This is why knowledge transfer, exchange with non-scientific stakeholders and mutual learning are central to our self-image as the Weizenbaum Institute. We understand transfer as a mutual learning process that takes place in dialog with non-scientific stakeholders and attach great importance to a diverse debate. We create participative, co-creative, integrative and interdisciplinary formats so that as many people as possible can take part.
Our transfer strategy aims to provide evidence-based and value-oriented orientation, networking and infrastructure services for politics, business and civil society. At the same time, we are also continuously developing our research topics, methods and formats in dialog with scientific and social stakeholders.
Our diverse transfer activities can be systematized along the following pillars:
- Orientation services: Explaining and Advising
- Networking services: Mediating and Networking
- Infrastructure services: Developing and Designing
Explaining and advising
The Weizenbaum Institute provides various orientation services: It communicates its own research findings, determines the state of research on current issues and prepares the findings for a non-scientific audience. It also draws conclusions based on its guiding values of self-determination and sustainability and can advise stakeholders from politics, business and civil society with evidence-based and value-oriented recommendations for action.
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Weizenbaum Forum
With the Weizenbaum Forum series of events, we open up our institute to concerns and views from politics, business and civil society and invite a broad audience to exchange views on research issues relating to the networked society.
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People and Patterns
Every week in this videocast, Sascha Friesike provides sociological answers to life's big and small questions.
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artificial&intelligent
Scientists at the Weizenbaum Institute classify the latest developments in the field of generative artificial intelligence.
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Citizen Science: Education for the digital world
Our blog series in Citizen Science format provides insights into digital education in an international comparison.
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TechTalks
How are new technology trends impacting the economy? A podcast by researchers at the Weizenbaum Institute on artificial intelligence, chatbots and more.
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Purple Code
Weizenbaum researchers talk to activists, artists and researchers about the systems of power behind digital technologies. A podcast that gives a voice to previously suppressed perspectives on digitalization.
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Policy Papers
The Weizenbaum Policy Papers comprise scientifically based statements, position papers and briefings on current political issues and decision-making processes. They analyze problem areas and outline evidence-based positions and recommendations for decision-makers in politics, business and civil society.
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Mediating and networking
The Weizenbaum Institute is in close contact with its network partners and other stakeholders from politics, business and civil society. This dialogue is not only about the utilization context of science, but also about working out the relevance of topics, questions and challenges and reflecting them back into digitalization research. In addition, the Weizenbaum Institute sees itself as a platform and moderator for social dialogue on digitalization issues.
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Weizenbaum Debate
The Weizenbaum Debate opens the space for controversial but respectful debates on the major challenges of digital society. Besides experts, everyone interested in digital politics is invited.
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Weizenbaum Conference
The annual conference of the Weizenbaum Institute brings together experts from various disciplines and on topics such as artificial intelligence, responsibility and sustainability, or digital independence from around the world.
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Bits&Bäume
The Weizenbaum Institute is part of the largest German civil society alliance for a sustainable digital transformation, the Bits & Bäume Alliance
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Berlin Science Week
Every year, as part of the Berlin Science Week, the Weizenbaum Institute and its researchers present the significant and differentiated aspects of digitalization research to a broad audience.
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Pizza and...
At Pizza and... people from the political sphere meet our researchers to talk about current digitalization topics while enjoying a pizza.
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Policy Roundtable
Our policy roundtables bring together policy makers, scientists, and experts to discuss the regulation of digital technologies.
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Developing and Designing
The Weizenbaum Institute provides various infrastructure services for national and international digitization research. In addition, it provides infrastructures for encounters between research and social stakeholders and participates in the development of transfer formats. In this way, it contributes to the development and shaping not only of digitalization research, but of the digital and networked society itself.
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Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer
With the Weizenbaum Panel Data Explorer, you can search and analyze the results of the Weizenbaum Panel's annual survey on media use, political participation, civic norms and more.
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Index digital sovereignty
Digital sovereignty, i.e. the ability to shape and control the digital world, has now become very popular. However, although many political players can agree that digital sovereignty needs to be strengthened, it is often unclear how this should be achieved or demonstrated.
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Interdisciplinary Digitalization Research Cartography
The Weizenbaum Institute not only researches the digitalization of society, but also researches digitalization research itself. This comprehensive and carefully curated map provides orientation on interdisciplinary digitization research in German-speaking countries.
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