The German Bundestag continues to rely on TAB and the advice of ITAS in the new contract period [29.08.2013]

View of the domicile of TAB in Berlin, Neue Schönhauser Straße 10

In the next five years, ITAS will go on operating the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB).

The corresponding decision was already taken unanimously on 27 February 2013 by the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (ABFTA) of the German Bundestag. On that day, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), with its Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), was commissioned to operate TAB – under the lead of Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald – for another five years (from 29 August 2013 till the end of August 2018).

The renewed assignment of KIT / ITAS confirms the successful work of TAB in recent years and through the years. In the new contract period ITAS will cooperate with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in Berlin and the VDI / VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH in Berlin.

A presentation of the partners with their key research priorities and concepts, which will enrich the work of TAB, will be the focus of the next TAB-Brief (the journal of TAB) to be published in early 2014.