Category: Promoted

Resilience by orchestrating citizen-driven innovation through digital platforms in urban-rural constellations (ROBIN)

We are investigating how the resilience of municipalities in their respective regional interdependencies can be improved by orchestrating citizen-driven innovation. The focus is on exploring design knowledge for an open digital…

Resilient Regulation for Digital Markets (RESREG)

The project aims to navigate the trade-off between specificity and generality in regulation, particularly in dynamic digital markets, by developing resilient principles for interoperability regulation. This interdisciplinary…

Exploitative leadership in digital collaboration – resilience for employees, leaders and digital communication tools (ELDiCO)

The project analyzes the use of digital communication tools in leadership practice and investigates their potentially destructive effects. The aim is to identify key mechanisms and, building on this, to develop resilience-enhancing…

Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment (ToxicAInment)

This project brings together theories of entertainment, visual communication and toxic speech to understand how and why toxicity becomes more permissible when it is masked as entertainment. It deploys AI methods to identify,…

Data Donations and Digital Nudges for Sustainable Behavior Change

The project DataDonations4SustainableChange is dedicated to the question of how awarenessand willingness to donate data can be promoted by means of digital nudges in order to achieve sustainablebehavioral change in the areas…

Green Data, Indicators, Algorithms: Connecting Smart Cities and Sustainable Finance

The project explores biases, implicit theories of change and implications of existing sustainability measurement and valuation models and generates against the background of this analysis new regionally, spatially and institutionally…

The Influence of Humorously Intended Communication on Political Decision-Making in the Context of Climate Change

KLIMA-MEMES investigates the influence of memes (humorously intended texts/pictures/videos shared online) on political decision-making in the context of public discourses about an adequate handling of climate change.

Real-time earth Observation of fOrest dynamics and biodiversiTy (ROOT)

In the course of accelerated climate change, provisioning of digital information on dynamics in forests plays a key role for climate change-appropriate and sustainable forest management. ROOT aims to develop a geoinformation…

Coding Public Value: Public service media and software for the common good

The project investigates the possibility of exercising media policy through the development of software. The focus is on developing a software for public media platforms that not only serves business models but also considers…

Learning from the ‘frontrunner’? A multidisciplinary analysis of the Chinese Social Credit System and its impact on Germany

The project investigates the opportunities and risks derived from China’s SCS-driven digital transformation.