Universität Leipzig was founded in 1409 and is thus the second oldest university in Germany where teaching has continued without interruption. Today it offers a wide spectrum of academic disciplines at 14 faculties with more than 150 institutes.

From A for African Studies to W for West Slavic Studies, Universität Leipzig is a classic university with the whole range of subjects from natural sciences through law, human and veterinary medicine to numerous arts degrees. 28,000 young people from all over the world are currently studying on more than 140 courses. A variety of co-operation programmes with foreign partner universities and an internationally oriented choice of subjects make Leipzig attractive for students world-wide. The University has exchange programmes with over 350 ERASMUS partner universities in some 150 European cities and with more than 60 universities outside Europe.

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OpenLink Software is a United Kingdom SME founded in 1992. It operates a business development and sales subsidiary in the United States. Most product development takes place within the EU, across the UK, Netherlands and Bulgaria. The company is a leading provider of high-performance, scalable, and secure technology covering: data access drivers, data virtualization middleware; native database management (RDBMS or RDF based Graph Store), and enterprise collaboration.

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geomer GmbH considers itself as a committed provider of geo-intelligence solutions for challenging geographical tasks. geomer is an independent company with private shareholders. The company was founded with domicile in Heidelberg in 1999. With a scientific background and due to the integrative mastering of different competence fields, geomer provides its customers with above-average solution excellence - from the consultancy to the IT technical implementation. The focuses of our activities are products, solutions and project services in the areas of geo-intelligence, geo-spatial data, risk provisioning and natural hazards.

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