Digitalisation

All faculties of the University of Passau are addressing the technological foundations and societal impacts of the digital turn. The Digitalisation Hub is an open cooperation and exchange forum for networking scholars and scientists.

Our research cluster

Cybersecurity and data protection

At the Passau Institute of Digital Security (PIDS) and the Institute for Law and Digital Society (IRDG), scholars from the fields of mathematics, computer science, law and the humanities conduct interdisciplinary research on IT security and data protection and use their expertise to build a new Bavarian security research network

eHumanities: Datafication of the Humanities

The eHumanities focus that has established itself at the University of Passau in recent years is a bridging link between the humanities and social sciences on the one hand and computer science on the other. Here is an overview of projects and the people involved.

Digital Platform Ecosystems

Exploring the core phenomenon of the digital economy and digital society requires a view from multiple disciplines. The University of Passau is setting new standards – such as in the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)".

INTERREG project CySeReS-SME: Cyber Security and Resilience in Supply Chains with a focus on SMEs

DFG project RESURREC: Warding off hacking attacks on autonomous vehicles systems

Cross-Linguistic Data Formats: Using Standards in Digitalization to Contribute to the Creation and Curation of Language Data

BMBF project SynphOnie: New model for more sustainable transport networks

ERC research group "ProduSemy": Using algorithms to track the evolution of word families

BMBF project FINESSE: Developing a secure smart sensor for street and rail vehicles

DFG Research Unit 5254/1 "Lasting Learning": How learning becomes lasting knowledge

EU-project OpenWebSearch.EU: Europe's Independence in Web Search

DFG-Project: An Organizational Perspective on the Collection and Use of Personal Information

BMBF research project on skillful interaction with real tools in virtual worlds

BMBF Project KiWI: Research findings as drivers of innovation

Project KISSMe3D: On track to creating a self-learning measuring system

BMBF Research Hub 6G-RIC – A security architecture for future mobile telephony

The FORDaySec research cluster – Security in everyday digitalisation

Digitrans-Easy: Digital transformation the easy way

BMBF project DEEP WRITE: Better writing and arguing in Law and Economics through AI

Multilingual publics in the Corona vaccination debate on Twitter

DZSF – Projecting security requirements and evaluating prospective safety concepts for the railway system

DFG Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)"

The BMDV project KIMoNo: How can artificial intelligence improve our mobility?

ISA:Dig: Internal Degree Programme Audits Before the Background of Digitalisation

DFG project SuPerPlan: Sustainable personnel planning for companies with fluctuating demand

How data exchange in company networks influences users’ decisions concerning disclosure

DFG project – calculating flexibility in energy systems

Hands-on MINT

bidt-project "Vectors of Data Disclosure"

Junior research group CAROLL: algorithms trained in rhetoric to combat hatred on the Web

DFG project STUNT combats software errors with algorithm

DFG project PUFmem – manipulation-proof fingerprints for new-type memory modules

DFG project NANOSEC – maximum IT security for tiny particles

Teacher training in the digital age: free state and federation to fund trend-setting concept from University of Passau

Research Center for Law and Digitalization

Strengthening Tourism in Eastern Bavaria Through Digitalisation

Strategies for Skills Acquisition: Innovative Teaching Concepts in Teacher Training, digitally enhanced (SKILL.de)

Project researches psychological and technical hindrances to using right to data portability

Emmy Noether research group: the power of the Internet in Russia

DFG project SINIR – with simulated usage data for the library of the future

CONCORDIA: University of Passau strengthens European cyber-strategy

'Europlanet 2024': Data science for space at the University of Passau

ERC Consolidator Grant RUSINFORM 2019 - 2024

Making Electromobility User-Friendly: The University of Passau Participates in "BDL" Innovation Project

Why Do People Act and How Does It Work?

INTERREG Network DataKMU – Data Analysis Without Limits

UNICARagil - Research Collaboration on the Mobility of the Future

The “Privacy BlackBox” project: data protection-compliant in-car camera use

SORRIR project to increase the level of security of the “Internet of Things”

Cross-domain AI – a smart toolbox for data scientists

BMBF project MORFEUS: Prevention of attacks on embedded systems

Services versus data: DFG project investigates market mechanisms and their regulation in the digital platform economy

EU Project HELIOS: The European Response to Facebook & Co.

bidt-project: Challenges of regulating digital communication platforms

Web archives – archiving the internet for future generations

Didactic innovation rooms for teacher training

Institutes and centres

Digitalisation research activity is concentrated in several interdisciplinary institutes and centres at the University:

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

At the Passau Institute of Digital Security (PIDS) and the Institute for Law and Digital Society, scholars and scientists conduct interdisciplinary research on IT security and data protection. Read on to find out more about the members, their research motivation and selected topics.

On 20 April, the University of Passau hosted the Trinational Round Table on Artificial Intelligence. Around 40 researchers from German, Austrian and Czech universities took the opportunity to engage in an exchange on current AI issues.

The digital world asks us this question several times a day: should we share our data? A video explaining the interdisciplinary bidt project "Vectors of data disclosure", which examines the general legal and cultural conditions of that moment.

The interdisciplinary research cluster ForDaySec investigates novel technical procedures for the cyber security of private households, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the public administration.

eHumanities

The eHumanities focus that has established itself at the University of Passau in recent years is a connecting bridge between the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and computer science on the other. Here is an overview of our projects and the people involved.

The ERC research group "ProduSemy" led by Professor Johann-Mattis List uses algorithms to track the evolution of word families – a process that is not yet well understood by linguists.

Platform economy

Exploring the core phenomenon of the digital economy and digital society requires a view from multiple disciplines. The University of Passau is setting new standards – such as in the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)" – in training up early career researchers.

While the sirens are wailing outside in Lviv, Ukraine, Oleksandr Rudyak is sitting indoors, attending an online meeting to discuss his master's thesis with Professor Andreas König. And they both have an idea.

Using data from the German version of the quiz show "Who wants to be a millionaire?", Professor Carolin Häussler and Dr. Sabrina Vieth have been investigating when people in the digital age resort to which problem-solving strategies.