Titre : From Compliance to Innovation – Reforming the GDPR for Tomorrow’s Technologies
Auteurs : Yann Padova & Sebastian Thess
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Gender parity in the news? 30 years after The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (UNWOMEN, 1995), this is still a myth in the European Union. The call to revolutionise gender equality has certainly happened, yet without ever reaching gender parity, at least in the media. 
 

Interview with Diego García Ramírez
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. 

Vilma started her PhD at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) in January 2026. Her research focuses on the tension between algorithmic transparency, access to information for public interest research and blanket trade secrecy claims of private technology companies.
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Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Policy Innovation Lab is part of an international partnership that has formally handed over a policy report tracing the evolution of the G20’s digital agenda to South African government partners.
The handover event, held on 26 January 2026, was hosted jointly by the Policy Innovation Lab and the TUM Think Tank at the Technical University of Munich, in collaboration with the Global Network of Internet & Society Centers.

Bei der Forschung zu Lebensräumen bestäubender Insekten fristen Dörfer bislang eher ein Schattendasein. Das Projekt „Summende Dörfer" , angesiedelt am Lehrstuhl für Tierökologie und Tropenbiologie (Zoologie III) der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) möchte das ändern.

Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels steht nicht zuletzt die Landwirtschaft vor einer beispiellosen Transformation. Während Deutschland über Jahrzehnte hinweg kaum von massiven Ernteausfällen betroffen war, hat sich das Bild seit 2015 drastisch gewandelt. Seitdem sind Hitzewellen und Trockenperioden in der Hälfte aller Fälle für Ertragseinbußen verantwortlich.

On 24 February, Els De Busser (Associate Professor at IVIR and Programme Director of the Master Information Law) gave a presentation in front of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee).
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A great success for David HROVATH and the University of Klagenfurt. David won all three gold medals in Dienten am Hochkönig: gold in giant slalom, gold in slalom and gold in combined. Congratulations! David HROVATH had already made his mark at the European Universities Winter Championships in Val di Zoldo in 2025, winning the gold medal in slalom.
 
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Das neulateinische Theaterstück Cenodoxus (1602) von Jakob Bidermann kennen heutzutage nur noch einige Forschende aus der Latinistik und der Germanistik. Doch von 1930 bis 1960 war die Geschichte über den Kampf himmlischer und höllischer Mächte um die Seele des Pariser Gelehrten Cenodoxus im deutschsprachigen Raum am Höhepunkt ihrer Popularität: Akteure in Wissenschaft und Kultur lobten das Stück als lateinischen Hamlet oder Faust.

„Aktuelle Auswertungen zur Hitzetoleranz von Insekten wie Faltern, Fliegen und Käfern zeichnen ein differenziertes und zugleich alarmierendes Bild“, erläutert Studienautorin Dr. Kim Holzmann, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Tierökologie und Tropenbiologie am Biozentrum der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU).

With the recent escalation of Israel’s war, Lebanon’s residents have reported receiving threatening phone calls and text messages asking them to evacuate the buildings they are in. These messages have been reaching a large number of residents in a semi-random manner, an occurrence which was observed in the 2024 war. These threats have caused widespread panic among residents due to the fear inflicted by Israel’s consistent targeting of residential areas.

© aau/MüllerImagine if everything suddenly changed tomorrow. If a single win turned your life completely upside down. Precisely this dream of a radical new beginning was the starting point for an international research project in which Angela Fabris has been collaborating with Norwegian, Dutch, German, British and American literary, historical and media scholars over the past four years. The result is the anthology ‘Lottery Fantasies, Follies, and Controversies’, which will be presented at the Utrecht University Centre for Early Modern Studies on Friday, 6 March.

Am 4. März 2024 startete der an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) entwickelte Nanosatellit SONATE-2 ins All. Zum zweijährigen Jubiläum zieht das Team der Professur für Raumfahrttechnik um Professor Hakan Kayal nun eine durchweg positive Bilanz.

Eclipse du droit international, multiplication des heurts, interventions en Amérique latine, bombardements massifs au Moyen-Orient… Le monde fait péniblement les frais de la crise hégémonique de l’empire américain.
Le GREDEP vous invite à prendre de la perspective avec l’historien Samir Saul et le philosophe Michel Seymour, qui viendront présenter leur dernier ouvrage « Le conflit mondial du XXIe siècle » (Éditions L’Harmattan) et répondre aux questions du public le mardi 24 mars.

This month, Gabriela started as a PhD candidate at the Institute for Information Law (IViR). She holds bachelor’s degrees in Law and Philosophy from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a master’s degree in Information Law from the University of Amsterdam. After completing her studies, she worked as a junior researcher at IViR, contributing to projects on (decentralised) platform regulation, disinformation, freedom of expression, and the privacy and data protection implications of digital health initiatives for mobile populations.

If you just had a quick glance at the above image, you might think it was a screenshot from the latest hit show or nature documentary. But no—it’s one of the winners of this year’s Wiki Loves Earth photo contest.

For more than a decade, this volunteer-organized competition has been capturing the breathtaking essence of the planet’s natural heritage. Photos of all sorts of nature, from iconic national parks to hidden gems in local green spaces, are eligible.