Recap: Digitalization, Diversity and Genuine Inclusion
Bridging differences, finding similarities: For this year's Berlin Science Week, we invited gender and diversity experts from different backgrounds to...
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Recap: Students take a critical look at AI as part of Berlin Science Week
“I have the feeling that by using AI intensively, we could unlearn our own cognitive abilities,” said one student, summarizing his experiences with...
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Tilman Santarius takes over the position as managing director of the German Climate Consortium
Tilman Santarius took over the position of managing director of the German Climate Consortium (DKK) on September 16, 2024. Tilman Santarius was...
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Change of leadership at the ECDF: Tabea Flügge and Martin Gersch succeed Gesche Joost as dual leadership
The members of the Einstein Center Digital Future have elected a new Board of Directors. The official start of the two-year term of office was October...
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ECDF Annual Report 2023 is online
On April 1st, 2023, the ECDF launched the second funding phase "New Generation", in which the research focuses on the areas of "Integrated Health",...
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Until 31 October 2024: Submissions for the ECDF Award for "Digitalisation and Diversity"
31 October 2024 is the deadline for the ECDF Gender & Diversity Network's annual award for ‘Digitalization and Diversity’.
The prize is awarded to...
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Tenured: Timm Teubner takes up professorship at TU Berlin
Timm Teubner is officially a W3 professor at TU Berlin since October 7th, 2024. With his appointment, the industrial engineer is also launching the...
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Recap Workshop: Empowerment of young female scientists
What are the difficulties of being a woman in Tech? What are the most discouraging behaviors from the opposite gender? How does being a woman impact...
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Recap: Satellite imagery in an era of global crises, surveillance, and misinformation
At a time when we think everything can be made visible, how do we know that what we see is true? Satellite imagery has indeed enabled greater...
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ECDF director Gesche Joost elected new president of the Goethe-Institut
ECDF director Gesche Joost will be the new president of the Goethe-Institut. This was decided by the Executive Board of the Goethe-Institut at a...
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Future technologies up close: That was the Long Night of Science 2024
There was a lot stirring on the streets of Berlin on June 22, 2024: around 30,000 visitors who wanted to get to know Berlin's research mingled with...
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Prize Nomination: „Narrative Futures: Panchatantra Fables meet Personal Primer“
The project “Narrative Futures: Panchatantra Fables meet Personal Primer” by ECDF-Professor Daniel Hromada from the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK...
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Daniel Fürstenau Appointed Professor at Freie Universität Berlin
Effective June 1, 2024, Daniel Fürstenau will join Freie Universität Berlin as a Professor of Business Administration in the School of Business &...
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Recap re:publica 2024 - Digitalization meets care work
Climate crisis, demographic change, consequences of war - our society will be characterized even more by care work in the future. How can we think...
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ECDF enters into cooperation with Inria
The ECDF and Inria, the French research institute for computer science and automation, are entering into an official partnership to promote and...
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Bettina Liedtke to head the ECDF management office
The ECDF has a new managing director: Bettina Liedtke has been in charge of the ECDF office at the Robert Koch Forum since May 1, 2024. Bettina...
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Philipp Staab accepts appointment to professorship at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
On 12 March 2024, Philipp Staab accepted the appointment of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to the permanent professorship "Sociology of Work, Economy...
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Application Start: Deep Tech Award 2024
Applications and Nominations for the Deep Tech Award 2024 can now be submitted. We are looking for application-oriented and tried-and-tested software...
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Case study: Networked hospital - new tensions and new alliances
The hospital sector is undergoing a digital transformation. Between 2021 and 2025, the German government is investing 4.3 billion euros in the...
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Recap: Concert "Quantum Tunes" Pushes Boundaries of Music and Technology
On January 30th, 2024, the concert "Quantum Tunes: Mind and Wiggle" held at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) marked a groundbreaking fusion...
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David Bermbach follows call to the TU Berlin
ECDF Professor David Bermbach has accepted an appointment at the Technical University of Berlin as of December 20, 2023. He will head the Scalable...
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Andrea Cominola receives the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award by EGU
Andrea Cominola, ECDF-Professor and member of the Board of Directors, receives the 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for the...
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Job offer: Employee Events/PR (E11)
The office of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) is looking for an employee in administration (events/PR) - pay group 11 TV-L Berlin...
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ECDF @ Berlin Science Week 2023
"Dare to know" is the motto of this year's Berlin Science Week. As usual, the international science festival will take place from November 1 to 10,...
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Tagesspiegel: 100 most important minds in science in Berlin
In October 2023, the Tagesspiegel chose the 100 most important heads of science in Berlin, who particularly shape the research landscape of the German...
