The "business" of the TAB is the levelheaded, balanced and thereby sometimes dry analysis - but at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag emphasis was placed on vitality.

ITAS has started two new TA collaborations within the framework of a long-standing collaboration with Russian universities.

The 25th anniversary of the TAB is celebrated on Wednesday, 2 December 2015 in the foyer of the Paul Löbe Building of the German Bundestag with a varied program.

"QuartrBack" aims at supporting people with dementia to lead a life as self-determined as possible. Since 23 October 2015, the joint project has been supported by an advisory board made up of experts as well as affected persons.

ITAS invites to a discussion on transport and energy in the city of the future on Thursday, 29 October 2015, the fourth evening of the "technik.kontrovers" series of events.

ITAS Director took over leading position at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The Professor of Technology Assessment wants to keep close contact with the Institute and the scientific TA community.

In the context of the TA project "Online citizen participation in the parliamentary work" a survey among all stakeholders - representatives of civil society organizations, citizens' groups, the media, business, science, government, or citizens - takes place.

What can urban districts learn from sustainability concepts that have proven themselves in ecovillages? Together with the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), the District Future invites citizens to discuss the topic at workshops in Karlsruhe.

ITAS participates in the development of an intelligent emergency chain that enables people with dementia as much as possible to live a self-determined life.

The TAB is looking for experts on the question, which concrete opportunities and potentials additive manufacturing processes do have for the business location Germany. Deadline for submitting tender documents is 13.07.2015.

ITAS is inviting to the third public event of "technik.kontrovers", Wednesday, 10 June 2015. The focus of the evening will be new technologies of food production and questions of responsibility in dealing with food.

Since March 2015, Rafaela Hillerbrand has been researching and teaching at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of KIT. The physicist and philosopher of science has moved from TU Delft to Karlsruhe.

The up and coming concept of Responsible Innovation promises new and better forms of research and development. The new ITAS project "Responsible Innovation and TA" (RITA) takes a closer look at its basic principles and applications.

The EU-funded project Responsible-Industry is organizing a Stakeholder Dialogue and Implementation Plan Workshop from May 20 to 21, 2015 at ITAS.

The closing event of the EU project "Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment" (PACITA) with 350 scientists, stakeholders, and parliamentarians from 38 nations took place from 25 to 27 February 2015.

ITAS is inviting to the second evening in its public series “technik.kontrovers” on Wednesday, March 18.

The Association of German Engineers (VDI) has elected the Professor of Technology Assessment and Deputy Head of ITAS as Chairman of the Advisory Board "Society and Technology".

From April to September 2015 the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft will set sail. An exhibit of the ITAS project "District Future – Urban Lab" is part of the exhibition "City of the Future" on board of the MS Wissenschaft.

As part of the TAB project three expert opinions will be awarded. Deadline for submission of proposals is the 23 February 2015.

Various actors are jointly developing solutions for the sustainable development of urban districts in Freiburg’s “Future Labs”. The ITAS “District Future” team provides advice and scientific support.

Simultaneously to the new TAB report no. 164 on "Synthetic Biology", the TAB-Brief also focuses on the "next stage of biotechnology and genetic engineering".

Editors of the interdisciplinary book series "Futures of technology, Science and Society" are Armin Grunwald, Reinhard Heil and Christopher Coenen.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Institute a Yearbook has been published, which takes a look at its history, but mainly aims to provide insights into the current activities at the Institute.

The central objective of TAB working report No. 162 is to show technological perspectives and options for reconstruction and operation of the future power system.

The new issue of "Technology Assessment – Theory and Practice" (TATuP) focuses on the topic of "Technology and Care in a Society of Longer Living".

Christian Dieckhoff published his PhD thesis under the title “Modelled Future – Energy Scenarios in Scientific Policy Advice”.

The preliminary study shows that cloud computing is gaining economic importance. On the other hand, the market for big data analysis still is in its infancy.

The German analysis "Zur Interpretation von Energieszenarien" provides assistance in understanding and interpreting energy scenario studies.

The conflicts and connections between science and politics are in the focus of this new publication which documents the contributions to the fifth conference of the Network Technology Assessment (NTA).

Technical approaches promise control of global warming. Scientists from the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) discuss these technologies and their consequences for people and the environment.