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In March 2022, the international TA community will meet in Karlsruhe to discuss the digital transformation and its challenges for policy, society, economy, environment, and research. The Keynotes will be held by Payal Arora (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), Doris Allhutter, (Institute of Technology Assessment – ITA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)…

ITA researcher Alexander Bogner pleads for an interdisciplinary pandemic council - Barbara Prainsack: Science has become the topic of the day. Virologist Florian Krammer dared to "jump into the deep end".

What role does technology assessment play in the development and use of new technology? How relevant is it for political decisions in Austria? The ITA’s Michael Nentwich and Daniela Fuchs take a look at three decades of work and the highlights of technology assessment in Austria.

In co-creation and technology development, many gender roles and identities are still underrepresented. Ulrike Bechtold has investigated the significance of diversity for development processes as part of the EU project GoNano.

How do we protect ourselves in different blackout scenarios? How do Austrian companies position themselves globally in the area of cybersecurity? ITA and AIT are developing measures and answers for Austria's parliamentarians.

In the new Urban Europe project TRANS-PED, Sweden, Belgium and Austria want to contribute to a Europe-wide initiative for more plus-energy districts.

An international expert survey on Covid-19 and its consequences aims to identify new ways of dealing with the opportunities and long-term effects of the crisis in a meaningful way.

How can people in cities like Vienna and Graz shop more regionally? Do we know if the production of our food is sustainable? Mahshid Sotoudeh and her team are looking into these and other questions in the CITY.FOOD.BASKET project.

Opening-Keynote NTA9TA21: Philip Howard credits big tech firms for supporting the construction and spreading of misinformation campaigns by junk news services and social media.

How does innovation happen? Are good ideas born from individual genius, or are they the result of a collaborative thought process? Editors Karen Kastenhofer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson shed light on these and other questions in their new book "Making Sense of Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences".