As the “University of the Information Society”, Paderborn University bundles its activities in all those areas that are of central importance for the further development of the information society. The fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and business informatics are an outstanding strength of Paderborn University and provide significant impetus for new products and services for the global markets of tomorrow.

On the University of Paderborn side, experts from the SI-Lab in the fields of energy efficiency and life cycle assessment (Energy Systems Engineering Group), knowledge modelling and analysis (Data Science Group) and production technology (Chair of Lightweight Automotive Design) are taking on the interdisciplinary challenges of the project. The Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP), which is linked to the SI-Lab, deals with questions of data and software-driven innovations and thus creates an essential basis for the requirements-based design of future-oriented and intelligent socio-technical systems in the energy sector, among others. The SICP provides structures for the successful transfer of technology and knowledge into practice.

The Department of Energy Systems Engineering conducts research in the field of energy-efficient production and the consideration of industrial energy requirements in the context of the energy transition, as well as the development of digital support systems for the energy transition. The researchers have many years of experience in these areas through their previous activities. This includes holistic energy efficiency analyses and the development of sustainable process heat concepts, the life cycle assessment of products and companies (PCF and Corporate Carbon Footprint), the development of automated RLM load profile analyses of companies, the development of support software for the design of energy supply systems in industry and preliminary work on automated energy demand monitoring in industrial production lines. The experience gained in the project will mainly be used in the activities of WP 3 and WP 4.

The Chair of Lightweight Automotive Design has been conducting research for many years in the field of process development and optimisation for the efficient processing of metallic materials (Marten 2017) (Pfeifer et al. 2019), plastics (Stallmeister et al. 2019), hybrid materials (Wang et al. 2018) and also bio-based materials (Schweizer et al. 2020). In addition to expertise in the field of energy, ecological and technological considerations of manufacturing processes, LiA has experience in the life cycle assessment of manufactured components, taking into account the entire life cycle (Hielscher et al. 2020). In addition, LiA is involved in the NRW research college "Light - Efficient - Mobile" and thus makes a significant contribution to overcoming social challenges such as resource efficiency and environmentally friendly mobility through an interdisciplinary research approach (Wei?-Borkowski et al. 2018). The Chair contributes its experience to WP 3.

The working group Data Science headed by Prof Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga focuses its research on issues relating to the life cycle of knowledge graphs and machine learning methods. Research results on knowledge extraction include the development, implementation and testing of methods for the (weakly) supervised recognition of entities and relations in unstructured and semi-structured data. Prof Ngonga received the Best Paper Award at ISWC 2014 for his research on agnostic disambiguation of entities. He investigated unsupervised and (weakly) supervised methods for the integration of knowledge graphs. This resulted in the LIMES tool, which has already been honoured several times, e.g. with the Best Paper Award of the ISWC 2011, and provides a good basis for the work in the development of the assistance system.

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