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“Software Engineering Research: One of the Most Critical Endeavors for the Digital Society”

–  Open letter published by  Informatics Europe in 2025, co-signed by the  Swiss Informatics Research Association (SIRA) and other leading associations in computer science

The core message of this letter underscores the indispensable role of software in driving innovation across various sectors – from healthcare to finance, transportation, and education – while highlighting the growing challenges posed by our increasingly complex, software-intensive systems. To meet these challenges, software engineering research must advance fundamental principles that ensure security, correctness, reliability, performance, scalability, safety, and sustainability in these systems.

At the Software Engineering Group (SEG), a research group established in 2022 and headed by Prof. Dr. Timo Kehrer at the  Institute of Computer Science at the  University of Bern, we embrace this mission from multiple perspectives, contributing to building the foundations for a sustainable digital future through research and teaching.