The joint Master’s Programme “Informatics for Social Innovation” (ISI) is a joint effort by four leading universities from Japan, France, Germany and Spain – University of Tsukuba (UT), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) – to respond to and fill the need for interdisciplinary specialists on the intersection of Informatics / Computer Sciences and Social Sciences / Humanities. For this programme, all four participating universities are partnering with the Science Cities they are located in and therefore well situated for transfering new ideas, findings, and devices into the cities.