The OMiLAB gGmbH is a non-profit organization (NPO) with headquarter in Berlin. Its aim is to build and support a community network of localized OMiLABs focused on different disciplines across the world. In order to achieve this, the NPO enters into cooperation with non-profit bodies and public corporations and pursues activites aimed at bringing together experts and stakeholders from different scientific disciplines and application domains. The aim is to consolidate common knowledge and advance the associated software development, to design a future research and development framework for modelling and to support the exploitation of results in global communities based on open platforms.
The OMiLAB NPO has already two localized design laboratory installations one at the University of Vienna (Austria) since 2010 and one at the University of Chonbuk (Korea) since 2015. The NPO makes available to the community an open-source micro-service portal as well as different community-driven open source diesgn tools (currently more than 40). In addition, the NPO provide knoqledge transfer services, trainings and networking events to the community members. Since 2014, the NEMO Summer School Series is part of the NPOs international education portfolio.