News

2026

• brAInstorm Colloquium Strengthens AI Research and Knowledge Transfer
• Heading into the Future with Pride: Graduation Ceremony of the EMI Department
• 7.-9. July 2026: InformatikSchool4Girls
• FORGE receives funding: OTH Amberg-Weiden participates in the development of a Bavarian multimodal AI foundation model
• Bavarian-International Night of Geodesy
• From Deep Learning to Robotics: Focus on Practical AI Applications 
• Launch of project GeArLLM: AI-Powered Automation for the Manufacturing of the Future
• Successful completion of the ZIM project Industry 4.0 Automation Computing Edge
• Generative AI for PLC code generation: Practical solutions for regional industry

• From the region – for the region: EMI faculty donates to Lebenshilfe basketball team

   

2025

• How close are we to truly helpful AI dialogue systems?
• Certificates ceremoniously presented to the REDIG and DIWAG doctoral centers
• OTH Amberg-Weiden wows at the Long Night of Sciences
• YouTube Video of the Long Night of Sciences
• LLM Seminar of Bavarian NLP Professors at the Speinshart Scientific Center
• Bavarian-Czech AI Summer School at Speinshart Monastery
• Physical Computing: Students make technology playable!
• Discovering technology, shaping the future: MINTSchool4Girls inspires schoolgirls
• Shaping the Future: Science Day Sparks New Impetus for Society and the Region
• “Experience Digitalization” – Digital Day 2025 Thrills Visitors
• Marsrover and escape room games at the OTH in Amberg (otv.de)
• Focus on AI: Successful Kick-off for the 1st Amberg AI Congress
• EMI Graduation Ceremony: 178 Engineers Celebrate Their Successful Graduation  
• Research on Equal Footing: DIWAG Doctoral Program Impresses at Annual Meeting
• Industrial AI: Experience Industry 4.0 – connected, practical, and international!
• Study more effectively with AI
• Around 600 new students are starting the 2025 summer semester
• OpenInnovation @THEIMPULSE AI Insights: Chances, Trends, Visions (organised by IHK Regensburg/Oberpfalz, SIEMENS Amberg, OTH Amberg-Weiden)
• TTZ Neustadt an der Waldnaab: Launch of „AI-driven Factory of the future“
• High-tech meets creativity: Students present innovative projects in “Physical Computing” - Video on YouTube  
• Grandparent Scam 2.0 – AI Shock Call Using Daughter’s Real Voice in Mantel (onetz.de)
• "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the IT Industry" – Computer Science Professor Featured in Book

2024

• EMI Forum: Focus on Free Open Source Software
• Exchange between corporate representatives and AI experts
• Students from MRS Waldsassen experience a hands-on AI day at OTH (beiunsdaheim.de)
• AI event revolutionizes corporate communication (oberpfalzecho.de)
• Conference: "Best Practices in Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence for SMEs"
• Hirschau company boosts revenue through AII (BR)
• Companies: Revenue growth through AI (BR24 Rundschau)
• AI for SMEs: New center launched in Weiherhammer (otv.de)
• Holistic IT Security in the Enterprise
• AI Symposion of Bavarian UAS Professors on Large Language Models und Natural Language Processing in Speinshart
• Night of Science attracts crowds of people to the OTH (onetz.de)
• Night of Science at OTH (otv.de)
• InformatikCamp4Girls: enthusiasm for computer science awakened
• InformatikCamp4Girls at OTH Amberg-Weiden (otv.de)
• Computer science courses at OTH Amberg-Weiden achieve top positions in the CHE ranking
• Unique cooperation project: ILOs celebrate 10th anniversary
• FLÜGGE scholarship for the start-up project medespro at the OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Cooperation in Helsinki: Progress and Perspectives
• HCA Gymnasium graduation ceremony (onetz.de)
• Digital Day at OTH (otv.de „Oberpfälzer Heimat”)
• Discover and try out artificial intelligence (otv.de)
• Graduation ceremony EMI 2023/24
• Presentation of new method „Counterfactual Dialog Mixing“ (CDM) at LREC-COLING 2024
• How AI is revolutionizing everyday life (mittelbayerische.de)
• The autonomous factory – science fiction or already reality?
• EMI Forum „AI for Evil – The dark sides of AI”
• Empowering girls in technology: Girls go IT at OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Girls'Day at OTH Amberg-Weiden –Experience computer science up close
• AI-controlled machine monitoring and maintenance: ZIM research project for SMEs
• OTH Research Report 2024 – Answers to today’s problems
• Learning Hall – new, innovative learning space at OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Good soul of the EMI faculty retires: „Thank you, Iris!“
• EMI Forum „AI for good – Doing good with artificial intelligence”

