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Voluntary Year in Research (FJN)

Experience research after your A-levels? Apply now and experience science communication, digitalisation and exciting projects from September 2025.

Science under pressure

Funding cuts, political interference, shrinking trust: This call invites reflections on visible symptoms and underlying dynamics of the forces that alter academia.

When scientists are targeted, what helps?

At our KAPAZ workshop, researchers explored how to move from awareness to action. Read the summary on wissenschaftskommunikation.de.

Public Interest AI

On reset.org, researcher Theresa Züger explains why artificial intelligence requires a new approach to technology for the benefit of society as a whole.

Legal advice from AI: opportunity or risk?

Researcher Matthias C. Kettemann talks to ZDF about the question of whether AI language models are also suitable for answering legal questions. (In German)

It’s just maths!

For the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), HIIG researcher Theresa Züger categorises the current social debate on AI.

Resisting digital change at universities

A new open access paper by HIIG and CATALPA explores why digital transformation in universities meets resistance and calls for organisational strategies.

HIIG at re:publica 2025

Insights on disinformation, democracy and public-interest AI: The talks and panels by our researchers at re:publica are now available to stream.

Generative AI in market research

Georg von Richthofen and Hendrik Send write about new possibilities and technical, ethical and organisational challenges. (In German)

Artificial intelligence for social cohesion

Our researcher Theresa Züger talks about AI for the public interest on Deutschlandfunk podcast "KI verstehen". (In German)

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