Publications from Leopoldina and DFG
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Recommendations from the DFG: Dealing with Risks in International Research Cooperation
Show more: Recommendations from the DFG: Dealing with Risks in International Research CooperationThe potential risks involved in international research cooperation projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) shall henceforth be subjected to a more thorough and systematic reflection. To this end, the largest research funding organisation and central self-governing organisation for science and the humanities in Germany has put forward recommendations that have recently…
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Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Recommendations for Handling of Security-Relevant Research
Show more: Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Recommendations for Handling of Security-Relevant ResearchResearch plays a fundamental role in ensuring progress. Freedom of research, which is enshrined in the German Basic Law, is a fundamental requirement in this respect. Yet free research is also associated with risks. These risks can only be covered to a limited extent by legal regulations and result primarily from the danger of useful…
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Progress Report (2022)
Show more: Progress Report (2022)Aspects of security-relevant research and related ethical issues are increasingly coming into focus, among other things due to advances in research on artificial intelligence and pandemic pathogens, as well as scientific entanglements with states in which human rights violations and other violations of rule-of-law principles are observed. This is reflected in the fourth Progress Report…
Other Publications
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Science Robotics Volume 7| Issue 66|
Show more: Science Robotics Volume 7| Issue 66|Special Issue on Robots in the Wild. Robots have been successfully deployed in a wide range of domains – including land, sea, air, and space – for a variety of applications such as search and rescue, oceanography, wildlife surveys, and space exploration. In this issue, Zhou et al. have developed a trajectory planner for swarms of micro drones…
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Consider the ethical impacts of quantum technologies in defence – before it’s too late
Show more: Consider the ethical impacts of quantum technologies in defence – before it’s too lateQuantum technologies offer great potential for national defence, for example through improved data collection and secure communication. However, they also harbour significant ethical risks such as threats to privacy and security. The article presents six principles for the responsible development of quantum technologies in the defence sector, with a focus on multilateral cooperation, information security…
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Security-relevant research in virology
Show more: Security-relevant research in virologyStatement on gain of function in virological research by the Society of Virology. Call for a rational discourse on the risks and opportunities of gain-of-function research in virology. The article answers the questions of what GoF means, why it is needed, and which security-relevant research aspects need to be considered.