The Opening Workshop aims at bringing together all participating partner institutions and researchers in Bielefeld for the first time to discuss opportunities, measures, joint projects and next steps of the DAAD Thematic Network Interactive Intelligent Systems.

The Thematic Network (funding period 2015–2018) comprises six highly respected partner institutions from around the globe: Bielefeld University/CITEC, Indiana University Bloomington, Italian Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Queensland University of Technology, and Israel Institute of Technology