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The Green ICT Award will be conferred for the second time in 2024 to inspire young researchers for microelectronics and especially for Green ICT. The student award was initiated by the Research Fab Microelectronics Germany, which aims to answer the questions of tomorrow with today's research activities in the field of microelectronics and attaches particular importance to the sustainable promotion of future talents. The prize rewards outstanding student theses in the field of resource-efficient information and communication technology. The winner will receive EUR 2,500 in prize money.

CEPIS DiversIT Charter, together with the German Informatics Society, the Fraunhofer ICT Group, and #SheTransformsIT, are organising a conference to try to find solutions to this lack of meaningful progress in retaining female tech talent. This free one-day conference, titled, ‘Stay in tech! – Policies and practices for attracting and retaining female tech talent’, aims to help companies overcome these challenges and identify ways to retain valuable colleagues.

Today we received the sad news that the former Chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT Group, Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke, passed away on March 21, 2024.

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Die preisgekrönten Dissertationen des ICT Dissertation Awards im Jahr 2023. drehen sich rund um das Thema »Maschinelles Lernen«, das aus verschiedenen Richtungen und Anwendungsdomänen heraus untersucht wird. Die Gewinner kommen aus den Fraunhofer-Instituten für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT, für Angewandte und Integrierte Sicherheit AISEC sowie für Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT.

Anita Schöbel, Leiterin des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik ITWM, ist mit dem Wissenschaftspreis der Gesellschaft für Operations Research ausgezeichnet worden. Sie erhielt den Preis Ende August 2023 für ihr Lebenswerk.

For two days, hub.berlin will once again be all about tech innovations that are shaping our future. CEOs, leading minds in research, political decision-makers and industry experts will be in attendance. At hub.berlin, the topics that shape our time - and the future - will be discussed in a unique atmosphere. In recent years, hub.berlin has made a name for itself as a trendy place for networking and new beginnings.

The Fraunhofer ICT Group is participating at re:publica Berlin for the first time this year. The re:publica is the festival for the digital society and thus the largest conference of its kind in Europe. The participants of re:publica form a diverse cross-section of digital society, which include professionals from research, politics, economics, hacker culture, NGOs, media and marketing, as well as bloggers, activists, artists and social media experts.

Boris Otto has been appointed as the new chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT Group. As of January 1, 2022, he will succeed Dieter Fellner, whose six-year term as chairman of the Group will end in December 2021.

Manfred Hauswirth (Director Fraunhofer FOKUS), Karl Aberer (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) and Ali Salehi (Teradata) have won the "MDM Test of Time Award 2021". They received the award at the 22nd IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference for their 2007 paper "Infrastructure for data processing in large-scale interconnected sensor networks".

The expectations are gigantic, the stakes are high: quantum physics is reaching the reality of life. When quantum technologies come into use, the possibilities are hardly foreseeable yet, so enormous is the potential. The question is: When and how will quantum technologies come into use? The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is tracking down the answers in countless projects and initiatives. In May 2021, the branch association Bitkom will host the first Quantum Summit. And, of course, Fraunhofer will be there.