New projects for 2024/2025 - once again "at the pulse of time"

The latest round of topic identification for new TAB projects was launched in spring 2024 with a call from the Chairman of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, Kai Gehring. The 52 topic proposals received from all parliamentary groups and committees were then examined by TAB for possible processing and project concepts were developed for this purpose. On this basis, the members of the rapporteur group for technology assessment selected 12 new topics for investigation in 2024/2025, including 3 comprehensive TA projects and 9 TA compact studies, which were unanimously approved by the committee on 3 July 2024.

Five studies will start in autumn 2024:

• Biotechnology and artificial intelligence: risks from research for security and proliferation of biological weapons 
• AI-based applications in decentralized electricity systems
• Military use of quantum technologies 
• Technological options to reduce plastic waste in the oceans 
• Rare earths - the supply situation, considering geopolitical risks and progress in recycling and establishing a circular economy 

A further seven projects will be launched in the course of 2025 - project websites will be published at a later date:

• Potential of BECCS and DACCS negative emission technologies 
• Implementing the circular economy in the construction sector
• Application perspectives of invasive and non-invasive neuroelectric interfaces 
• Development prospects for cellular agriculture in Germany using the example of plant-based substitutes for meat and milk 
• The potential of digital twins for sustainable and climate-adapted urban development 
• The use of biotechnologically modified micro-organisms in agriculture and environmental protection 
• Promoting and inhibiting factors in the use of open source software in public administration 

TAB and the Committee on Technology Assessment are once again at the "pulse of time and parliamentary debates", said Kai Gehring, as security and defence policy research projects have now become a high priority among TA project topics, following many digital and energy policy topics.

Calls for external expertise for the TA projects starting in autumn 2024 are currently being prepared and will be published on our website in July 2024.

12.07.2024

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