As one of the Universities in Germany awarded the status of "Excellence University", RWTH Aachen University, established in 1870, is a leading technical university in Germany and Europe with over 40,000 students and more than 500 professors. RWTH participates in ASSET with the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS) and Human Technology Centre at the RWTH Aachen through its Managing Director and the leader of the research group "Gender and Diversity in Engineering" at the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

RWTH also have strong collaboration, originated in FP7 and H2020 projects, with industrial partners, with which RWTH has produced educational material in form of one MOOC (currently in development, on cybersecurity from H2020 projects RESERVE and SUCCESS) and some books intended for the broader technical audience. RWTH also routinely offers courses for industry and continuous education for students, organized, managed and marketed by the RWTH International Academy.