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ABOUT
Research advisory and professional education
We help clients determine which military needs and industrial opportunities to pursue, develop approaches to innovation and capability development, and design the organisational systems and partnerships needed to carry out that work. Through professional education, we equip people to investigate problems, develop alternatives and lead their application.
Clients commission us for studies that inform strategic decisions, strategic and organisational advice, and qualification programmes. An assignment can address entry into a new market, an operational problem, the design of an innovation organisation or the development of professional competence.
Aperion at a Glance
Founder-led.
Defence-native.
Research-grounded.
From active service through research and consulting to Aperion
Aperion Systems was founded by Dr. Florian Andresen and Dr. Benjamin Schulte. Florian served in the Bundeswehr for 19 years and Benjamin for 16 years, in a range of leadership appointments.
Their work spans doctoral research in strategic management and technology and innovation management, studies for the German Federal Ministry of Defence, and strategic and organisational consulting. They founded Aperion to bring this experience into a firm combining research, advisory and professional education.
That combination is reflected in Aperion’s Military Design Thinking programme: the development of TRACE and an accredited curriculum, followed by delivery of the first Practitioner programme in Hamburg in August 2026.
AoD Partnership
Aperion is an official partner of the Archipelago of Design.
Aperion-MDT courses are built on Aperion’s TRACE framework, delivered by Aperion, and lead to an Archipelago of Design Certificate. Aperion-MDT is designed to establish a structured certification pathway for Military Design Thinking practice in the European defence context.