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Recap: Exhibition Opening "Unblackboxing”
On October 13, 2023, the Einstein Center Digital Future opened its doors for the opening of the art exhibition "Unblackboxing. Artistic investigations...
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New research project iOLE: Intelligent Online LEakage detection to reduce water losses
Digital solution to save water: on September 1, 2023, the new project "iOLE - intelligent Online LEakage detection" started under the leadership of...
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Status Quo and Outlook - How Digital is the German Energy Transition?
Data sufficiency, digital business models, environmental impacts of digital applications - what is the status of the digitalization of the...
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Next career step: Florian Tschorsch follows call to TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Florian Tschorsch has accepted the call to the professorship for "Privacy and Security" at the Institute of System Architecture at the...
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Transparent urban development: BBBlockchain presents final report
Transparency is key for successful urban development and participation processes - over the past few years, the BBBlockchain project has used real...
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ECDF Annual Report 2022 is online
Five more years of digitalization research: The successful evaluation was certainly the biggest milestone in 2022. Beyond that, it was again a...
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Best Graduate Student Paper at EWRI 2023: Ivo Daniel wins 2nd place
HEIBRiDS-PhD candidate Ivo Daniel has won the second place award in the Graduate Student Paper Competition at the 2023 World Environmental and Water...
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Sina Born übernimmt Leitung der Geschäftsstelle des ECDF
The ECDF has a new managing director: Sina Born has been heading the ECDF office at the Robert Koch Forum since June 1, 2023. Most recently, she was...
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The Einstein Center Digital Future has a new Board of Directors
The members of the Einstein Center Digital Future have elected a new Board of Directors for a term of two years. The Board of Directors of the ECDF...
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This is How Sustainable Digitalisation Works - Bits & Bäume Book gives 28 Impulses
From artificial intelligence and the environmental impact of the digital economy to global justice: the digital transformation presents numerous...
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Recap: Science in the digital future - Responsible AI or disinformation at scale?
Artificial intelligence systems have become an ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. In particular, recent advances have reignited discussions about...
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Exhibition: Berlin - Capital of Female Scientists
After stops like the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the exhibition "Berlin - Capital of Female...
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Dr. Berit Greinke has been appointed professor at the Berlin University of the Arts
Dr. Berit Greinke has been appointed professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. She thus takes up the first tenured professorship to emerge from...
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Spotlight on STEM: Girls' Day 2023 with Cornelsen
Examples of how exciting STEM disciplines are in everyday life, contact with professional role models and exchanges with female politicians were all...
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Next Generation: ECDF enters second funding phase
In this second funding phase, the more than 30 ECDF professors will conduct future research on the new focus areas of "Integrated Health,"...
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ECDF sucht neue Geschäftsführung (m/f/d)
The Einstein Center Digital Future is looking for a new managing director at the earliest on 01.04.2023. Application deadline is March 10, 2023. The...
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Deep Tech Award 2023 - submit applications now!
This year, the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Labor is once again presenting the Deep Tech Award. For the eighth time in a row,...
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WiWo Ranking: Prof. Timm Teubner repeatedly among top researchers in business administration
In the current ranking of business administration researchers by WirtschaftsWoche, ECDF professor Timm Teubner repeatedly performs well: In the...
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Heinz Pampel takes up ECDF Professorship for Information Management at HU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Heinz Pampel is concerned with the role of digital research and information structures in science in the context of the digital...
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Recap: Science in the Digital Future – Academic Publishing and Digital Privacy
Data about research and researchers has become an integral part of the scientific publication process: when searching for literature, researchers...
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ide3a Smart City Hackathon: Digitalization of Critical Urban Infrastructures
Starting today, 50 students are hacking again at ECDF for sustainable cities: From November 30 to December 2, 2022, the ide3a Smart City Hackathon...
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First German quantum cloud for industrial users: Adrian Paschke part of the consortium
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection is commissioning a consortium of leading German technology companies and...
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Recap:National 5G Energy Hub Network Meeting
Changes are necessary to implement the energy transition, including the transition from a centralized to a decentralized energy system: On October...
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New Project: Interwoven Sound Spaces – being present in multiple spaces.
Making music together in different places - The new artistic project Interwoven Sound Spaces explores possibilities of telematic music performances...
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"Anpassung": New book by ECDF Prof. Philipp Staab on the leitmotif of tomorrow's society
Higher, further, faster - climate change, inequality, and the exhaustion of the self are putting the brakes on the belief that tomorrow's world will...
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ECDF Working Paper #2: Changing the Nature of ‘Things’
In the second paper of the ECDF Working Paper Series "Changing the Nature of 'Things'", authors Tomas Diez and Stephanie Hankey argue for a complex...
