Energy transition is one of the biggest social transformation processes: the structure of the energy system and the way we use energy are changing... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

STELEC, short for Sustainable Textile ELECtronics, is an interdisciplinary research project funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) under the... read more »

“More than 1 and 0 – How AI shapes the lives of young people” shows the award-winning documentary “Uncanny Me”. Afterwards, experts and students will... read more »

Bridging differences, finding common ground in times of political polarization? Gender and diversity experts from different backgrounds discuss and... read more »

The ECDF's two new funding formats for the period until March 2028, namely “Research Projects” and “Research Circles”, provide the framework for... read more »

„Common Ground“ is the motto of this year's Berlin Science Week.  As usual, the international science festival will take place from November 1 to 10,... read more »

On October 21st, 2024 the kick-off event of the series “Quo Vadis - Open Science in Berlin and Brandenburg” will take place as the opener of the Inter... read more »

From 18th to 19th October 2024, the workshop on the study of the reconstruction of the Hugo Helbing collection and the whereabouts of the missing... read more »

The joint meeting of the National 5G Energy Hub (N5GEH) will take place at ECDF on October 18, 2024. The National 5G Energy Hub (N5GEH) is a... read more »

On October 17th the AWO Bundesverband e.V., together with Agora Digitale Transformation gGmbH, are organizing a parliamentary evening at the Einstein... read more »

On October 16th, 2024, the Global Digital Last Mile Health Lab at Charité Center for Global Health Berlin together with the Digital Transformation for... read more »

In an increasingly digitalized world, cyber attacks and security risks are omnipresent and pose a serious threat to companies, institutions and... read more »

The ECDF General Assembly will be held on October 10, 2024 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. All members of the ECDF (Professors, Research Associates,... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

On 26th September, 2024 at 6:30 p.m., Meike Hopp, junior professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and associate member at the ECDF, will give a... read more »

The Una Europa Student Congress organized by the Freie Universität Berlin is a place for students to connect with peers from all 11 Una Europa... read more »

From 18th-20th September 2024, Elisabeth Mayweg, ECDF-Professor of Digital Knowledge Management in Study and Teaching at the ECDF and at the Humboldt... read more »

On 13th September 2024, the Calliope Day is taking place at the ECDF. From 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. everyone who is interested as well as specialists from... read more »

The European Union's AI Act has been passed and must now be implemented in its member states. In a "Bits and Bäume Policy Lab" we want to reflect on... read more »

On 10th September, 2024 at 11:45 a.m. Tilman Santarius, professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and ECDF, will give a keynote speech on the... read more »

At a time when we think everything can be made visible, how do we know what we see is true? What are the opportunities and limits of satellite imagery... read more »

On 9 July 2024, everything at the ECDF will revolve around the networking of industry and science. At our networking event "Industry meets... read more »

On Monday, July 1, 2024 at 3 pm, ECDF Professor Daniel Fürstenau and colleagues invite you to the launch event and symposium of the BISE special issue... read more »

On June 28, 2024, a workshop on research data will take place as part of the project "PID reference model for versioning research data". The project... read more »

How do your biases affect your leadership, career and work environment? Most of us think, that we act and decide very rationally. But we all have... read more »

Speaker:  Matteo Valleriani (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/ TU Berlin/ Tel Aviv University/ BIFOLD), Oliver Eberle (TU Berlin/... read more »

The Long Night of Science will take place again in Berlin on June 22, 2024. From 5 p.m. to midnight, numerous scientific and science-related... read more »

We live in a moment of comprehensive datafication. Due to digital technologies, ever more aspects of our lives and the planet can be measured,... read more »

Speaker: Rafael Ballester-Ripoll, IE School of Science and Technology (Madrid)   Low-rank decompositions of matrices and tensors periodically return... read more »

On 11th June 2024, Meike Hopp, ECDF Associate Member, will be part of the AHRC-funded network "Making Museum Professionals". Prof. Dr. Meike Hopp is a... read more »

Inria and the Einstein Center Digital Future have joined in a partnership with the goal of fostering scientific exchanges between the two institutions... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

This lecture held by Tabea Flügge, ECDF Professor for "Digital Technologies for the Reconstruction of Complex Facial Defects" at... read more »

Between May 29th and May 31st, 2024, the "MACHN24 - FESTIVAL FOR TECH, BUSINESS & ART" takes place in Leipzig, a pulsating festival that offers... read more »

What do PIMS, consent management and §26 TTDSG and the new EU regulation on transparency and targeting in political advertising have in common? Data... read more »

re:publica will take place again in Berlin from May 27-29, 2024. Our researchers will be there this year, too, with talks, panels and workshops on the... read more »

