The major event at the Zuse Institute (ZIB) in 2014 was ZIB’s scientific evaluation on November 23–24 by an international review board (headed by Professor Hans-Joachim Bungartz of TU Munich). This assessment, requested by the Berlin ministries with which ZIB is associated, the Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science, was executed along the evaluation guidelines for the institutes of the Leibniz Association.