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Future-IoT Summer School: Internet of Things meets Autonomy
The Internet of Things connects everyday objects – smartphones with Bluetooth speakers and smartwatches – but also networks medical devices with each...
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Report Launch: Digital Reset
After four years, the 2nd Bits & Bäume international conference on digitalization and sustainability takes place from 30 September to 2 October 2022...
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New professorship: Hanna G. Zimmermann studies the eye with the help of innovative digital technologies
Detecting multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, stroke or cardiovascular diseases in the retina of the eye and observing them as they progress -...
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ECDF Annual Report 2021 is online
New professors, hands-on interdisciplinary research at Wissensstadt Berlin and the submission of the evaluation report - the year 2021 offered...
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Paper: Cost-effective measures to reduce energy consumption in private households
In a joint study by researchers from Aachen and Berlin, including ECDF Professor Rita Streblow (TU Berlin), the scientists evaluate easy-to-implement...
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Rebecca D. Frank accepts call to University of Tennessee-Knoxville
After three years as ECDF Professor of Information Management at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu...
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Successful evaluation: Another five years of digitalization research at the ECDF
In a digital walk-through in February 2022, professors and board members had presented the research at the ECDF and their visions for the next...
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Tourism must become sustainable: How data science can help
The Social Data Science Collaboration between Prof. Dr. Timm Teubner, Professor at TU Berlin and ECDF, and Fabian Braesemann from the Oxford Internet...
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Anniversary of the Ahr Valley flood disaster: Prof. Dr. Lars Gerhold as expert in the Interior Committee
Almost exactly one year after the flood disaster at the river Ahr in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, the event as well as the future...
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Long Night of Digitalization Research
How can water consumption be reduced with digital solutions? How can heart disease be better detected using digital technologies? These and other...
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Call for Applications: "IoT meets Autonomy" PhD School
The Future-IoT PhD School celebrates its 5th anniversary this year and invites you to the Einstein Center Digital Future with the theme "IoT meets...
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Call for Participation: Bits & Bäume Conference 2022
This year, the Bits & Bäume Conference will take place in Berlin from September 30 to October 2, 2022. In addition to the Einstein Center Digital...
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LILA: Algorithm identifies and localizes leaks in water supply systems
Open the tap, march the water: Drinking water is the most important basic food. Water supply networks ensure that consumers are continuously supplied...
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Thomas Ramge is new Associate Member at ECDF
Dr. Thomas Ramge, non-fiction author and science journalist, has become an Associate Member at ECDF in April 2022. He researches and writes on the...
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Lydia Kaiser wins FTAfelicitas Award
Every year, Femtec Alumnae e.V. awards the FTAfelicitas Prize to accelerate the advancement of women in STEM professions and send a signal that women...
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ECDF Launches Working Paper Series on Digitalization
Whether transformation of the working world, cryptocurrency or electronic textiles - Digitalization affects almost all areas of our society. The ECDF...
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SimRa wins German Bicycle Award
The ECDF project "SimRa" (Safety in Cycling) has won the German Cycling Award 2022. Prof. Dr. David Bermbach accepted the award at a digital award...
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AI for students: AI-SKILLS project launched
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer limited to technical areas. In ECDF professor Elisabeth Mayweg's AI-SKILLS project, students from...
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Digital Implantology: Andreas Schwitalla takes up new professorship at ECDF
New professorship on Digital Implantology: On December 1, 2021, Dr. Andreas Schwitalla follows the call of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and...
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Interview: Why we need to rethink risk in digital data preservation
As a society, we are generating an ever-expanding amount of data. From historical collections and government archives to vital scientific research,...
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Eight more doctoral positions at HEIBRiDS
The graduate program Helmholtz Einstein International Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS) has announced eight additional fellowships for PhD...
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Recap: Industry Forum Systems Engineering
Our everyday life is increasingly characterized by intelligent technical systems and products. The development of these complex systems is a joint...
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Interview: "Data in itself is not a protected good"
ECDF-professor Max von Grafenstein (University of the Arts Berlin) is a scientific supervisor at freemove, a transdisciplinary project exploring...
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Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost is a new member of the Executive Board of the Goethe-Institut
ECDF board member Gesche Joost was elected as a member of the Goethe-Institut's Presidium at the end of November. The term of office of the new...
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Prof. Dr. Agathe Merceron is new board member at ECDF
Prof. Dr. Agathe Merceron is a new member of the board of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). Since August 2021, the professor of computer...
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ECDF Annual Report 2020 is online
Major interdisciplinary research projects, international conferences, regional events - all this was planned for 2020, but much had to be cancelled,...
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Recap: "Sustainable digital transformation? Opportunities and risks for people and the climate".
