Studies (free of charge)

"Digital Sovereignty" is a term frequently used in political debates on the national and European level. What is meant by this? How can the EU be capable of asserting its own values and legal systems in a digital policy?

We are pleased to share our white paper on Family Offices and Impact Investing. In this white paper, we wanted to better understand families’ motivations and constraints when it comes to impact investing.

In December 2019, an innovation exchange between Germany and Israel brought the innovative power of Israeli startups together with the know-how of German Mittelstand firms from East Westphalia-Lippe. A key insight: As in other arenas, personal contact is the key to success.

Since the euro area crisis, there has been an intense discussion about the potential side effects of ECB policy on reform efforts of euro area countries. This discussion is set to become even more intense in the wake of the corona crisis and the ECB’s forceful intervention....

The Corona crisis once again clearly shows that the EU often lacks the capacity to act. Europe needs to change to survive in a changing world, and it must, at the same time, become stronger internally in order to be strong externally. However, the EU's other challenges...

One of the issues brought forth by the COVID-19 crisis is the need to track the infection chains in order to stop the disease from spreading. One of the simplest ways this can be done is via a smartphone app. However, this can bring about several privacy issues....

For the Children’s Worlds+ study 3,500 children and youth in Germany were polled by Prof. Sabine Andresen and her team at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main to find out about their needs and interests. This brochure summarizes the results of this study for children and...

The Covid-19 crisis put a huge burden on the global economy and could affect the economy more severe than the Great Financial crisis in the end. Governments responded to the shock imposed by Covid-19 by offering liquidity to the real economy, either directly or indirectly by...

The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) will be the core of the EU’s new Recovery Instrument to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic. Under the RRF, 310 billion euros in additional EU spending will be allocated by the European Commission to member states based on...

We welcome the European Commission’s effort to harmonize AI regulation and create an ecosystem in which algorithmic decision-making systems work for people and become a force for good in society. In this paper we want to share our findings from the “Ethics of Algorithms...