Legal notice

Last updated: 14 September 2026

Information required under Section 5 of the German Digital Services Act (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz, DDG).

Provider

Universität Bielefeld
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
Germany

Bielefeld University is a public-law corporation with legal capacity, maintained by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is represented by its Rector, Prof. Dr. Angelika Epple.

Phone: +49 521 106-00
Fax: +49 521 106-5844
E-mail: post@uni-bielefeld.de
Web: www.uni-bielefeld.de

Publishing institution

VirtualSP is a service of the Medical School OWL at Bielefeld University, developed and operated at the Simulation and Communication Lab (SCoLa).

Medical School OWL
Simulation and Communication Lab (SCoLa)
Bielefeld University
Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld, Germany

Project lead: Dr. med. Anja Bittner
E-mail: anja.bittner@uni-bielefeld.de
Phone: +49 521 106-67420

Technical questions about the application: Dr. med. Johannes Bittner
E-mail: johannes.bittner@uni-bielefeld.de

Competent supervisory authority

Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Völklinger Straße 49
40221 Düsseldorf, Germany

VAT identification number

VAT identification number under Section 27a of the German VAT Act (Umsatzsteuergesetz): DE 811307718.

Responsible for content

Responsible for the content of this application within the meaning of Section 18 (2) of the German Interstate Media Treaty (Medienstaatsvertrag, MStV):

Dr. med. Anja Bittner
Medical School OWL, Simulation and Communication Lab (SCoLa)
Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany

The scenarios and simulated persons used for training in VirtualSP are fictional cases. They are written according to the role script template for simulated persons (RTSP) and taken from the sp-szenarien.de catalogue; the rights to the individual cases remain with the authors named there.

Liability for content

The content of this application has been prepared with the greatest possible care. Nevertheless, no guarantee can be given for its accuracy, completeness or currency. VirtualSP is a practice environment for clinical communication; the simulated persons are played by a language model, and what they say is part of a fictional case, not medical advice.

Liability for links

This application contains links to third-party services over whose content Bielefeld University has no influence. The respective providers are solely responsible for that content. No unlawful content was apparent at the time of linking; should any become known, the link will be removed.

Copyright

Unless stated otherwise, the copyright and usage rights to the texts, graphics, design and source code of this application belong to Bielefeld University. Use outside the application requires permission. Components published under free licences are unaffected.