Sustainable, digital transformation - can it succeed? In the second edition of the new ECDF format "One Room - Four Perspectives" on October 28, 2021,...
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Lydia Kaiser is a member of the BMVg's Digital Council
Since May 2019, the Digital Council has been supporting the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in its digital transformation. June 2021 saw the start...
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Event: Sustainable digital transformation? - Opportunities and risks for people and the climate
Streaming services, video calls, cryptocurrency - the digital transformation is in full swing and affects everyone in all areas of life. In the second...
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Review: Politics of the Machines – Rogue Research
Within the international Politics of the Machines conference series – following Copenhagen (2018) and Beirut (2019), the third POM conference took...
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New research project: Robots in everyday life
Whether robot vacuums or robot lawn mowers - the first automated helpers have long since arrived in German households. With the increasing...
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Prof. Meske takes up professorship at Ruhr University Bochum
After four years as ECDF Professor for "Digital Transformation and Strategic Information Management" at the Einstein Center Digital Future and Freie...
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Quantum memory in orbit
To enable the quantum internet, researchers at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), the DLR Institute for Optical Sensor Systems (DLR-OS),...
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Follow-up Report: Wissensstadt Berlin 2021
Science for everyone - this was the motto under which the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) presented itself in the past weeks at Knowledge City...
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New ECDF event format: One Room – Four Perspectives
Current developments in digitization from different perspectives - this is what the new event series "One Room - Four Perspectives" of the Einstein...
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Survey on the impact of COVID-19 on higher education teaching in Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities, which are still largely analog, to rethink their teaching practices: "The Covid situation was...
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Prof. Guillermo Gallego is recognized as Outstanding Associate Editor by IEEE
Every year, the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) recognizes distinguished service as Outstanding Associate Editors and Reviewers for their...
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Third International Workshop on Event-Based Vision (CVPR 2021)
ECDF-professor Guillermo Gallego (TU Berlin) was one of the organizers of the latest workshop on event-based vision, a technology which allows...
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Dutch royal couple visits TU Berlin
During their three-day state visit to Berlin on July 7, 2021, the Dutch royal couple learned about the topic of "photonics" at TU Berlin. Together...
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Whitepaper: Digital skills in the Tunisian labor market
Tunisia wants to combat the country's high unemployment rate with a digital strategy. But which digital skills are actually in demand on the Tunisian...
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Wissensstadt Berlin 2021
Science for everyone, to participate and touch - "Knowledge City Berlin 2021" tells the story of research, knowledge and coexistence in the capital....
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Crowdboost re:publica: A digital strategy for Berlin
What could a digital strategy for Berlin look like? On May 25, together with the Senate Department for Economic Affairs and Energy and (inter)national...
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Prof. Tom Brown appointed PI at ECDF
On May 07, 2021, Prof. Tom Brown was unanimously appointed Principal Investigator (PI) by the Board of the Einstein Center Digital Future.
Tom Brown...
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Action Day: Einstein macht Schule
On June 18, scientists invite students to look directly at their fields of research. Together with other young people, students will explore a variety...
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Recap: International Symposium “European approaches towards a Sustainable Digitalization”
How can digitalization be shaped in a way that nurtures common goods and respects planetary boundaries? At the International Symposium “European...
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DIALLS: Strengthening the cultural competence of students
Under the leadership of researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, scientists and teachers from 9 countries have developed and tested open...
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First ECDF doctorate: PhD student Maik Hesse defends dissertation
In March, Maik Hesse successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the topic of trust, reputation and data sovereignty in the digital platform economy....
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Research Project: Digital Transformation
More flexible working hours, work locations, working methods - for some, this has quickly become part of everyday life with the onset of the Corona...
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ECDF Industry Forum: Digital Health in the Aging Society – Are we prepared?
Digital applications and technology are already an integral part of diagnostics, therapy and communication between doctors and patients in the...
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Textiles and Sound: The Future of Opera?
What might the opera of the future look like? What potential lies in digitization? What role does artificial intelligence (AI) play? These are the...
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ECDF affected by attack on IT systems at TU Berlin
Following an attack on various IT systems at TU Berlin on the morning of April 30, 2021, the servers of the centrally managed Windows environment were...
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Prof. Lars Gerhold appointed PI at ECDF
On March 10, 2021, Prof. Dr. Lars Gerhold was unanimously appointed Principal Investigator by the Board of the Einstein Center Digital Future.
As a...
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SimRa now available in the southwest
In the Berlin area, many cyclists have already registered with SimRa. Now, Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk (SWR) is launching a major campaign: cyclists...
