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The Advisory Board visiting L3S Research Center
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The L3S Research Center focuses on fundamental and application-oriented research in all areas of Web Science. L3S researchers develop new methods and technologies that enable intelligent, seamless access to information via the Web; link individuals and communities in all areas of the knowledge society, including academia and education; and connect the Internet to the real world.
In the context of a large number of projects, the L3S explores numerous issues covering the entire spectrum of challenges in Web Science as a field of research. Since its founding in 2001, the L3S has brought together numerous scholars and researchers who actively take on these challenges and perform interdisciplinary research in the fields of information retrieval, databases, the Semantic Web, performance modeling, service computing, and mobile networks. The center’s total research volume is more than 6 million euros per year, with a large number of projects in the areas of
- Intelligent Access to Information
- Next Generation Internet
- E-Science
- Web Governance
The L3S is a research-driven institution that attracts outstanding students and researchers from all over the world with its open and invigorating research culture. For young researchers, the L3S is encouraging, innovative, international, independent, and supportive.
L3S activities primarily focus on research, but also include consulting and technology transfer. This is made possible by complementary background knowledge that L3S researchers themselves bring to their work, and the center’s cooperations and projects with scholars and researchers not only from computer sciences, but also including library sciences, linguistics, psychology, law, economics, and business administration.
The experience L3S has gained over the years in participating in a variety of projects financed by the European Union has led to a large number of cooperations with research institutions and companies throughout all of Europe, and in many research results and products. Since 2008 alone, the L3S has been involved in 12 EU projects as part of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, four of them (LivingKnowledge, Okkam, EUWB and EERQI) integrated projects, as well as the STELLAR Network of Excellence. Recently, the law focused ’Linked2Safety’ extended the row of interdisciplinary EU-projects at L3S.
In addition to its international cooperations, with its interdisciplinary research initiative entitled “Future Internet – Internet, Information and I,” L3S is playing a key role in the development of this important topic for the future of Lower Saxony as well.