Meredith Whittaker in conversation with Anna Katsman, Thomas Gegenhuber, THE NEW INSTITUTE fellows and festival participants of the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftsfestival.

How can we contribute to constructive public debates? To answer this question, we convened a workshop with key figures from communication studies, journalism, activism, and politics.

Listen to Maha Marouan give her talk titled, “The Case of West and Central African Migrants in the West-Central Mediterranean” at the 2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent at the United Nations.

Bruno Leipold offers a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism

Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, is being honored for her commitment to the development of AI technology oriented towards the common good.

Wie können wir zu konstruktiven öffentlichen Debatten beitragen? Jetzt anmelden!

In his new book, "Wilde Demokratie", Tim Wihl explains how the law can enable rather than prevent dissent that promotes democracy.

Claus Leggewie on right-wing radicalism, old pressures and new cleavages

In a paper just published in PNAS, an interdisciplinary team of natural and social scientists outline how humanity could stabilise the earth system on which it so urgently depends.

Meredith Whittaker receives the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis 2024

Introducing a new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene

Fostering global cooperation to safeguard critical Earth system functions

Together with the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung and ZEIT, we invite you to celebrate the awarding of the third Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis on May 15, 2024 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.

We are happy to announce the publication of our Blueprint: Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest

From the City of Hamburg to other European cities: A first (local) legal assessment towards a legal blueprint

Discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication

How can we gain insights into cycling and micromobility flows and the ecosystem in Hamburg to make the city more liveable and sustainable?

THE NEW INSTITUTE Program Chair Minna Salami contributes to the Club of Rome with a distinctive lens from Black feminism and African identity, empowering their battle against global crises.

The University of Bremen convinced the jury with its innovative approach of developing an AI-powered analytics dashboard to improve cycling and micromobility in Hamburg.

A report from our discussion evening at the Hamburger Landesvertretung and our Data Commons Working Group Meeting in Berlin

How does data sharing for the public good really work?

Ideas and solution proposals for data-based improvement of cycling and micromobility wanted.
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and THE NEW INSTITUTE are jointly launching the Urban Data Challenge Hamburg. The goal is to gain new insights into cycling and micromobility flows in Hamburg in order to make the city more livable and sustainable. The best proposed solution will be awarded €40,000.

How The New Hanse tries to tackle the question of private-public-people partnership in the digital age. What is the role of data in the digital age? What are prominent ways of governing data? How can we best use data for our common good?

THE NEW INSTITUTE starts a collaboration with the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

Here, you can find all our fellow publications of the year 2022–2023

Find out more about all publications by our fellows from 2020–2022