Financing Post-War Circular Reconstruction: Digital Tools and Investment Pathways for Ukraine’s Industrial Regions
An article by Tetiana Gorokhova was published in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.
CAIS at re:publica 2026
Researchers from CAIS are represented at Europe’s leading conference on digital society, re:publica 2026 in Berlin. Their contributions focus on current debates around social media regulation for young people, vibe coding, deepfakes, and digital sovereignty through decentralized networks.
Tightening the Interconnection of Digitalization Research
At the annual meeting of the Network of Institutes for Digitalization Research in Hamburg, current priorities such as open science, interdisciplinarity, futures research, and transdisciplinary approaches as well as issues of cooperation and institutional structure were discussed, and further collaboration among the participating German research institutes was coordinated.
How Digital Media Reproduce Discrimination: Hate Speech, Visual Language, and Artificial Intelligence
Josephine B. Schmitt publishes a chapter inthe a new edited volume “Language – Power – Diversity: On the (Re-)Production of Difference and Belonging through Language”, addressing how language can make inequalities visible without reinforcing them.
CAIS at the Digitalization Working Group of the Städtetag NRW
At the March 2026 meeting of the Digitalization Working Group of the Städtetag NRW at ZenDiS in Bochum, questions of digital sovereignty were at the forefront. In this context, CAIS researchers Prof. Tim Majchrzak and Prof. Christoph Bieber were invited on March 24, 2026, to give an impulse lecture on the transformation of digital democratic discourses, providing insights into CAIS research.