Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is intended to strengthen data privacy protection in the European Union and came into force on 25 May 2018. This raises questions about what has changed in concrete terms and what has to be taken into account. Dr. Michael Friedewald, whose research focus at Fraunhofer ISI is on data protection and privacy issues, and who coordinates the Privacy Forum research consortium Forum Privatheit, answers the most important questions in the following interview.

Professor Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl, director of Fraunhofer ISI and Professor for Innovation and Technology Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, is now supporting the work of the research committee at the German Council of Science and Humanities.

Services and collaborative structures will dominate the economy more in future. Professor Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl, Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Chair for Innovation and Technology Management at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology KIT drew this conclusion when speaking to members of the Kaufmanns-Casinos e.V. in Munich.

The consortium of the EU project “Heat Roadmap Europe 4” is providing publicly accessible comprehensive data on the demand for heating and cooling in the EU. The free dataset features figures and analyses for all 28 countries. This can be used as a basis to further develop the EU’s heating and cooling strategy among other things.

The EU project EFFORTI, coordinated by Fraunhofer ISI, has developed an evaluation system to measure the effect of equality measures in the area of research and development (R&D).

Professor Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl was appointed to the selection committee of the Baden-Württemberg State Research Prize for a second four-year term of office from 2018 to 2022. The task of the committee is to select the prize winners for the State Research Prize and the Prize for Courageous Science which honor excellent research at scientific institutions in Baden-Württemberg.