GWDG wins the IT Community Award 2025!

We are delighted to have received a special award: The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen (GWDG) – together with all its teams – won the IT Community Award of the Max Planck Society (MPG) at the IT4Science Days, which took place from 23 to 25 September 2025 in Bremen! This award is presented annually for … Read more

Launching the Future of Chat AI — Multimodal, Open, and Effortless

Hosted on GWDG’s high-performance infrastructure, this Chat AI UI offers seamless access to a curated suite of open-source LLMs — with Qwen3-30B A3B Instruct 2507 as the default engine for tool-enabled workflows.  One-click Tool Activation unlocks: Image Generation & Editing – FLUX.1-schnell for creative synthesis – Qwen-Image-Edite for precise image-to-image transformation Text-to-Speech Conversion – Powered … Read more

KI.Connect – The Networking Event for the Region on 14.11.2025 in Göttingen

On Friday, November 14, 2025, the AI event “KI.Connect” will take place at the GWDG in the Göttingen Data Center – a networking and information platform for regional businesses, researchers, students, and local policymakers. The program includes engaging, popular-science-style talks, workshops, and panel discussions on current AI applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and society. The … Read more

Relaunch of the survey platform “LimeSurvey”

We are pleased to announce that the announced relaunch of our survey platform “LimeSurvey” is in full swing. Among other things, this includes an update to LimeSurvey version 6.x in a new environment and improved usability. The new platform is available through our landing page. You also find a direct link there to the old … Read more

Schedule for the introduction of mandatory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for UMG and the University of Göttingen

To further enhance the security of IT services at the University of Göttingen and the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is being introduced as of today. This will ensure that all user accounts are better protected against unauthorized access. The rollout will not take place for all members at the same time, … Read more

MATLAB Course Week in November 2025

We are pleased to offer exciting MATLAB courses in online format at the GWDG Academy again this year, which will be conducted by MathWorks employees: 1.) Parallel Computing with MATLAB Date: November 17, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Further course information 2.) Demo Session: Scaling up MATLAB to the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster Date: … Read more

August issue of the GWDG News published

The August issue of the GWDG News has just been published. It contains among others the following topics: AI for all Universities – GWDG Presents Financing Concept for Nationwide Basic Provision FAIRCORE4EOSC – Implementing FAIR Principles in the European Open Science Cloud DLR High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN) Workshop 2025 Graduation Project for an Apprenticeship … Read more