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Objective data? Feminist approaches for more balanced information
Neutral data and objective information are supposed to enable us to understand the past and shape the future. But can data and information really be...
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Prof. Philipp Staab awarded Hans-Matthöfer-Preis
ECDF Professor Philipp Staab has been awarded the Hans Matthöfer Prize for Economic Publishing for his book "Digitaler Kapitalismus - Markt und...
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Digitalization and Sustainability: New issue of OekologischesWirtschaften
A solution to pressing sustainability challenges? Or an impediment to the socio-ecological transformation? The impact of digitalization on...
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Professor Danilov Co-PI in SFB/TRR 190 "Rationality and Competition
The Transregional Collaborative Research Center 190 (SFB/TRR 190) "Rationality and Competition" will receive funding from the German Research...
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Digital Engineering 4.0: Lydia Kaiser takes up professorship at ECDF
New professorship on the digitalization of industry: On March 1, 2021, Dr.-Ing. Lydia Kaiser will follow the call of the Technical University of...
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Award: "Best Paper" at IARIA conference
The paper When Privacy Protection Meets Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring: Trade-off Analysis and Privacy Schemes via Residential Energy Storage",...
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Prof. Anastasia Danilov becomes part of the Berlin School of Economics faculty
ECDF Professor Anastasia Danilov has joined the faculty of the Berlin School of Economics (BSE). "The BSE has an excellent program for PhD students, I...
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Expert Commission: Shaping Digitization in a Gender-Equitable Way
Almost two years ago, ECDF professor Timm Teubner was appointed by Federal Minister Franziska Giffey to the expert commission on the German...
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Industry Forum: AI and the future of work
Will artificial intelligence (AI) completely transform the world of work as we know it today? This and other questions were addressed at the sixth...
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Survey: Use of AI-based HR tools in companies
In a recent survey, ECDF professor Anastasia Danilov (Humboldt University of Berlin), together with Dr. Marina Chugunova (Max Planck Institute for...
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Using water sustainably thanks to OpenData
Heat, drought, then again extreme precipitation - the last few years have presented Berlin with a variety of water-related challenges. At the "Berlin...
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Now: TV Studio opens at ECDF
Zoom meetings, online conferences, virtual hackathons: since the beginning of the Corona Pandemic, digital formats have taken up the majority of...
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Felix Balzer is head of the Institute for Medical Informatics at Charité
At the beginning of the year, Professor Dr. Dr. Felix Balzer took over a lifetime W3 professorship in Medical Data Science at Charité -...
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Prof. Timm Teubner among Top Researchers in Business Administration
In the current business administration researcher ranking of WirtschaftsWoche, ECDF professor Timm Teubner does score well twice: Among researchers in...
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Security Research Online: Visit the Future Security Lab virtually
Usually, the Future Security Lab at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) offers hands-on research: Current research results on civil security are...
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Innovation in University Teaching: Prof. Hromada has been awarded
Prof. Dr. Daniel Hromada has been awarded one of four Senior Fellowships for "Innovation in University Teaching" by the Stifterverband. The ECDF...
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Folding Residency – join a virtual conversation
As part of the project ‘Pleated Electronic Textiles’, ECDF-Prof. Berit Greinke and the Wearable Computing team at Berlin University of the...
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Berlin Water Hackathon 2021
On January 25 and 26, 2021, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) in cooperation with the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and...
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Prof. Kao is a member of the new state advisory board for digitalization
Prof. Dr. Odej Kao, Spokesman of the Board of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), has been appointed to the new State Advisory Board for...
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“Best Short Paper in Track” in ICIS 2020
The paper “Understanding the Affordances of Conversational Agents in Mental Mobile Health Services” written by ECDF- Professor Christian Meske, Ireti...
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Talk with Prof. Al-Ani: Corona as parting of the ways
Ayad Al-Ani about utopias and Covid teachings
From e-learning to tracing apps: All over the world there have been and still are many different...
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Coronavirus: Web app calculates the potential risk of infection via aerosol particles
Aerosols loaded with SARS-CoV-2 are believed to contribute significantly to the spread of the corona pandemic. With the addition of L for ventilation...
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Berlin Science Week Event on "Sustainable Digitalization in Urban Areas"
"1 City– Countless Challenges – 3 Institutions of Digitalization Research – Many Opportunities": Under this motto, the Einstein Center Digital Future...
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Interactive Data Feminism Workshop
We would like to draw your attention to the Data Feminism Workshop, which is hosted by ECDF Prof. Rebecca Frank in the upcoming WS 2020/21.
Following...
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ECDF-GIZ Online Symposium #1
The Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and its flagship...
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ECDF Annual Report 2019 is online
Writing the 2019 Annual Report in times of social distancing was a special situation for us. At the same time, it was exciting to see what our...
