Most universities and research institutes have a department, or at least a group researching on Neural Networks. Users of Neurocomputing technology can be found throughout all faculties, in various applications within the scientific community and in industry and commerce. All the larger companies in Germany are familiar with Neurocomputing and some of them have research groups of their own. Especially for SMEs the awareness of the advantages that Neurocomputing can offer is not high enough.
Further information has to be transfered from universities to industry.
Most of the computer science and electrical engineering departments of German universities have a Neurocomputing division or a group working on Neural Networks. As supplementary courses in addition to the regular studies. Special courses are available in most of the technical and nature science departments offered by the local Neurocomputing working groups. During special seminars on Neurocomputing organized by universities and research institutes or by companies. From the beginning of Neurocomputing until today the scientific field of Neural Networks and Neurocomputing have made a number of changes.