Interested people could register for the participation and could get the SPSS Clementine and prudsys DISCOVERER tools free of charge.

Other and own software developments could be applied too.

Students of the following universities and advanced technical colleges registered to the Data Mining Cup 2002:

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Greece
• Australia National University / Australia
• BA Glauchau / Germany
• BA Mannheim / Germany
• BiTS Iserlohn / Germany
• Budapest Business School / Hungary
• Capricorn High School / South Africa
• Creighton University / USA
• ECDM Akademie / Germany
• ENSAI - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique de l'Analyse d' Information / France
• Fern FH Hamburg / Germany
• Fernuniversität Hagen / Germany
• FH AKAD Rendsburg/Pinneberg / Germany
• FH Augsburg / Germany
• FH Biel/Switzerland / Germany
• FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg / Germany
• FH Darmstadt / Germany
• FH Düsseldorf / Germany
• FH Fulda / Germany
• FH Hagenberg / Germany
• FH Köln / Germany
• FH Liechtenstein / Austria
• FH Lüneburg / Germany
• FH Mannheim / Germany
• FH Nordhausen / Germany
• FH Pforzheim / Germany
• FH Schmalkalden / Germany
• FH Stralsund / Germany
• FH Stuttgart (FH für Druck und Medien) / Germany
• FH Südwestfalen / Germany
• FH Wiesbaden / Germany
• FH Wilhelmshaven / Germany
• FHDW Bergisch Gladbach / Germany
• FHTW Berlin / Germany
• FU Berlin / Germany
• Fundan University / China
• German Cancer Reserch Center / Germany
• HS Anhalt Köthen / Germany
• HS Bremerhaven / Germany
• HS Leipzig / Germany
• HTW Dresden / Germany
• HU Berlin / Germany
• Imperial College / United Kingdom
• Indian Institute of Science / India
• Indian Institute of Technology / India
• Instituto de Empresa de Madrid / Spain
• Instituto Superior de Engenharia / Porto
• Instituto Superior Tecnico / Portugal
• International Institue of Information Technology (IIIT) / India
• Louisiana State University / USA
• Lung-Hwa University of Science and Technology / Taiwan
• MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology / USA
• Moscow State University / Russia
• National University of Singapore / Singapore
• Novosibirsk State University / Russia
• Osaka University / Japan
• Politechnika Bialystok / Poland
• Pusan National University / Korea
• Simon Fraser University / Canada
• Südwestfälische Fachhochschule / Germany
• Taipei University / Taiwan
• TFH Berlin / Germany
• Tianjin University / China
• TU Chemnitz / Germany
• TU Hamburg-Harburg / Germany
• TU München / Germany
• TU Wien / Austria
• Uni Augsburg / Germany
• Uni Bamberg / Germany
• Uni Bonn / Germany
• Uni Bruchsal / Germany
• Uni des Saarlandes / Germany
• Uni Dortmund / Germany
• Uni Erlangen / Germany
• Uni Essen / Germany
• Uni Frankfurt / Germany
• Uni Hagen / Germany
• Uni Hamburg / Germany
• Uni Hannover / Germany
• Uni Heidelberg / Germany
• Uni Hildesheim / Germany
• Uni Jena / Germany
• Uni Kaiserslautern / Germany
• Uni Karlsruhe / Germany
• Uni Köln / Germany
• Uni Leipzig / Germany
• Uni Linz / Austria
• Uni Lüneburg / Germany
• Uni Magdeburg / Germany
• Uni Mannheim / Germany
• Uni München / Germany
• Uni Münster / Germany
• Uni Oldenburg / Germany
• Uni Osnabrück / Germany
• Uni Potsdam / Germany
• Uni Regensburg / Germany
• Uni Salzburg / Austria
• Uni Stuttgart / Germany
• Uni Tübingen / Germany
• University Budapest / Hungary
• University Complutense of Madrid / Spain
• University of Bristol / United Kingdom
• University of California San Diego / USA
• University of Chicago / USA
• University of Chile / Chile
• University of Copenhagen / Denmark
• University of Cranfield / Australia
• University of Debrecen / Hungary
• University of Delaware / USA
• University of Illinois / USA
• University of Kansas / USA
• University of Liege / Belgium
• University of Moscow / Russia
• University of Nebraska at Omaha / USA
• University of Neuchatel / Switzerland
• University of Palermo / Argentina
• University of Phoenix / USA
• University of Pisa / Italy
• University of Science & Technology Lung/Hwa / Taiwan
• University of Southern California / USA
• University of Tel-Aviv / Israel
• University of the North / South Africa
• University of Warsaw / Poland
• University Szechenyi István / Hungary
• US Navy Postgraduate School / USA
• Warsaw University / Poland
• WHU Koblenz / Germany
• WU Wien/Austria