| The European Media Laboratory GmbH (EML) was established in Heidelberg in 1997 by Dr. h.c. Klaus Tschira, one of the founders of the SAP AG software company.
Two years earlier, in 1995, Klaus Tschira had set up the Klaus Tschira Foundation gGmbH (KTF). The not-for-profit organization mainly supports research ventures in applied computer science, the natural sciences, and mathematics. In all its activities, a key aim of the KTF is to foster public understanding for these disciplines.
The home of the Foundation is the Villa Bosch, the former residence of the Nobel Prize laureate Carl Bosch.
As of 1998 the task of "building up" EML was entrusted to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Reuter.
Initially, the European Media Laboratory GmbH was designed as an IT research institute dealing with research assignments from the KTF and thus supporting the Foundation in realizing the aims it had set itself. In 2003, the non-profit EML Research gGmbH was established, taking over all the activities of the original EML dedicated to long-term, basic-research objectives.
Since then, the European Media Laboratory GmbH has been concentrating on application-oriented issues, supporting the Foundation in its technology transfer endeavors and assisting it with the preparatory stages for the implementation of innovative IT solutions in the form of new applications.
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