On June 20th Prof. Christof Weinhardt, Dr. Jonas Fegert and Cosima Pfannschmidt met up with Marco Aurelio Ruediger, director of the School of Communication, Media and Information at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV ECMI) and Amaro Silveira Grassi, project coordinator at the same School.

We are currently in the process of working on a German-Brazilian Digital Democracy research center, as we are both working on the topics of disinformation, online social networks and polarization in democracies. To strengthen that partnership, a next step will be visiting FGV in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

FGV receives funds by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has ties with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

We are looking forward to working together!