The 0. symposium on promoting reading in the age of artificial intelligence will take place at the ECDF on 22. May. The symposium is organized by ECDF... read more »

On Wednesday, 22nd May 2024, 4 p.m., Max von Grafenstein, University of the Arts Berlin and ECDF will speak on the topic „We do not protect data, but... read more »

ECDF Professor Rita Streblow will present research results from both her Berlin and Aachen research groups at the Berlin Energy Days on May 15, 2024.... read more »

The modern digital landscape allows conspiracy theories and hate speech to spread with unprecedented speed and reach. This makes it increasingly... read more »

Climate crisis and an increasingly digital world - will this combination end up being a curse or a blessing for our planet? Can the solution be even... read more »

On March 18, 2024, at 8 pm, Philipp Staab, ECDF Professor of Sociology of the Future of Work at the ECDF and Humboldt University Berlin, will be seen... read more »

How important are ethical standards in the collection, use and analysis of personal data by artificial intelligence? Their importance has been... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

On February 27, the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA) kicks of its Hackathon at the ECDF. The doctoral researchers of all six... read more »

On February 22, 2024 at 4:40 pm, Ayad Al-Ani, Associate Scientist at the ECDF, will give a keynote speech at Domain Pulse 2024.  The Domain Pulse is a... read more »

Does digitalization reduce the burden on the environment or does it increase it on balance? This question is the subject of extensive research. For... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

On 1 February 2024, the Alliance for Future Education - an initiative of German non-governmental organizations from the fields of education, youth,... read more »

As quantum computing technology looms on the horizon, on January 30th, 2024, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) presents an unprecedented... read more »

On Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 4 p.m., Alexander Loeser, Berlin University of Applied Sciences, will speak on "Representing Patients and Predicting... read more »

On Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 4 pm, Nathan Kutz, Washington University, will speak about "The future of governing equations" as part of the lecture... read more »

On December 7th, 2023, the international workshop "Digital Mapping of Contemporaneity, Activism & Ecology" will take place at the ECDF. It... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

On Nov. 30, 2023, a workshop on monitoring research data publications will be held from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. via Zoom. The workshop will be led by ECDF... read more »

On November 23nd, 2023, a workshop on key issues related to the generation, utilization, and management of existing data in healthcare will take place... read more »

Self-driving cars, robots that operate on the open heart, or software that writes award-winning novels - all this has long been a reality. Man has... read more »

Andrea Cominola is ECDF professor and director of the Sustain.LAB. On Nov. 10 from 9:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m., he and his team will present over 15... read more »

On 8 November 2023, the BLUE PLANET Berlin Water Dialogues will take host an online conference under the motto "Closing the Loop - Circular Water... read more »

Innovation in the Arts: On November 8, 2023, as part of Berlin Science Week, the University of the Arts Berlin, Roman Lipski Studio and the Goethe... read more »

On November 08, 2023, the Goethe Institute Ireland will host a performance and discussion on innovation in the arts and the potential of quantum... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

How much data does a person leave behind every day? What do we actually know about it, how much of ourselves do we actually want to disclose, and... read more »

"Dare to know" is the motto of this year's Berlin Science Week. As usual, the international science festival will take place from November 1 to 10,... read more »

As part of the Berlin Science Week, ECDF professor Janik Wolters offers an exciting Escape Challenge on November 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 from 2pm-6pm. The... read more »

From October 25-26, 2023, the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam will host the clean-IT Conference. The clean-IT Conference is an international... read more »

In the winter semester, the lecture series "APPLYING DATA SCIENCE" of the HEIBRiDS Graduate School will take place. Every two weeks, data science... read more »

On October 18, 2023, HateAid, the German Women Lawyers Association (djb) and the Federal Association of Women's Counseling Centers and Women's... read more »

For the first time the Einstein Center Digital Future has invited artistic projects that investigate the conditions of digital societies, providing a... read more »

As part of the research project "Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online" of the Centre for Research on... read more »

On October 11 and 12, the 4th INRIA/DFKI Workshop will take place at ECDF. The workhsop will focus on topics including Trusted ActGPT, Education and... read more »

All ECDF Professors and Associate Members are invited to the monthly brownbag meeting.  Time: 12:00 to 13:30 Place: ECDF read more »

The Edit-A-Thon: "Diversity in Wikipedia articles on library and information science" will take place on October 6th, 2023 from 10 am to 4 pm in the... read more »

PEMWN is the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks. PEMWN is a scientific... read more »

As part of the Open Access Days, the satellite conference "Science-led Open Access Publishing" will take place on 26 September 2023 at the Institute... read more »

The first network meeting of the BMBF funding line "Making repositories and AI systems usable in everyday care" will take place on 26 and 27 September... read more »

