![]() The successful urban transition lab “District Future – Urban Lab” plans to establish a “Transformation Center for Sustainable Futures and Cultural Change” in Karlsruhe. The project is funded by the KIT with 150.000 euros in the next year. more |
![]() Based on the ethics of Aristotle, Armin Bangert wants to confront relativistic positions in the debate on the German energy transition. His dissertation is part of the Kopernikus project ENavi – navigation system for the energy transition. more |
![]() On Wednesday, 22 November 2017, at 6 p.m. the next session of the ITAS series of events “technik.kontrovers” will take place. Scientists and the audience discuss about the role of science in uncertain times. more |
![]() Communication about activities and work results should be intensified. more |
![]() On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), an ITAS team researched the technical and social aspects and concepts of in vitro meat over a period of two years. The results are now available. more |
![]() Selecting an option for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste includes social processes and technological requirements which are inextricably linked. ITAS examines these mutual interdependencies in the SOTEC-radio project. more |
![]() Since September 2017, Karsten Wendland has been a visiting professor at ITAS. The media computer scientist addresses the subject of “artificial consciousness” in Karlsruhe, which is said to be the Holy Grail in the field of artificial intelligence. more |
![]() The water-energy nexus group at ITAS wants to consider wastewater no longer as waste but as a resource. The researchers motivated participants to change their perspectives at the most important water conference worldwide. more |
![]() How can highly radioactive waste be safely disposed of? Researchers from various disciplines will discuss this at the ENTRIA final conference in Braunschweig from 26 - 30 September 2017. ITAS participates with numerous talks. Citizens are invited to join. more |
![]() From now on the ITAS journal on technology assessment in theory and practice will be published as an open access journal by the publisher oekom. First topic of the re-designed and from now on peer-reviewed TATuP: Open science between hype and disruption. more |
![]() On 31 July and 1 August 2017, the ITAS, together with the Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management (University Stuttgart) organises an interdisciplinary workshop for modelling and assessing the urban water-energy nexus. more |
![]() On Wednesday, 28 June 2017, at 6 pm, the next session of the ITAS series of events “technik.kontrovers” takes place. The focus will be on the question of whether and how the great vision of autonomous driving will soon be realized. more |
![]() The TAB is looking for experts for the topics “Somatic Gene Therapy” and “Algorithms in Digital Media and the Impact on the Formation of Opinions”. more |
![]() Together with citizens and initiatives, researchers are developing ideas for more sustainability and quality of life in Karlsruhe’s Oststadt. The “Urban Transition Lab 131” was now honored by the German Council for Sustainable Development. more |
![]() ITAS will support the analysis of medical risks in the introduction of emergency data management (NFDM) on the electronic health card. more |
![]() District Future celebrates the involvement of four local “NachhaltigkeitsExperimente” on 21 May 2017. In addition, the photo exhibition “Gesichter der Nachhaltigkeit” will start on 6 June in the institute’s foyer. more |
![]() Promoting and interconnecting PhD theses on the supply of resources and energy is the aim of a joint course of lectures by ITAS and the Universities Stuttgart and Pforzheim. Now the PhD students officially started their work. more |
![]() Wastewater is much more than waste. At a public evening event on Thursday 11 May 2017, researchers at ITAS will demonstrate how new wastewater treatment strategies help save resources and improve the quality of life. more |
![]() As part of the Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes (GCSO), ITAS will participate in the sustainability training of urban managers. It will also advise partner universities on energy, water, and waste issues on the campus on a real-lab basis. more |
![]() The work program of the TAB for 2017/2018 was decided. It contains 10 new projects, for which the TAB has presented project concepts. They were approved by the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (ABFTA) of the German Bundestag. more |
![]() TAB is looking for experts in six different projects. Topics are (among other things) electromagnetic fields, sustainability assessment of agricultural systems, light pollution and autonomous weapon systems. more |
![]() Jürgen Kopfmüller and Markus Winkelmann from ITAS developed criteria for responsible research which were published in GAIA. The article now received the editors’ award of the journal for environmental and sustainability issues. more |
![]() On 6 and 7 May 2017 young researchers from the humanities and social sciences meet up at ITAS to examine the turn of the millennium as an efficacious reference point for future visions of all kinds. Registrations are still possible until 23 April 2017. more |
