The Minister of Science of the State of Baden-Württemberg visited the FZI Research Center for Information Technology in Karlsruhe on Tuesday (September 3, 2024). This was a great opportunity for our researchers to present their current work on digital democracy. Among them was of course our research project SOSEC. But other projects such as DeFaktS (AI-supported detection of fake news) and Virtus (participation projects in urban planning with the help of virtual reality) were also presented. In an interview, the Minister expressed her enthusiasm for the innovative research approaches at the FZI: The research work at the FZI gives her hope for the future, said the Minister.

Events like this show that the FZI not only makes an important contribution to shaping digital democracy with its projects, but also produces knowledge on the pressing challenges that arise in this context in an innovative way. With the House of Participation (HoP), it also has an effective platform that bundles this work internally and, at the same time, acts as a hub that enables collaboration with various partners and the communication of findings up to the highest political levels. In this way, we ensure that the findings we gather in our projects, such as SOSEC, make a difference in political practice.

Watch the video clip from Baden-TV here (German)!