The conference "'F for Forgery'. Falsified Provenances in Literature and its Sciences", of the German Literary Archives Marburg on 21.09.2023 and on... read more »

On September 21, the Stiftung Datenschutz will host a "DataBreakfast" at which ECDF Professor Max von Grafenstein will give a keynote address on "Priv... read more »

On 14 September 2023 from 6 p.m. onwards, representatives from nursing, medicine, industry and patient representatives will meet at the Einstein... read more »

The FairTecHR project addresses the need to concretize the auditing of high-risk systems in personnel selection. For this purpose, the researchers... read more »

The second BIFOLD Weizenbaum Summer School, taking place from September 11th to September 15th, 2023, aims to explore the intricate relationship... read more »

The Cornelsen SummerUni 2023 will take place from Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1 p.m. to Friday, Aug. 25, 3 p.m. As part of the Summer Uni, Cornelsen will be... read more »

The ECDF General Assembly will be held on July 10, 2023 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. All members of the ECDF (Professors, Research Associates, Associated... read more »

On July 4 and 5, 2023, the Fraunhofer Institution for Industrial Engineering invites you to the Future Forum 2023. Over the course of two days in... read more »

On July 3rd, 2023, ITG and Plattform - Charité Versorgungsforschung invite you to the Einstein Center Digital Future in Berlin to the workshop... read more »

Sara Nill and Elisabeth Steffen invite you to a live recording of their podcast "Female Tech Talk". Why do so few women study computer science and... read more »

How does greening land affect floodwaters and traffic? How can digital processes help restore facial bones after injury or destruction due to... read more »

Between Digitalpakt 2, Startchancen program and sobering education study results: What role can and does the federal government play? On June 12,... read more »

Invisible Labor and Discrimination: Gender, Diversity and ChatGPT Critical Perspectives on AI – Challenges and Pathways In the context of AI... read more »

After stops like the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the exhibition "Berlin - Capital of Female... read more »

In the summer semester, the lecture series "APPLYING DATA SCIENCE" of the HEIBRiDS Graduate School will take place. Every two weeks, data science... read more »

On April 18th, /2023, ECDF Chair Gesche Joost will speak with our Associate Member and author Thomas Ramge about his new book, " Do You Want to live... read more »

Successful research at the ECDF is only possible through cooperation with our numerous partners from science, politics, business and society. On the... read more »

The digital transformation is also revolutionizing the world of finance and business: innovative money systems and financing solutions are becoming... read more »

The consequences of climate change and their mitigation also raise ethical questions, which the Ethics Council has also been addressing recently. On... read more »

Smart Water - Designing Water and Urban Greening for Climate: Integrating blue-green infrastructure and other planning aspects can mitigate the... read more »

On February 16-17, 2023, ECDF will welcome the workshop "Exploration of Needs, Goals, and Past Use of Digital Applications by Affected Persons of... read more »

In the webinar "How to evaluate and reduce the Gender Gap in Science?" hosted by the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science on February 14,... read more »

Cities around the globe have seen their mobility infrastructures transformed over the last decade. The upsurge of tech corporations in ride-hailing... read more »

On January 24st, 2023, ECDF-Professor Philipp Staab and the SINE Foundation will host a workshop for Graduate and post-doc students around the topic... read more »

Since the Industrial Revolution, the individual has been working and learning in hierarchies based on the division of labor. And this despite the fact... read more »

When people discuss the transformation of the world of work through digitization and automation, the focus is often on the fear that millions of jobs... read more »

On December 08 and 09, 2022, the German government invites to the Digital Summit under the motto "Data - Creating Digital Value Together". This year,... read more »

RegMed Forum: “Will AI Transform Regenerative Medicine?” Medical decisions are based on the analysis of diagnostic data with the aim of providing... read more »

On November 24 and 25, 2022, the ECDF will host the "Hello Diversity! Podcast and Paperthon-Event". This event series is an opportunity for PhD... read more »

Together with Elsevier, ECDF is launching a new series of panel discussions this fall: During the "ECDF and Elsevier Conversations on Science in the... read more »

The BLUE PLANET Berlin Water Dialogues are the global and established networking platform that brings together international stakeholders from... read more »

On November 8, 2022, Wikimedia Deutschland will present the new study on the German government's National Education Platform (NBP) at the ECDF. The... read more »

Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) invites you to the 2nd BfR Knowledge Dialogue on November 8, 2022, with the main topic "Trust". War,... read more »

Machines of the future are not intended to replace humans, but to support them. The goal here is to combine the respective strengths of humans and... read more »

Can Artificial Intelligence discriminate? As part of Berlin Science Week, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), the Weizenbaum Institute for the... read more »

Hate and incitement on the Internet are problems that concern us all, because they endanger democracy and pluralism. The emergence of parallel public... read more »

