How can a university teach content at a high level and actively shape the society of tomorrow? What does the realization of an Industry 4.0 look like in which technologies empower people and do not replace them? What are the opportunities and risks involved in designing future human-machine systems? These are the questions addressed by Julia Staiger Engel (University of Education) in her presentation of "Service Learning", Prof. Dr. Barbara Deml (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in her contribution on the design of human-machine interaction and Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Haas and Dr. Maja Jeretin-Kopf (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) in their discussion of the human factor in the Industry 4.0 landscape.