HPI

Founded in 1998, the HPI has repeatedly received outstanding scores in higher education rankings. For example, the latest ranking conducted by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) assessed the HPI as one of the four university institutions offering the best computer science programs in the German-speaking countries, alongside the universities of Karlsruhe, Saarbruecken and Passau. The German federal government acknowledged the achievements of the Hasso Plattner Institute and its founder by holding its first national IT summit at the HPI in December 2006. The Institute works with internationally renowned academic institutions such as Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
The HPI was founded as a public-private partnership by the non-profit Hasso Plattner Foundation for Software Systems Engineering. The Brandenburg state government contributed by providing the site for the Institute, a prime location next to the Griebnitzsee lake in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The buildings were constructed in 2000 and extended in 2005. A further building is scheduled for completion in 2010.
Philanthropist Hasso Plattner had initially pledged to endow the foundation with more than €50 million of his own capital to fund the Institute’s operations. Meanwhile he has more than quadrupled his financial pledges, bringing his total contribution to well over €200 million.