Seventy-seven years after the liberation of Auschwitz, antisemitism is still being expressed both publicly and violently. In recent years, the... read more »

In the winter semester, the lecture series "APPLYING DATA SCIENCE" of the HEIBRiDS Graduate School will take place. Every two weeks, data science... read more »

Four academics of the TU Berlin on the turntables will create a great atmosphere after the official first semester welcome. Among them are: Prof. Dr.... read more »

"WÆ - Womxn from arts to engineering" - This year's two-day virtual festival is all about innovations from arts to engineering for a just future! The... read more »

On 04 October 2022, 9 am to 11 am, ECDF will host a lecture by Dr. Cecilia Rikap, City University London, on "The Rise of Intellectual Monpoly... read more »

Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Bits & Bäume-Konferenz 2018 sind die Themen Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit heute in unserer Gesellschaft so präsent... read more »

After four years, the 2nd Bits & Bäume international conference on digitalization and sustainability takes place from 30 September to 2 October 2022... read more »

On Sept. 29, 2022, the public lecture of the "Ernst Schering Prize for Outstanding Research in Basic Biomedical Research" winner will take place at... read more »

A discussion at re:publica a few years ago revolved around the question of whether the Arab region, which is affected by digitalization, would not... read more »

The Human Brain Project has launched a webinar series that focuses on the various topics being worked on by the HBP scientific community. The one-hour... read more »

The digital workshop on "Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Existing Buildings - Challenges in Refurbishment" is organized by the working group... read more »

The third Qurator Conference will provide a forum for the use of digital curation technologies in use cases such as media, journalism, logistics,... read more »

For its 15th anniversary, the Netzwerk Junge Ohren e.V (NJO) is organizing a "Thinking Workshop" at the ECDF. Moderated by Christoph Brosius,... read more »

Why is a diversity strategy important in human resources? What are the challenges and opportunities presented by the use of technology in personnel... read more »

The Future-IoT PhD School celebrates its 5th anniversary this year and invites you to the Einstein Center Digital Future with the theme "IoT meets... read more »

The summerschool "Philosophy of Mathematics Beyond the Armchair?!" on experimental methods in the philosophy of mathematics takes place at the... read more »

Finally, another long night for research and amazement: The TU Berlin presents a diverse program for young and old with experiments and hands-on... read more »

Bei der Veranstaltungsreihe Cornelsen Impulse diskutieren Vertreter*innen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Zivilgesellschaft und Wissenschaft die politische... read more »

Green Consumption Assistant – Wird Konsum nachhaltiger durch den Einsatz von KI? 22.06.2022 // 13:00  Uhr // online Wie nachhaltig kann Konsum... read more »

ECDF PI Prof. Dr. Martin Gersch hat für Freitag, 17. Juni 2022, Prof. Dr. Tilman Santarius für einen Gastvortrag an die FU Berlin eingeladen. Prof.... read more »

On 08 June 2022, the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland will hold a symposium on the topic of "Man.Machine.Algorithm - Digital Education and... read more »

Die Professur Gersch des Departments Wirtschaftsinformatik der Freie Universität Berlin / Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) freut sich, Prof. Dr.... read more »

Das ECDF veranstaltet am 23. Mai 2022 von 16 bis 19 Uhr in Kooperation mit dem DFKI und dem Berlin Open Lab das Networking Event "Transforming... read more »

Im Webinar "Deploying AI with confidence" am 17. Mai 2022, 18.00 - 19.00 Uhr, besprechen Expert*innen die Frage, inwiefern die Wissenschaft dazu... read more »

In the webinar "Deploying AI with confidence" on May 17, 2022, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m., experts will discuss how science is helping to increase confidence in... read more »

On May 13th, 2022 from 6.00 pm onwards, the The Digital Arabia Network is hosting a panel discussion at the ECDF. The  great resignation has forced... read more »

The multi-platform event DRAFTS invites researchers and designers to discuss the importance of artifacts for the experimental research and development... read more »

While some Corona measures have already been relaxed, the Sars Cov2 virus remains with us for now. How can rising incidences be quickly detected in... read more »

On April 28, 2022, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., the Institute of Medical Informatics at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin invites you to the digital... read more »

The event is part of the series "Historical Judgment" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. In the 4th symposium of the series, aspects of the... read more »

Opening of the Spring Sustainability Days at KIT 2022: ECDF professor Tilman Santarius opens the Spring Days of Sustainability at KIT 2022 with his... read more »

Femtec.Alumnae e.V. awards the FTAfelicitas Prize every year to accelerate the advancement of women in STEM professions. The award is not only... read more »

On March 22, 2022, Resideo and the Italian University Poli.design invite you to the second edition of "Smart Water. Sustainable Water Visions." The... read more »