On 14 January 2025, the Academy of International Affairs, in collaboration with CASSIS, hosted a panel discussion on "Infrastructure, AI & Europe's path to digital sovereignty." In an increasingly digitalised world, keeping up with and following technological developments is a growing challenge for national governments and institutions such as the EU, especially in light of the new U.S. administration that took office in January 2025. The discussion shed light on how the EU and its Member States can remain competitive while protecting their interests and values.

The Winter School ‘Outer Space Cooperation in the Middle East’ from 6 - 8 December 2024 brought students from the Middle East together with students from Europe to talk about space cooperation in the Middle East.

Under the title "Die Partei spüren: Immersive Parteipropaganda in China," Frederik Schmitz presented the results of his field research on immersive memory infrastructures in China at the Dies academicus. 

Special Advisor for Political Affairs, European Space Agency (ESA) Paris and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Prof Dr Kai-Uwe Schrogl on the new anthology  'Strategic competition in space. Politics, Law, Security and Economics in Space’.

The annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung (ASC) was held on November 21-22, 2024, at the University of Bonn. This year’s conference brought together junior and senior scholars to present and discuss their latest research on contemporary China: including research on digital governance, policy processes, propaganda and public opinion. Set against the backdrop of China's evolving economic and political landscape and growing geopolitical tensions, the event provided a platform for critical engagement with pressing global issues.

On Wednesday, 20 November 2024 an informative and well-attended event took place in the Great Hall of the Bonn University Forum on the topic: ‘The Future of Transatlantic Relations: Implications of the 2024 US Elections’.

The 18th November 2024 marks a special date: Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine began exactly 1000 days ago. To mark this sad milestone, the CASSIS Institute, together with the Görres-Gesellschaft and the Fraunhofer Institute FKIE, organised the event ‘One thousand days of war. Political, Military and Technological Assessments’ at the Bonn University Forum.

We are delighted to report that CASSIS junior researcher and project coordinator Maximilian Schranner has been selected as a Junior Associate Fellow at the NATO Defense College.