With the establishment of the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied computer science and scientific computing (IZ-2) the Bergische Universität Wuppertal pursuits in a structual way the aim to build an internationally noticable center of excellence in order to develop trend-setting methods and techniques of Applied Computer Science and Scientific Computing interlaced with resource-intensive scientific applications.

In most ways the IZ-2 is research-orientated and aims with its working spectrum for fields of computer sciences being the methodical core of research work.