Other News from Participating Centers

Wie ein molekulares Skalpell

Viele Anwendungen – ob in der Medizin, der Biotechnologie oder in der Landwirtschaft – erfordern die gezielte Abtötung unerwünschter Zellen. Denn diese Zellen können beispielsweise die Gesundheit gefährden, die Produktivität beeinträchtigen oder gewünschte biologische Prozesse stören. Die Herausforderung besteht jedoch darin, dies zu erreichen, ohne dabei andere Zellen zu beeinträchtigen.

Indonesia Issues Joint Decree of 7 Ministers on AI Governance in Education, Strengthens Cross-Sector Coordination

JAKARTA — Indonesia officially enacted the Joint Decree (SKB) of Seven Ministers on Guidelines for the Use and Learning of Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across formal, non-formal, and informal education on March 12, 2026. The policy establishes a foundation for cross-sector coordination while ensuring that the use of technology aligns with child protection principles and the improvement of learning quality.

The Neurotech Booth at RightsCon That Never Happened

What testing commercial neurotech has taught us, and why these technologies require informed engagement now.
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"Security vs. Interoperability" Arguments

Lebanon’s data security problem, explained

As the war escalates, the digital battlefield is proving just as volatile as the physical one putting civilian lives directly in the line of fire. 

Shared links can track you. Here is how to get rid of ad trackers

If you’ve ever wondered how platforms seem to know exactly where you came from, like prompting you to follow an account after watching a shared video, it’s probably due to ad trackers.

You’ve probably seen a link that looks normal at first, then keeps going: ?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spring_sale. All that extra text after the ? is an ad tracker.

Catherine Régis nommée à l’Ordre de Montréal

Le comité exécutif de la Ville de Montréal a entériné la nomination des 17 personnes qui se verront remettre, le 8 mai, les insignes de l’Ordre de Montréal. Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que Catherine Régis, chercheuse au CRDP, figure parmi elle et sera reçue officière.

Diplomatic Engagements and International Ties at the Department of English and AAU

Alison Grant, Canadian Ambassador to Austria, and Barbara Cullinane, Irish Ambassador to Austria, visited the University of Klagenfurt

AI between climate change and climate protection

How do climate change and artificial intelligence interact? How AI can help in the fight against climate change?
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New Publication on Monitoring as Knowledge Practice in a National Park

As global conservation policy focuses primarily on the expansion of protected areas, one may ask if and how protected areas contribute to the conservation of endangered species and habitats. The usual way to answer this question in the context of conservation is to regularly survey, or monitor plants, animals and ecosystems.

Defensio by Dunja Pucher

Dunja Pucher successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “On the Stable Set and Graph Coloring Problems: Semidefinite Relaxations and a Quantum Annealing Approach” on April 27, 2026. 

einBLICK: Nachrichten aus der JMU

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

Generative AI and the Music Industry: GEMA vs. OpenAI and SUNO

The idea of using the entire internet as a basis for AI training data represents an unimaginable technical effort with questionable benefits for the quality of the respective models, yet there are developers of generative AI systems who claim to have done precisely that – naturally without asking permission of the rights holders of the media content used, let alone sharing any profits with them.

Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches

Brazil and OKFN partner to enable citizens to ‘talk’ to national data

Together, we are developing a tool that will bring public data closer to citizens, allowing them to get data by simply asking a question.
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The Platform Doesn’t Speak Arabic. Women Are Paying for It.

The systems that govern speech online were not built for Arabic-speaking users. Women across the Arab world are paying the consequences.

Aliya Nasif was campaigning for re-election to the Iraqi parliament in October 2025, when someone used AI face-substitution tools to superimpose her face onto the body of a Ukrainian dancer in a video originally posted to TikTok in 2023. The resulting clip, framed as a pornographic scandal, was posted to X. 

Drei Fragen an das Team des bidt-Projekts Ethik in der agilen Softwareentwicklung

WWie lässt sich technologische Innovation so gestalten, dass ethische Verantwortung nicht auf der Strecke bleibt? Das bidt-Projekt „Ethik in der agilen Softwareentwicklung“ (EDAP) hat dafür nicht nur Problembewusstsein geschaffen, sondern konkrete Antworten entwickelt. Statt Ethik als nachgelagerte Prüfung oder moralischen Zusatz zu verstehen, rückte EDAP sie dorthin, wo über digitale Systeme tatsächlich entschieden wird: in den Entwicklungsprozess selbst.

Announcement: WORLDPLAY at the Commons Hub (June 7-13, 2026)

Our times are marked not just by a crisis of facts, but a crisis of reality production. Oligarchs, platforms, reactionary movements and attention entrepreneurs have learned to stage fantastic parallel worlds, exploit all manners of anxiety and alienation, and scale their fictions as power, while the once grander fictions of capitalism and democracy are becoming less relevant by the day.

Gates Foundation visit to Stellenbosch highlights catalytic funding and South-South learning in action

Two senior leaders from the Gates Foundation’s Africa team, Matshidiso Masire and Bahati Ngongo, visited the Policy Innovation Lab at Stellenbosch University to explore how the Foundation’s catalytic funding is unlocking further investment and impact. The visit also examined how the supported work is enabling practical learning between countries in the Global South.
Digital public infrastructure and South-South learning

Open Day at the University Archives | June 9, 2026

On International Archives Day, June 9, 2026, the University Archives (N.0.55) will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to answer your questions!
You’ve been carrying around questions about the University Archives for a long time that you’ve never dared to ask: What does a university archive do? What happens in the university archives? Why are university archives needed? Who hands over what to whom, when, and why?
Come to the University Archives’ Open Day and get answers to all these questions!
We look forward to your visit!