Professor Carolin Häussler is deputy chair of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI), which has submitted its 2026 annual report to the German federal government. In this video interview, she explains why Germany is not making better use of the potential from its own research and how this can be changed.
Over time, the loss of human expertise caused by AI use can impair the quality of that very AI – in the worst case, insidiously and unnoticed. This is the finding of a new study by researchers from the University of Passau (Prof. Dr. Jin Gerlach) and Arizona State University, which was recently published in the renowned journal Academy of Management Review.
In a new study, economist Katharina Drescher (Chair of Public Economics) from the University of Passau shows that school social work not only has positive educational effects, but also reduces youth crime
