Weizenbaum-Institut

The Weizenbaum Institute conducts excellent, independent, interdisciplinary and fundamental digitalization research. We provide politics, business and civil society with well-founded findings and value-based recommendations for action and help to ensure that digitalization and networking are not only better understood, but can also be shaped in a sustainable, self-determined and responsible manner.
The Weizenbaum Institute was founded in 2017. It is based on a close partnership between seven institutes in Berlin and Brandenburg. These partners are: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität der Künste Berlin, Universität Potsdam and, as non-university research institutions, the Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme (FOKUS) and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).