Since 2011 the yearly held Conference on Learning Factories is the main event for academia and industry to meet, engage and exchange on current developments in this field. The Conference on Learning Factories has been organized in recent years by University of Patras, Greece; Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany; Gjovik University College, Norway; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden; Technical University of Munich, Germany and TU Wien, Austria.

Technische Universität Braunschweig is a technical university with a rich tradition and a proven research and teaching profile. TU Braunschweig is part of the TU9 group of leading technical universities in Germany, and for each of its core disciplines, the engineering subjects, it ranks among the top 9 universities in Germany. Currently, more than 20,000 students and 6,000 members of staff are learning and working at TU Braunschweig.

The »City of Science«, rich in tradition and at the heart of »Europe’s most active research region«. With approx. 245,000 inhabitants, Braunschweig is one of the largest city in the state of Lower Saxony and located right in the middle of Germany. It is a highly dynamic place for business, trading, science and research as well as cultural activities.