![]() On Monday, 27 March 2017, at 6 p.m. the next session of the ITAS series of events “technik.kontrovers” will take place. Scientists and the audience discuss how in future technology can be used for the benefit of all. more |
![]() The aim of the INOPRO project is to develop intuitively controllable prostheses which adapt to the needs of their users. ITAS supports the innovation process and analyzes the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of this technology. more |
![]() The ITAS project “Urban Transition Lab 131” was honoured with two awards by the German Council for Sustainable Development in February: with the “Project Sustainability 2017” quality seal and as one of four “Transformation Projects” in Germany. more |
![]() What is new in Europe’s TA scene? The third issue (winter 2016/2017) of the “International Corner” informs about the latest projects, publications and news from TA institutions all over Europe. more |
The environment in Chile is suffering from a high agricultural water demand. A German-Chilean network promoted by ITAS scientist Helmut Lehn is expected to improve this situation. A workshop in Santiago de Chile marks the beginning of this co-operation. more |
![]() How could native forests be better protected from the extreme impacts of climate change, and biodiversity be preserved? These questions are being addressed by the ITAS in cooperation with forestry scientists of the University of Freiburg. more |
The city of Karlsruhe and the Los Bancos canton in Ecuador have been working on joint climate projects for two years. An action plan which was developed with the aid of ITAS scientist Volker Stelzer shall be implemented step by step, starting in 2017. more |
![]() Companies in the EU still lack experience in RRI practices. The new PRISMA project, with eight Europe-wide industrial pilot projects, aims to show the added value of opening up the innovation process for social engagement and gender issues. more |
![]() The TOPIC of issue 3/2017 builds a bridge from technology assessment (TA) to agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS). The authors show for the first time the potential that lies in linking both areas. more |
![]() The TAB-Arbeitsbericht provides an analysis of the development, use and future design of participation offers at the German Bundestag. more |
![]() TAB study published on research and product development to combat neglected diseases. more |
![]() The new Themenkurzprofile of the TAB are short presentations of selected, up-to-date and TA-relevant topics. more |
![]() The aim of the TA pre-study was to provide an overview of the current state of the art of social bots, application fields and users, dissemination, and actual and assumed risks. more |
![]() For several years now, manufacturing processes and 3-D printers have inspired many fantasies about the product production of the future. The ideas about performance, application potential and the effects of additive production are correspondingly diverse. more |
![]() Sophie Kuppler, ITAS expert for nuclear waste disposal and governance, investigates in her Ph.D. thesis whether public participation approaches in Germany and Switzerland lead to a fundamental change in nuclear waste politics and policy. more |
![]() How can one learn about particular phenomena by using models? This is the central question of the recently published dissertation by Michael Poznic, a philosopher of science and technology from ITAS. more |
![]() The issue No. 48 of the TAB-Brief reflects the diversity of the topics, the investigation of which will be commissioned by the Bundestag to the TAB. more |
![]() The TAB-Arbeitsbericht No. 170 offers a comprehensive presentation of various initiatives of various players in research and product development as well as political possibilities for the promotion of this commitment. more |
![]() How flexible can nuclear power plants be operated and is their operation compatible with a high proportion of fluctuating feed-in through renewable energies? These key questions are addressed in the TAB-Hintergrundpapier Nr. 21. more |
![]() In his doctoral thesis Marc Dusseldorp develops a completely new perspective on the way to deal with conflicting goals of sustainability. Instead of decision-making or weighing procedures the ITAS researcher focuses on a scenario-based assessment. more |
![]() The Helmholtz Alliance ENERGY-TRANS has explored the energy transition from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book presents key findings of a research project on the transformation of the energy system. more |
![]() Climate and environmental protection are the key themes of Pope Francis’s Encyclical “Laudato Si’”. 25 researchers of various disciplines have now dealt with the Pope’s essay – among them Armin Grunwald and Christine Rösch from ITAS. more |
![]() Technology visions, future scenarios, development models: Different imaginations of the future are getting more and more attention in public discourse. Researchers now put the question how TA should deal with this development up to debate. more |