Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re)

Name

Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re)

Legal name

Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re)

Website

https://khk.rwth-aachen.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Research Center

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Book Publishers (513130)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE), Academic & Scientific Conferences (MPAGAGAD)

Keywords

• Interdisciplinary academic research
• Science and technology studies
• Research fellowship programs
• Academic conferences
• Philosophy of science

Headquarters

HQ city

Aachen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Research Funding: Publicly funded by German federal and state governments, including the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMBF) and Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia under the Excellence Strategy

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Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is an international Center for Advanced Study in philosophy, sociology, and history of science and technology at RWTH Aachen University. It offers research fellowships, lecture series, summer and winter schools, conferences (including the HaPoC conference), and a digital media platform that fosters interdisciplinary exchange between humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines.

Product overview

Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is an academic research center at RWTH Aachen University offering a unified portfolio of programs for interdisciplinary research in philosophy, sociology, and history of science and technology. The core offerings include a Fellowship Program hosting researchers for extended stays, Events and Lectures featuring lecture series and conferences, Winter and Summer Schools for PhD students, the biennial HaPoC conference on history and philosophy of computing, a Media Platform with blog and video content, and a quarterly Newsletter. These programs work together to foster exchange between humanities and science/technology disciplines, with research focusing on changing research cultures, digital transformation, synthetic biology, and computing history.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fellowship Program Academic fellowship program hosting researchers for extended stays at RWTH Aachen University, including current fellows, alumni fellows, and short-term fellows, facilitating interdisciplinary research in science and technology studies.
• Events and Lectures Organized lectures, talks, workshops, conferences, and lecture series including the 'Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding' series for Summer 2026, open to academic and public audiences.
• Winter School and Summer School

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 20 million Euros in third-party funding secured
• +1 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• PRAXIS Research Group (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 July 2026Co-host of International Summer School 'The impacts of digitalization on science and society in the quest for more sustainable futures' (July 6-10, 2026) in Donostia-San Sebastián. Focuses on transformations in scientific knowledge production through digitalization.
• Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS, KIT Karlsruhe)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 July 2026Co-host of International Summer School on digitalization impacts on science and society. Contributes expertise in technology assessment and transdisciplinary research approaches.
• PACT ZollvereincoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 May 2026Collaborative partnership developing and organizing the 'Hidden Futures' event series exploring prediction and promise in technological futures. The two-day event brings together KHK c:o/re fellows, students, artists, and scholars through bus tours and talks at PACT Zollverein's international center for performing arts in Essen.
• Computer Signals Project (ZHdK)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 February 2024Art/science project collaboration between artists, biologists, and humanities scholars exploring 'Computer Signals: Art and Biology in the Age of Digital Experimentation'. The project includes workshops, art performances, and the Computersignals sound archive.
• RWTH Knowledge HubcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 February 2024Cooperation partner in science communication and workshop programming. Works with KHK c:o/re on various events and initiatives.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS): Amsterdam-based Dutch institute for advanced study offering residential fellowships. Closely comparable in mission and European public funding base, but serves a Dutch rather than German institutional ecosystem.
• Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study): Hungarian institute for advanced study offering residential fellowships across humanities and social sciences. Closely comparable in European public-fellowship model though serving a different national ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard): Harvard's institute for advanced study hosting residential fellows across disciplines including humanities and social sciences. Comparable fellowship-driven model at much larger scale and broader scope.
• Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton): Premier global institute for advanced study across mathematics, natural sciences, social science, and historical studies. Much larger and broader in scope, but operates the same fellowship-for-advanced-research model that anchors KHK c:o/re.
• Santa Fe Institute: Independent US research institute pursuing interdisciplinary scientific research across complexity, computation, and the philosophy of science. Comparable in interdisciplinary ethos and humanities-of-science orientation, though STEM-weighted.

Direct peers

• Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) Bielefeld: University of Bielefeld's Center for Interdisciplinary Research hosting international research groups on interdisciplinary topics. Directly comparable in model of hosting international fellows and running collaborative research programs.
• MIT HASTS (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society): MIT's program on History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society — a leading international hub for STS research and graduate training. Highly comparable in research focus at the intersection of humanities and science/technology.
• Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin offering fellowships to outstanding researchers across disciplines, including humanities and social sciences. Comparable as a German publicly-funded advanced study center hosting international fellows.
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG): Berlin-based Max Planck research institute conducting advanced historical and philosophical study of science, closely comparable in mission, scholarly focus, and funding model (public research funding). Most direct academic peer in Germany.
• Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University: Leiden University's interdisciplinary research center studying science systems, research cultures, and societal impact of research. Highly comparable in studying the sociology and culture of science from a humanities/social-science lens.

Market position

Strengths4 records

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Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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