2023

• God and the Upper Palatinate – ChatGPT (OTV.de)
• Workshop „Best Practices: Data (Lake | Warehouse | Mesh)“
• Supporting young talent: 51 Germany scholarships were awarded
• Bavarian Culture Prize for EMI graduate Katharina Lutter
• Strong network: New members in the OTH Amberg-Weiden PartnerCircle
• We at the Long Night of Science in Nuremberg
• OTH Amberg-Weiden present at INFORMATIK 2023 and KI2023conferences
• The people of Upper Palatinate can also do ArtificiaI Intelligence (work:life)
• Polish and Bavarian universities are strengthening their cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence
• Teach4NLP Workshop
• Second AI Summer School
• InformatikCamp4Girls (OTV.de)
• First InformatikCamp4Girls inspires students
• Digital Campus inaugurated (OTV.de)
• Success through knowledge transfer in software innovation
• Lecture on ChatGPT and Co.: Professor talks about "Possibilities, Limits and Consequences"
• Trust me, I’m an engineer: Graduation Farewell of 176 EMI graduates
• OTH cooperates with Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Homeland (OTV.de)
• Trust me, I’m an engineer: 176 EMI-Absolvent*innen verabschiedet
• Digital Crafts Day – Digital Craftsmanship Nordoberpfalz
• 1-2-3 Campus TV magazine: Smart home devices can make everyday life easier, but what are the risks?
• Software developers wanted: "Digital Crafts Day" at the OTH in Weiden helps to find them
• Presentation of the "Digital Crafts Day"
• Computer science is the focus of Girls' Day at OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Open Innovation Evening with Siemens Amberg and Herding Filtertechnik GmbH
• EMI Forum: Artificial intelligence and mobile robotics
• Industry 4.0 - Spring School 2023
• Visit of Science Minister Markus Blume at the IKKI/OTH booth at ai.bay 2023
• School network continues to grow: Regental-Gymnasium Nittenau and Naabtal-Realschule Nabburg are now among the cooperation schools of OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Smarter production with AI: EMI forum "Artificial intelligence in industrial production".

2022

• Open Innovation Evening - joint event of Siemens, Herding GmbH Filtertechnik and OTH Amberg-Weiden provides impulses for digital transformation
• AI Summer School at WBU Pilsen
• Faculty EMI: 114 graduates bid farewell to the faculty
• Industry 4.0 - Spring School 2022 with Siemens Amberg
• Taster days during the Whitsun vacations at OTH Amberg-Weiden
• OTH Amberg-Weiden at the Long Night of Science in Nuremberg
• EMI Forum takes guests on a journey to the cloud
• Creative, innovative and modern - 1st Oberpfalztag in Amberg
• Programming with a mask? - The main thing is that it runs!
• Technology Forum: Amberg on the way to a Smart City - added value for citizens or unnecessary technology?

2021

• OTH Amberg-Weiden at "g'scheid schlau! The Long Weekend of Science online
• New courses of study offered
• OTH Amberg-Weiden bundles AI expertise in the Innovation and Competence Center Artificial Intelligence (IKKI)
• BACK TO PHYSICAL: "Physical Computing" exhibition of the EMI faculty
• AI no danger (PDF)
• Expansion of the Digital Campus of the OTH Amberg-Weiden: Conversion of new laboratory space progresses
• Expansion of the Digital Campus of the OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Speinshart: Ideas for an AI research center (otv)

2020

• 2,500 sqm of new lab space: Expansion of the Digital Campus of the OTH Amberg-Weiden
• OTH Amberg-Weiden uses ex-Grammer headquarters and expands Digital Campus
• Dual study: OTH Amberg-Weiden and Neumarkt agency mr. pixel sign cooperation agreement
• OTH and Neumarkt agency mr. pixel sign cooperation agreement

