On September 13, 2025, we had the great pleasure of celebrating 25 years of the Chair of Information & Market Engineering. The event brought together alumni, colleagues, and friends to mark a very special milestone: a quarter of a century since Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt established and has continuously led the chair.

On the occasion of the International Day of Democracy on September 15, the Triangel warmly invites you – now for the fourth year in a row – to join our Days of Democracy. Together, we want to work to keep democracy alive, stand up for democratic values, get involved, and have our say. From September 18 to 20, we are creating many opportunities to exchange ideas, discuss, and participate.

From August 3rd–13th, 2025, Oliver Resch from the Smart Grids and Energy Markets (SGEM) research group participated in the inaugural "Future Energy" Global Summer School at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

From July 21–24, 2025, our team attended the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Norrköping, Sweden.
David Borukhson, Amal Labbouz, and Ina Ni from the Digital Democracy and Participation group represented the project Social Sentiments in Times of Crises (SOSEC) and contributed with one talk and two posters.

We are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2025, Meike Hebich has assumed the position of office management of the KIT Centre for Humans & Technology (MuT) that the WIN is also associated with. She succeeds Richard Beecroft, who has shifted his focus to research on real‑world labs and sustainability at KIT’s Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS).

We are pleased to welcome Levi Reyes Premer from Purdue University's Herrick Laboratories as a visiting researcher at the Chair of Information & Market Engineering from late June to August 2025.

At the EFFEKTE Festival on May 17–18 in Karlsruhe, the KIT Zentrum für Mensch und Technik and FZI research group Digital Democracy and Participation showcased interactive research on Resilient Digital Democracy. Highlights included demos on detecting disinformation with AI and how platform design influences online debate. A special appearance in the late-night show STULLE – wissenschaftlich belegt brought science communication to the stage in a playful and engaging format. The weekend underscored the importance of public dialogue in shaping our digital future.

This year, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) celebrates its bicentennial anniversary. As part of the festivities, KIT welcomed the public on May 17 during its annual "Tag der offenen Tür" (Open House Day). Some of our young researchers had the chance to present their latest research.

Celebrating 200 Years of KIT – by showcasing our current work to the public!

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is celebrating a major milestone this year: its 200th anniversary! As part of the celebrations, KIT opened its doors to the public on May 17 during the annual "Tag der offenen Tür" (Open Day).

To celebrate this occasion, our institute together with the KIT Zentrum Mensch und Technik (MuT) showcased some of our latest research and interactive demonstrators to visitors in the MobiLab tiny house. 

In spring 2025, Dr. Jonas Fegert, head of the House of Participation at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik and research group lead at WIN, spent two intensive weeks in Israel as part of the initiative “Tech for Democracy: German-Israeli Research Initiative on Digital Democracy.” The visit marked a significant step in strengthening an emerging interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the intersection of technology and democracy

 “Democracy needs science, and science needs democracy” – with this message, Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt, speaker of the KIT-Center “Mensch und Technik”, addressed the visitors of the Europe Days on the market square in Karlsruhe. In his speech, he emphasized the relevance of open and critical thinking as a link between science and democratic culture and of spaces that enable exchange between science and society. Further words of welcome were given by Mayor Dr. Frank Mentrup and Markus Thomas, President of Department 2 of the Karlsruhe Regional Council.