. This affiliated hotspot includes Siemens ICT corporate research and Technische Universität München with its associated institutes CDTM, UnternehmerTUM, and fortiss – strong partners in entrepreneurial education and innovation centres for cyber-physical systems.

Co-Location Centre Node Berlin.

The Co-location Centre (CLC) is located on the campus of TU Berlin, in the heart of the city’s west – a hotspot where education, research and industry meets the German government.  The CLC takes up the entire 6th floor of the Telefunken Hochhaus and has number of offices with permanent workplaces and a large open space that can either be utilised as a venue for lectures and conferences, or be divided into up to four meeting rooms.  There are videoconferencing systems to facilitate cross-node collaboration.

In December 2010 the Berlin Node established its legal entity, the “EIT ICT Labs GmbH”. A service contract between EIT ICT Labs GmbH and EICT GmbH  will be formed to support EIT ICT Labs GmbH in operating the Berlin Node and the Co-Location Centre and fostering cooperation between the Node’s partners.

Due to the broad competencies of the German partners, the Berlin Node will contribute to most of the cross-node activities but will have a particular focus and lead in the following areas:

• Education - EIT ICT Labs Education Catalysts and Master School Activities (e.g. Cloud computing)
• Business - Business coordination and EIT ICT Labs Business Catalysts development
• Coordination of the "action lines" Smart energy systems and Intelligent Mobility and Transportation Systems.
• Research - "Internet Technologies & Architectures" and "Computing in the Cloud"

Location and directions, contact information and legal imprint for the co-location centre