2019

• Deep Learning needs experience and intuition
• Marvel, participate, experience: Night of Science attracts visitors
• The future of aging
• Physical computing: students present their exhibits at "50+ Fit and Active Day"
• 2. exchange of experiences: dual studies
• Dual Date IT
• Two days of Industry 4.0 at the Lauf Industrial Museum
• Study program of the week: Industry 4.0 Informatics
• Dual study: Cooperation agreement with publisher C.H.BECK
• Student groups from Istanbul and Tallinn at OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Innovative teaching method: learning programming in the flipped classroom with IoT hardware

2018

• Cooperation agreement: Siemens Amberg becomes Innovative LearningOrganization (ILO)
• OTH and Siemens offer new dual bachelor's degree program in Industry 4.0 computer science with training as an electronics technician for devices and systems
• Automated all-rounders
• Programming like the world champions
• Computer science fair at HCA high school on July 5, 2018 (MINT-EC.de)
• OTV: New dual study program "Industry-4.0-Informatics"
• Dual study program: Industry 4.0 computer science in cooperation with Siemens
• Study program of the week: Industry-4.0-Informatics
• EMI Forum "Linux - not just for nerds
• Link collection for the Linux Presentation Day 2018.1 in Amberg
• Industry 4.0 - Spring School 2018 at the Kulturschloss Theuern
• Girls'Day-Academy: Girls program traffic lights
• Girls'Day Academy: Laboratory practice at the OTH
• Wild Robotic in the Bionicum - Robot meeting with "EMIlie Pepper".
• OTH presents robot Emilie in Nuremberg - kitchen help on two wheels
• Youtube: EMIlie Pepper at the Bionicum Nuremberg
• Encounters of the third kind: 1st robot meeting at the Bionicum Nuremberg

2017

• Physical Computing Fair: Students present their developments
• W-Seminar Computer Science Physical Computing - Herzog-Christian-August-Gymnasium Sulzbach-Rosenberg
• University partnership between OTH Amberg-Weiden and Lodz University of Technology
• Those who speak C++ and C# (Oberpfalz IT 7/2017, p.6)
• Successful 3rd annual conference of the INDIGO network.
• Arduboy Hackathon in Amberg
• Linux Presentation Day - Discover the penguin in you!
• IEEE EDUCON 2017: Presentation of the teaching concept "Training Scrum with Gamification".
• Winter semester 2017/18: OTH Amberg-Weiden starts application phase
• New Bachelor's programs "Industry 4.0 Informatics" and "Media Informatics" to start in winter semester 2017/2018 at OTH Amberg-Weiden
• Robot Pepper: On advanced training in the Upper Palatinate (BR)
• University live: OTH Amberg-Weiden shows its facets at open day
• Amberg: Newcomers at the OTH: Pepper and Nao (OTV)
• 1st PartnerForum at IGZ: Information, visit and exchange on "IT and digitalization".
• 1st Spring School 2017 "Industry 4.0" at the Mining and Industry Museum Theuern
• School cooperation with the Herzog-Christian-August-Gymnasium Sulzbach-Rosenberg
• School cooperation of the OTH with the Herzog-Christian-August-Gymnasium
• Exchange of experience on dual studies: Stakeholders from vocational and academic education in discussion
• EMI-Forum: "The enemy in your computer" - crime on the net and how to solve it
• New addition to the robot family: Pepper moves into the OTH Amberg-Weiden
• In-service qualification programs for engineers and computer scientists

2016

• Media informatics students win Fraunhofer hacking event
• Start-up funding approved: Industry 4.0 computer science in Amberg
• European Conference on Software Engineering Education (ECSEE)
• DELPH-IN Summit at Stanford University
• How does international project management work at a major automotive supplier?
• EMI Forum on May 19, 2016: e-file, e-government, e-justice - uh, what?

2015

• AWARDED: Committed. In. the. Teaching. - 10.12.2015 in Weiden - Heroes of the University.
• ICT and RAKS clusters gain momentum
• Physical Computing - Podcast
• Scrum with Minecraft
• Project management in practice
• EMI Forum 2015 on Ambient Assisted Living
• AAL Congress 2015