Sally Boyani Mokaya has taken a leap into the unknown: she has travelled from Kenya to Germany to write her doctoral thesis at the University of Passau. Mokaya is part of the Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" (DPE), an interdisciplinary and international group of young researchers.
How will the future labor market look and are European education systems endowing the next generation with the skills they will need to succeed? These questions are at the heart of a new research project at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
What are the links between migrant career prospects and their working abroad in the EU? This was a guiding question of a research project coordinated by the University of Bamberg. The project aimed to develop a long-term approach to supporting migrant worker integration and combating labor shortages in the EU.
An international research team involving the University of Bayreuth has, for the first time, analysed the “inner workings” of AI language models when predicting political voting decisions. To do so, the researchers examined six national elections and AI-based election forecasts and developed a new method for making more precise predictions. They presented their findings at one of the world’s leading AI conferences, the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to significantly influence political debates. This suggests a new study by researchers from the University of Passau.
From June 17 to 19, researchers from around the world will gather in Regensburg to examine freedom, sovereignty, and dependence in a global context at the 2026 annual conference of the Leibniz Science Campus (LWC). Taking the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence as its starting point, the conference—titled “In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom,” will examine how moments of political self-determination—from the American Revolution through decolonization processes to the emergence of new states following the collapse of empires and the end of communism in Europe—have transformed political, social, and economic orders.
The Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World," located in Regensburg, supports an innovative, multidisciplinary, early-career research network focusing on the Bavarian/Bohemian border region, the Channel Islands, and the Georgian/Abkhazian border region.
Not all ideas from the social sciences that have the potential to improve society make it into practice. Through the new Catalyst GER program, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will support research teams that aim to achieve sustainable societal impact through a spin-off or other forms of knowledge transfer.
The Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI) today presented its annual report to the German government. The deputy chair of the commission is innovation expert Professor Carolin Häussler from the University of Passau. In its report, the Commission recommends, among other things, that funds for security and defence be used in a targeted, effective and efficient manner in order to leverage them as a catalyst for innovation. In this way, they can also become a strategic lever for technological progress, resilience and economic competitiveness.
The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) has granted funding to extend the interdisciplinary research network "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" until 2028. The initiative unites the University of Bayreuth with the Universities of Marburg and Erfurt along with the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI, Freiburg) to examine contemporary conflicts and peace-building efforts through a postcolonial lens and strengthen peace and conflict research in Germany.
