A year has passed since Bread&Net 2025. The questions raised in those sessions: who controls digital infrastructure, who bears the cost of platform decisions, and what accountability actually looks like in contexts of war, growing authoritarianism and repression, have only grown more pressing.

Across two days, 620 people from 39 countries worked through those questions together: in sessions on AI and surveillance, platform accountability, legal strategies, digital sovereignty, and more.

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Author: Tjok Istri SintawatiEditor: Ayom Mratita Purbandani

The meeting of the ActiPlex consortium provided an opportunity to reflect on the project's final results and plan future collaboration.
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KKResearchers at the University of Klagenfurt have achieved a major breakthrough in automated problem-solving with “CheckMate”. This new AI-driven technology independently develops algorithms for complex combinatorial and optimisation problems – such as those encountered in the optimal planning of industrial plants and production processes – delivering significantly better results than existing methods for “hard problems” in industrial practice.

Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

Ciudad de México, México. 25 de mayo de 2026. Las tecnologías digitales forman parte central de las trayectorias migratorias contemporáneas. Un celular puede servir para pedir ayuda, encontrar una ruta, comunicarse con la familia o acceder a trámites migratorios y de integración. Pero también puede convertirse en un espacio de incertidumbre, desinformación y riesgos para la vida.

El director del Programa de Derecho, Ciencia y Tecnología UC, Matías Aránguiz, fue seleccionado en el programa internacional Advancing Cybersecurity Innovation and Policy – A Multi-Regional Project, iniciativa organizada por el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos a través del International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), que reunió durante dos semanas a expertos, autoridades y representantes de 22 países para intercambiar experiencias sobre ciberseguridad, políticas públicas, defensa nacional y cooperación internacional fre

10 giugno 2026 | MARK ALFANO (Macquerie University)
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Dear Members of the Portulans Institute Community,
The Global Innovation Index (GII) was conceived and developed by Professor Soumitra Dutta, who introduced it in 2007 as a tool to measure and advance innovation performance globally. Since its inception, Professor Dutta has remained closely engaged in the development and evolution of the GII over nearly two decades.

Global supply chains are currently navigating a regulatory maze consisting of more than 1,000 overlapping ESG standards and regulations worldwide. Managing these intricate compliance requirements creates trillions of dollars in hidden costs and severe administrative friction. Under traditional manual auditing models, identifying real non-compliance risk across jurisdictions remains like searching for a needle in a haystack.

IViR is pleased to introduce our new visiting researcher Laura Di Nicola.
Laura is a PhD candidate in Comparative and European Legal Studies at the University of Trento (Italy).
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Die Entzündungsreaktionen und immunologischen Prozesse, die bei verschiedenen Herzmuskelerkrankungen ausgelöst werden, werden im Würzburger Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) „Kardio-immune-Schnittstellen“ untersucht. Beteiligt sind Forschende aus Kardiologie, Immunologie, RNA-Biologie, Bioinformatik, Bildgebung, Nuklearmedizin und Pharmazie.

Help shape the future of AI governance in Europe. Join an ambitious research project on how platforms and providers moderate generative AI online content and how EU law can better protect fundamental rights in the digital age.
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aau/MüllerNicoletta Apolito is a communication scholar and doctoral researcher at the Centro Studi Interculturali dell’Università di Verona. Her work is rooted in a region that is home to just under one million people, yet welcomes around three million tourists every year. For her doctoral thesis, she interviewed cultural tourism workers in Verona and its surrounding region, asking them about their intercultural experiences and the challenges they encounter in their work.

The University of Klagenfurt calls for a demonstration against cuts