The "Bayerische Forschungsverbund Software-Engineering (FORSOFT)" is a Bavarian consortium for research on software-engineering with close and interdisciplinary cooperation between science and practice as well as engineering and application. This consortium comes to work in February 1997. It is funded by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung and numerous industrial partners. FORSOFT thus is a research consortium next to a series of others being founded in Bavaria since 1990.

The partners in the consortium FORSOFT are the Technical University Munich, the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, the Bavarian Research Institute for Applied Software-Technology (FAST e.V.) and leading Bavarian companies in the field of software-engineering.

In 15 interdisciplinary projects, grouped into 5 project fields, more than 40 researchers and engineers from university and industry closely work together. The main goal is to scientifically found, systemize, unify, further develop and put to test a general user-oriented method, techniques for descriptions, and models of project organisation and management in the process of software-engineering. This includes fundamental topics on the organisation of the development process just as weel as the hardware/software codesign and development of heterogenous systems with real time applications.