Our mission: Strengthening Europe's digital sovereignty
At the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), we strive to promote Europe's digital sovereignty. We want to achieve this through excellent research and teaching in the field of computer science. With our work, we are helping Europe to actively and self-determinedly shape the digital future.
Our founding idea
The HPI was founded on a simple idea: only an excellent education in systems engineering will enable us to help shape and advance the digital world of the future. We firmly believe that we need to combine knowledge from different disciplines in order to work together to develop responsible and forward-looking solutions. This is the only way we can achieve excellent results.
Our values and the HPI spirit
Our strong HPI spirit is the driving force that helps us achieve our ambitious goals. The core values of collaboration, responsibility and excellence, which have grown over time, form the basis for our daily actions.
- COLLABORATION: We strengthen COLLABORATION through TEAM SPIRIT in our teams, through RESPECT in dealing with each other and through JOINT PROBLEM SOLVING when we encounter challenges.
- RESPONSIBILITY: We bear RESPONSIBILITY with COURAGE and keeping an eye on the FUTURE VIABILITY of our actions and solutions. TRANSPARENCY in our processes and decisions creates the basis for this.
- EXCELLENCE: We achieve EXCELLENCE in research and teaching, in our daily work and in our results through CREATIVE SPIRIT, our high standards of PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE and by constantly LEARNING FROM MISTAKES.
Our claim: DESIGN IT. CREATE KNOWLEDGE.
Our guiding principle is reflected in our claim: to create in-depth knowledge and design innovative IT solutions in order to responsibly shape the digital future.
Our values: A campus for tolerance, respect, and openness
The Hasso Plattner Institute stands for tolerance, respect, and openness. We are a place of research and teaching, a campus for new ideas, exchange, and critical thinking. People from a wide variety of backgrounds learn, teach, and work with us and alongside us. People of all genders. People from different cultural and social backgrounds, with disabilities, of different religions, and sexual orientations.
And it is this diversity of people that makes us successful!
We believe in the opportunities of the future and that we can only shape them successfully with diverse perspectives. We believe in an open, free, and democratic society. We stand for fundamental rights, human rights, equal opportunities, and diversity in all its facets. The HPI is irrevocably committed to these values.
Last change: 27/05/2026, Julia Porstendörfer