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Project studies e-textile sensors and gesture following technologies
An orchestra conductor’s motion constitutes a distinctive form of non-verbal communication, combining standardised instructions with personal...
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Lecture Series "Digital Future" starts Nov. 4th
"How to become a Data Scientist (in 3 steps)" is the title of the first lecture of the series of lectures "Digital Future" in the winter semester...
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06.11.2020Hello Diversity! Digital Hackathon
We would like to draw your attention to the hackathon on "Gender Equality in the Workplace", which is co-organized by ECDF Associate Prof. Janina...
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Module Digitalization of the accompanying research on energy system transformation
To support the networking of all projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) in the Research Field Energy in Buildings and...
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COVID-19: Effects on the use of water and electricity
When COVID-19 hit Europe in Spring 2020, it had massive impact on our daily life. Nearly all European countries implemented quarantine and...
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ECDF: AI Project receives 2.3 Million Euro in Funding
Artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to contribute to climate and environmental protection. With the initiative "AI Lighthouses for the...
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Prof. Lucia received call at TU Dortmund
After more than three years as Assistant Professor for "Internet of Things for Smart Buildings" at Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and...
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Online Panel: Digital cooperation with the ‘South’
In the framework of the DAAD Conference “Moving target digitalisation: re-thinking global exchange in higher education”, the Berlin Center for Global...
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Prof. Rabe is a member of the Smart City Strategy Advisory Board
The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller, has set up a Smart City Strategy Advisory Board and named its members – including ECDF Professor Jochen...
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ECDF study: Trust in AI Systems
Many of us use AI systems every day. Especially when using Assistive Artificial Intelligence (AI) in particularly responsible professions such as...
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ECDF scientists rank 3rd in international competition
The international research team "Leakbusters" has won 3rd place in the BattLeDIM 2020, an international competition on leakage detection and...
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Research project analyzes gigwork platforms
Whether Uber, Deliveroo or Airbnb – in the gig economy, these online platforms are used to contract out orders at short notice to self-employed or...
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Prof. Staab examines the political economy of AI
How do AI technologies affect politics, economy and science as well as the German economic structure? These and other questions are explored in the...
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SimRa: The first results for Berlin are published
The SimRa research project published the first results for Berlin in August 2020. Since the start of the project, 18,350 trips have been recorded and...
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Webinar: Reducing the Gender Gap in Science
We would like to draw your attention to the following webinar, at which our ECDF Professor Dr. Helena Mihaljević will also speak.
Measuring and...
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Prof. Santarius in the podcast series #AskDifferent
Tilman Santarius is certain that digital change must be socially and climate-friendly. In his podcast, the Professor of Social-Ecological...
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Digital Roundtable / African Makers Against COVID19
In collaboration with Africa Open Science & Hardware (Gameli Adzaho) and the Weizenbaum Institute, and in dialogue with the GIZ Togo and Ghana, our...
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Stadtmanufaktur: Virtual exhibition is now open
The Stadtmanufaktur, an initiative founded by ECDF Professor Jochen Rabe, among others, together with the Technical University of Berlin and the...
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ECDF Industry Forum: Changing working world
How far has the transformation to digital processes in companies already progressed? What advantages and disadvantages result from this and, above...
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#AI4care Datathon
Corona has shown how vulnerable our health systems are to crises. Nursing in particular is doing an enormous amount of work here. Help us to make our...
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Online survey: Smart Home in spring 2020
Does the corona pandemic have an impact on users' attitudes towards smart home devices? ECDF Professor Rita Streblow is currently investigating this...
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Juliane Siegeris is a new member of the ECDF Executive Board
Prof. Dr. Juliane Siegeris is a new member of the Executive Board of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). The professor of software engineering...
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ECDF produces parts for corona protection equipment
A large part of the population is currently making their first experiences with mouth and nose protection masks. For hospital and nursing staff, these...
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Regulating the Sharing Economy: A Field perspective
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirchner (ECDF) and Elke Schüßler took a close look at the principle of Sharing Economy. In their article "Regulating the Sharing...
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Only one room left! How scar intentions on hospitality platforms
Prof. Dr. Timm Teubner (ECDF) and Antje Graul have investigated how references to travel platforms via only a few available accommodations affect the...
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Coronavirus: ECDF cancels all events
Due to the overall situation created by the coronavirus, no events will take place at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) until July 20, 2020,...
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Prof. Rabe becomes head of Center of Competence for Water
Professor Jochen Rabe – currently Professor for Urban Resilience and Digitization at the Berlin Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) – will be the...
