sentences:  The HPI School of Design Thinking – established in 2007 – provides each year 160 students from many different fields of study the opportunity of working in multidisciplinary teams where they learn to become invatores and to develop particularly userfriendly, IT-related products and services.HPI cooperates closely with Stanford University, in Palo Alto, home of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.In 2008, the Hasso Plattner Foundation launched a joint innovation research program, the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.