The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), located in Tübingen, is an independent research institute. Its responsible body is the foundation "Medien in der Bildung" [Media in Education], a nonprofit organization under private law. The institute was founded in 2001. As a member of the Leibniz-Association, the IWM is supported equally by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal States under their joint program "Promotion of Non-University Scientific Research" (Art. 91 b GG). The IWM researches knowledge acquisition and knowledge communication with digital technologies. [source: IWM website]

The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellence Universities. The University of Tübingen is especially known as a center for the study of plant biology, medicine, law, archeology, ancient cultures, philosophy, theology, religious studies, humanities, and more recently, as a center of excellence for artificial intelligence. The university's noted alumni and faculty include presidents, a pope, EU Commissioners, judges of the Federal Constitutional Court, and the renowned astronomer of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, Johannes Kepler. The university is associated with eleven Nobel laureates, especially in the fields of medicine and chemistry. [source: Wikipedia]