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“We have been supporting educational promotion efforts for many years. Together with education politicians, experts, schools, teachers, parents and students, we aim to improve the conditions for education and therefore the future opportunities for our children. We invest in programs throughout the live-long learning process: from early learning and primary schools to advanced professional development programs. The new Academy Cube alliance is another key platform to combat the skills shortfall in the IT sector.”
Dr. Marianne Janik, Senior Director Public Sector, Member of the Board of Management, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
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“The Academy Cube boosts Europe’s competitiveness for the Industry 4.0 era.Attracting highly qualified professionals is vital if we are to remain globally successful in the future. We believe that innovative, international education programs like the Academy Cube will grow in importance because of increasing global relationships.”
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Co-CEO, SAP AG
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“It is important to bring research, education and industry closer together. Our livelihood depends on employing the best professionals, and we can only persuade them to join us by offering an attractive environment. Accordingly, we are focusing on Industry 4.0 and Germany’s reputation as a country of world-class engineering. The Academy Cube epitomizes this process and has a powerful backer in Software AG.”
Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer, Software AG
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“With innovative learning technologies and advanced knowledge in the field of Industry 4.0 the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) represents an ideal research partner for the Academy Cube Initiative. We will help to provide a diversity of education programs in ‘Massive Open Online Courses’. Furthermore, we are able to provide specific training in new professions in our SmartFactory as a Living Lab.”
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster, CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)