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ITA-Seminar: Stefania Sardo, postdoctoral researcher at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology

ITA-Seminar: Katharine Sarikakis (Uni Wien), Director of the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab and Head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence FREuDe

Will science and technology give us back the freedom we crave? Do all countries have equal faith in it? Together with politicians, european experts are looking for answers in a new report which will be presented on 9 November.

Thanks to electronic health records, 96 percent of all insured persons in Austria are "transparent" patients. ITA-researcher Tanja Sinozic pleads for a comprehensive evaluation of the risks and consequences of this new development.

Scientific expertise plays a central role in the Corona crisis. Where does politics stand in this? A new project investigates what challenges arise for policy advice in chronic crises.

Can we digitalise democracy? ITA expert Gloria Rose summarises the results of the 20th ITA Annual Conference collected by the ITA team in the new TATuP magazine.

What are the risks and potentials of nanomaterials and advanced materials? Where and how are they used? The ITA project NanoTrust, which has been running since 2007 and is entering a new research phase, is investigating these and other questions.

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.