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How humans react to humanoid robots
What emotions does a humanoid robot trigger in humans? A research team headed by ECDF Professor Daniel Fürstenau (FU Berlin) is currently...
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"Women in STEAM" started successfully
The initiative "Women in STEAM" by the researchers of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) has been successfully launched. About 50 guests...
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Oxford-Berlin: New Collaboration
Prof. Dr. Timm Teubner from the Einstein Center Digital Future and Fabian Braesemann from the Oxford Internet Institute have initiated the new Social...
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HEIBRiDS offers 10 fully-funded PhD positions
The graduate program HEIBRiDS (Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science) offers ten fully funded doctoral fellowships...
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Prof. Meske wins Paper-a-Thon at ICIS 2019
Prof. Dr. Christian Meske together with Niklas Kühl from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jodie Lobana from McMaster University...
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Guillermo Gallego is new IEEE Senior Member
Prof. Dr. Guillermo Gallego from Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and Technische Universität Berlin has been elevated to the grade of Senior...
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02.12.2019SimRa has five new parter regions
The research project "SimRa – Safety in Cycling" by ECDF Professor David Bermbach continues to grow: Cyclists inside five new partner regions can now...
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10 Years: Forschungsforum Öffentliche Sicherheit celebrates at ECDF
The Forschungsforum Öffentliche Sicherheit celebrated its tenth anniversary at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) on November 25, 2019. The...
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Livestream F-LANE Demo Day at ECDF
Today, the Demo Day of F-LANE, the Vodafone Institute Accelerator for Female Empowerment together with Impact Hub Berlin and the Social...
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A robot as an ambassador for digital innovations
How can a robot inspire bank customers for innovative ideas? How can artificial intelligence be used meaningfully in this context? Since October 2019,...
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ECDF-Professors get involved in the "Stadtmanufaktur" project
The strategic "StadtManufaktur" project of the Technischen Universität Berlin will be financed with 250,000 euros from the "CityLAB Berlin" funding...
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"In the future, digital identity should be approached more from an interdisciplinary perspective"
Leaders in culture, politics, academia and industry from 23 countries met on November 8 – 9, 2019 in Berlin for the World Frontiers Forum (WFF) –...
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On Streaming, Social Bots and Sustainable Consumption
How can bots be used meaningfully in university teaching or in companies? Can artificial intelligence be sustainable? These and many other questions...
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Climathon 2019: “Flowmetrics” wins ECDF Challenge
“Flowmetrics” developed a solution for a dynamic urban flood flow management for cities. With this idea the team won the Challenge of the Einstein...
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International Scientists enrich digitalization research
The internationalization of Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) moves forward: The five new professors Emmanuel Baccelli, Michelle Christensen,...
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Forum Bits & Bäume: KI für nachhaltige Entwicklung?
Autonomes Fahren soll den Arbeitsweg angenehmer, datenbasierte Verbrechensvorhersagen Städte sicherer, intelligente Spracherkennung das Erlernen von...
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Digital global health is the key to high-quality health care
Every year, 100 million people worldwide are pushed into extreme poverty. The reason is their lack of protection against the financial dangers that...
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HEIBRiDS initiates further PhD positions
The Graduate Program Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS) has published a new call for proposals for...
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Citizens discuss networked mobility
Whether car sharing, rental bikes or taxi apps – the networked mobility processes numerous user* data. Prof. Dr. Max von Grafenstein, Timo Jakobi, Jan...
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Job Offer: Professorship Digital Engineering 4.0
As part of the Einstein Center Digital Future Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty V - Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems -...
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Climathon 2019: ECDF supports ideas against global warming
On October 25, 2019 people from all over the world will meet for the Climathon. During the 24-hour climate hackathon, they will work together on new,...
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Digital Capitalism and Enterprise Software
Leading digital companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Alibaba are currently increasingly focusing on expansion in the area of enterprise...
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SimRa: Television team accompanies test drive
Even if accidents don't always happen, dicey situations are not uncommon for most cyclists in Berlin. The research project "SimRa – Safety in Cycling"...
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RBB reports about SimRa
Even if accidents don't always happen, dicey situations are not uncommon for most cyclists in Berlin. The research project "SimRa - Safety in Cycling"...
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Reviewers Impressed by ECDF
The Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) has made an impressive start in the two years since its opening: Highly qualified and competent professors...
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Data analysis: Students present the first results
Accident black spots, traffic density, main routes: Students of the Mobile Cloud Computing department of the TU Berlin have analyzed and evaluated the...
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Survey: Majority Wants Clearer Boundaries for Digital Companies
67% of people in Germany think that politicians should establish clearer boundaries for large digital companies, a survey by the Friedrich Ebert...
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Livestream: Forum Open:Education
"Open Education for a Digital Society" is the title of the event, which will take place on June 26, 2019 at the Einstein Center Digital Future. With...
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LNDW: Great interest in the SimRa project
Prof. Dr. David Bermbach and his team presented their project "SimRa - Safety in Cycling" at the Long Night of Science in the Einstein Center Digital...
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Visitors Experience the Digital Future
Around 300 guests visited the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) during the Long Night of the Sciences (LNDW) 2019. In the House of Digitalization,...
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LNDW: SimRa will present the first results
The research project "SimRa – Safety" in bicycle traffic will be presented on June 15, 2019 at the Long Night of the Sciences (LNDW) at the Einstein...
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Livestream: „Revisiting Collections“
New strategies for communicating art and culture in a digitalized world will be the focus of the symposium "Revisiting Collections" on June 4 and 5 at...
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SimRa IOS App released
Now even more cyclists can participate in the Citizen Science project "SimRa". The app developed as part of the research project is now also publicly...
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ECDF professors conduct research at the new Berlin Open Lab
The Berlin Open Lab opened on Tuesday, 28 May 2019: The lab is a new place for digital research at the interfaces between experimental design,...
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Research Project “Privacy Icons”: Citizens Help Shape Data Protection
Whether shopping online, keeping on top of what’s happening in the world or booking their next trip, users have their personal data processed each...
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Equal opportunities report: Timm Teubner is a member of the expert commission
Federal Minister for Women's Affairs Dr. Franziska Giffey has appointed Prof. Dr. Timm Teubner to the Expert Commission for the Third Equality Report...
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Two years of digitalization research at the Einstein Center Digital Future
Whether it’s electronic textiles, cybercrime, AI-based procedures in medicine or road safety for cyclists, scientists from various disciplines conduct...
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SimRa App released
The developers of the research project "SimRa" are happy to announce that their app is now publicly available in the Google Playstore. The first...
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A stronger emphasis on the needs of elderly patients undergoing surgery
Regardless of the type of surgery – hip replacement, bone-fracture treatment or tissue removal – patients older than 65 are especially prone to...
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Gender Gap in Science
Professor Dr. Helena Mihaljević (ECDF/HTW Berlin) is part of the “Gender Gap in Science” initiative. On February 18 – 19, 2019 she organized a...
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ECDF takes further steps to advance digitalization research
With its establishment of four new professorships, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) is bringing together the most diverse disciplines and...
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Research project SimRa enters beta test phase
From 2017 to 2018, the number of cyclists killed on Berlin’s roads increased from nine to eleven. Passionate cyclist Professor Dr. David Bermbach...
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Future Security Lab ist offiziell eröffnet
Das Future Security Lab (Zukunftslabor Sicherheit) im Einstein Center Digital Future ist eröffnet. Im Rahmen einer gemeinsamen Sitzung des...
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Ideas for Berlin residential districts
During the Hackathon "Urban Data - Mind the Gap" in the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), students developed ideas on how residential districts...
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HEIBRiDS: Call for Applications
The Helmholtz Einstein International Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS) invites applications of PhD candidates for fellowships in the research...
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Rita Süssmuth supports professors of digitalization research
Rita Süssmuth is the new Ambassador of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). At the New Year's reception of the interdisciplinary research...
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Students develop digital solutions
How can neighborhoods in Berlin be further developed? What role does public transport play in this? Three professors of the Einstein Center Digital...
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13 doctoral students start their research
The first 13 PhD students of the Graduate School Helmholtz Einstein Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRiDS) have started their research...
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New members at the Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board of the ECDF has two new members since November 9, 2018. Prof. Dr. Juliane Fluck is professor for "Intelligent...
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New impulse for digitalization research
New impulse for digitalization research: Berlin's universities have started the new winter semester with five additional professorships at the...
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How wearable technologies could help in patient follow-up
Fascinating and entertaining insights at the Pairing Research Talks: Five professors of the Einstein Center Digital Future discussed their research...
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Look, feel, experience: The future of security
Research, hands-on: The Civil Future Security Lab informatively and innovatively showcases
recent work under the BMBF framework program on Research...
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Adam Wolisz is ECDF Fellow
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Adam Wolisz has been a Fellow at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) since October 2018. He was born in 1950 in Gliwice, Poland....
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ECDF is expanding its spectrum
Newly appointed: Professors research in the field of digital education, electronic textiles, digital communication and data
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“In Germany, we're very sensitive when it comes to big data”
Professor Dr. Steffen Augsberg is looking ‘with cautious optimism’ towards the digital future. The Professor of Public Law at Justus Liebig University...
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Three new professors at the ECDF
The Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) is pleased to announce another stage in its growth: three more professors have been appointed to positions...
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