It is the worldwide competence center for pattern recognition.

This was also followed up in 1986 with the acquisition of the Spanish company Himel, thus reinforcing the competence center for developing enclosure systems.

It is the national competence centre for high-performance computing and serves as a technology platform for Swiss research in computational science.

It is a competence centre for research in terms of the guidelines Life Science meets Physics.

There are one public and three private specialised universities in Norway, each functioning as a national competence centre for the field they represent.

The Novartis Foundation is a competence center for international health cooperation and corporate responsibility.

The objective of the competence center is to enforce the competence of the social, health care, educational and youth work sectors in working with men.

Training and development are seamlessly linked together at the competence center.

The activity area of the competence centre is inherited technology (wood, metal, textile) and its linking with contemporary use.

The competence center for kegging technology is also located here.