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Project: New Paths with AI

New Paths with AI

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become significantly more important in many fields and is also having a major impact on our university. At JLU, a wide variety of activities related to AI are taking place in numerous organizations, particularly in research and teaching. The planning project New Paths with AI aims to strengthen the links between these activities in order to exploit synergies and develop strategic objectives for AI in research, teaching, and the administration at JLU.

New Paths with AI project completed

The objective of the workshop was to bring together stakeholders from all areas of JLU and jointly develop strategies for the future use of AI at our university. The workshop targeted employees from research, teaching, administration, and technology, as well as students.

Das von Herbst 2025 bis Frühjahr 2026 durchgeführte Planungsprojekt "Neue Wege mit KI" wurde unter der Leitung des CIO und des Büros für Digitalisierung (BfD) abgeschlossen. Ziel war die Entwicklung einer zukunftsfähigen KI-Struktur für die JLU.

Project goals

  • Identify and bring together stakeholders in the field of AI at JLU.
  • Develop strategic objectives based on a needs assessment regarding AI.
  • Showcase current AI-related activities at JLU on a comprehensive website.
  • Gather best practices from other universities and assess their applicability to JLU.
  • Develop proposals for a sustainable AI framework at JLU.

New Paths with AI workshop:

The goal of the workshop on November 25, 2025 was to bring together stakeholders from all areas of JLU and jointly develop strategies for the future use of AI at our university. The workshop targeted employees from research, teaching, administration, and technical services, as well as students.

Here you will find all additional information about the workshop including PDFs from the  contributors. (German only)

Diverse group of university workers sitting in a casual workshop, discussing the role and use of AI in their institution. They are pointing at a central diagram connecting a university building icon with various AI concepts (robot, brain, cloud data, security shield, and lightbulb idea).

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Project results

The results were presented to the executive board in March 2026, marking the conclusion of the planning project. More detailed information can be found here: (Login required)

Note: All of the following information reflects the current status as of the project's conclusion. The documents will not be updated here.

You can find an overview of JLU’s key AI activities here: uni-giessen.de/ai

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone from the research, teaching, and administrative communities who participated in the project, attended the workshop and other networking meetings, and contributed their perspectives to the project’s outcomes.