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Reading the AI Index 2025: Bridging Principles and Practicein Responsible AI

Report Breakdown – 9 – Reading the AI Index 2025Download

Author: Tjok Istri SintawatiEditor: Ayom Mratita Purbandani

Partners of the ActiPlex consortium meet in Groningen

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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Klagenfurt AI solves industry’s “hard problems”

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.

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

¿La información con la que decides puede poner tu vida en riesgo?: desinformación digital y trayectorias migratorias en México

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.

Director del Programa de Derecho, Ciencia y Tecnología UC integra delegación internacional sobre ciberseguridad en Estados Unidos 

El director del Programa de Derecho, Ciencia y Tecnología UC, Matías Aránguiz, fue seleccionado en el programa internacional Advancing Cybersecurity Innovation and PolicyA 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

195° Mercoledì di Nexa – Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI

What We Lose When Everything Is Summarized

Author: Hilman NurjamanEditor: Hosea ImmanuelLatumahina

Statement on the Global Innovation Index

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.

Innovating on how business meet global rules: a protocol to simplify sustainable trade

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.

Introducing our new visiting researcher: Laura Di Nicola

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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Jozefien Vanherpe on the trademark dispute between two Real Housewives of Antwerp concerning the Benelux word mark ‘maisonfemi’

Herz und Immunsystem im Blick: SFB forscht weiter

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.

Vacancy: Postdoc – Generative AI content moderation

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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Intercultural skills in demand among cultural tourism workers

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.

Standing together for the future of universities – demonstrations against the planned budget cuts

The University of Klagenfurt calls for a demonstration against cuts

The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.

Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

Auditing AI

USI Tennis Tiebreak Tournament

To kick off the tennis season on 13 May 2025, a tie-break tournament was held on the courts at USI Outdoor. The tournament was played in a single group. After just under four hours, the winner was Andreas ZOLLBRECHT. Second place went to Philipp KNEISSL. And Daniel BUGELNIG was delighted to take third place.
Thanks to Patrick OFNER for the excellent organisation. A big thank you also goes to Igor PAVLOVSKY for the superb court conditions.
 
See you next year!