Hasso Plattner Institute
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH | |
| Motto | Design IT. Create Knowledge. |
|---|---|
| Type | privately financed university institute |
| Established | 1998 |
| Director | Tobias Friedrich, Klaus Grünfelder |
Total staff | 389 |
| Students | 1,000 |
| Location | , Germany 🌍 |
| Affiliations | University of Potsdam |
| Website | https://hpi.de/ |
The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (German: Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH; HPI) is an information technology non-profit company affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Potsdam, Brandenburg, northeastern Germany.
The teaching and research of HPI are focused on "IT-Systems Engineering". HPI was founded in 1998, and is the first, and as of 2018, the only entirely privately funded faculty in Germany. It is financed entirely through private funds donated by billionaire Hasso Plattner, who co-founded the software company SAP SE, and is currently the chairman of SAP's supervisory board. From 2004 to 2023 the institute was headed by Christoph Meinel. On April 1, 2023, a team consisting of Tobias Friedrich, Marcus Kölling and Ralf Herbrich took over the management of the institute.