Ein ÖAW-Symposium beleuchtet im Spiegel von Corona die Entwicklung des Impfwesens. Karen Kastenhofer (ITA) hält eine Session zu "Chancen aus der Pandemie".

We have transferred our video content from Vimeo to YouTube! In addition to the latest videos on nanotechnologies or the launch of the GlobalTA network, you can find reports and videos on blockchain, surveillance, delivery drones and many other ITA topics.

The Covid-19 pandemic completely changed Vienna traffic. Bike lanes and pedestrian zones popped up (and disappeard), and public transportation numbers dropped to 80 percent fewer passengers in 2020. ITA researchers Tanja Sinozic and Gloria Rose analysed these changes, and suggest we should keep some around.

Mass surveillance through biometrics, Covid's influence on the relationship between science and politics, search engines with bias, the risks of a large scale blackout - 2021 was an exciting year for technology assessment. Here are our most read research results.

Technology assessment focuses on issues such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and the effects digitization and the energy transition will likely have on Europe. Its priority is always the impact of technologies on the individual and on society, but it also assesses their environmental and economic implications.

ITA researcher Karen Kastenhofer asked experts around the world what needs to happen to make pandemics less likely in the future.