FAU - Institut für Lern-Innovation (ILI)

Name

FAU - Institut für Lern-Innovation (ILI)

Legal name

FAU Kompetenzzentrum Lehre

Website

https://ili.fau.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Teaching Support Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Applied Research & Innovation Universities (EDAHAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Laboratory / Demonstration Schools & Clinical Practice Centers (EDAHAFAN)

Keywords

• University teaching support
• Digital learning design
• Higher education consulting
• Learning management systems
• Academic professional development

Headquarters

HQ city

Fürth

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

FAU Kompetenzzentrum Lehre is the central scientific institution for teaching and teaching support at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. It delivers professional development seminars (Hochschuldidaktik), instructional design consulting, digital learning media production, and AI-supported teaching tools. It also serves as the vhb Office for FAU within the Virtual University of Bavaria network spanning 29 Bavarian universities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• StudOn Learning Platform University-wide learning management system (LMS) used by FAU for course delivery, student engagement, and digital exams (StudOn-Exam), serving FAU's teaching staff and approximately 40,000 students.
• HAWKI AI Assistant FAU-specific AI assistant tool integrated into the teaching ecosystem to support AI-assisted teaching, learning, and student interaction at the university.
• Hochschuldidaktik Professional Development Seminars Kompaktkurs Hochschuldidaktik seminars covering foundations of higher education didactics, competency-oriented assessment, presentation training, and student consultation skills, offered to FAU teaching staff.
• vhb Office Consulting Services Consulting service operated by FAU Kompetenzzentrum Lehre for FAU instructors developing online courses in the Virtual University of Bavaria (vhb) network, including advisory, ideation, partner search, concept review, and application review support.
• Instructional Design and Learning Media Production Instructional design consulting, learning media production (including video and XR/virtual and augmented reality content), accessibility consulting, and legal/data protection guidance for FAU teaching staff.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Prof. Christoph SafferlingminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026FAU Professor who developed the OPEN vhb course 'Cyber-Kriminalität und digitale Strafverfolgung' (Cyber Crime and Digital Prosecution), featured in the Good Practice video series showcasing innovative didactical approaches including gamification and expert interviews.
• Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern (vhb)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAU Kompetenzzentrum Lehre serves as the vhb Office for FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, supporting the development of online courses for the Virtual University of Bavaria network. Instructional Designers provide consultation, concept reviews, and application support for vhb funding programs. The partnership spans 29 Bavarian universities and includes projects like 'KI meets vhb' (33 AI projects) and 'OPEN vhb' course offerings.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW): German national research center for higher education and science studies. Comparable in producing data, research, and analyses on German higher education, similar to how KIKOMP generates primary research on AI adoption at FAU.
• Hochschulforum Digitalisierung: German stakeholder initiative focused on digitalization of higher education, funded by Stifterverband and others. Comparable ecosystem actor that, like FAU Lehre, shapes digital-teaching policy, practice, and funding priorities across German universities.
• Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft: German science and higher-education funding and advocacy organization. Comparable as a key funding and policy ecosystem player; FAU Lehre's TERRA grant flows through Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, which sits within this broader Stifterverband orbit.

Direct peers

• Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern (vhb): The cross-institutional Virtual University of Bavaria network that FAU Kompetenzzentrum Lehre serves as the FAU vhb Office for. Highly comparable mission: enabling online teaching and cross-university course sharing across Bavarian higher education institutions.
• Canvas by Instructure: Higher-education-focused LMS used widely across universities. Comparable to StudOn in core LMS functionality and to FAU Lehre in providing institutional support for course design, integration, and digital teaching.
• Moodle Pty Ltd: Open-source learning management system provider widely used in European universities. Comparable because StudOn at FAU performs the same LMS function (course delivery, exams, student engagement) that Moodle provides to institutions globally.
• Blackboard Inc. Established higher-education LMS and digital learning platform. Operates in the same product category as StudOn and serves a similar institutional buyer (universities seeking course delivery, assessment, and engagement tooling).

Emerging players

• Knewton (Wiley): AI-powered adaptive learning and analytics for higher education, now part of Wiley. Comparable to the AI-in-teaching work FAU Lehre pursues through HAWKI and KIKOMP, though Knewton operates commercially across many institutions rather than within a single university.

Broad incumbents

• edX (2U): University-partnered online degree and course platform. Comparable in delivering cross-institutional online higher education; FAU Lehre's vhb and OPEN vhb offerings are a smaller, regional analog of this model.
• Coursera Inc. Large-scale online higher-education platform partnering with universities worldwide. Comparable to FAU Lehre's vhb-mediated online course initiatives, though Coursera is a commercial incumbent with much broader geographic and institutional reach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/@fau_lehre
• Facebookfacebook.com/fau.lehre
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fau-ili-inst-f-lerninnovation
• Instagraminstagram.com/fau_lehre

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Funding overview

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