![]() The TAB report on energy saving effects in the building sector shows what property owners can do to save resources and money and how the state can help them. Policy brief TAB-Fokus is available in English. More23.06.2022 | Publication |
![]() The results of a population-representative survey on this question are the focus of the fifth issue of the TAB-Sensor. More15.06.2022 | Publication |
![]() New methods report presents innovative participation procedures and discusses their potential benefits for parliamentary Technology Assessment. More13.05.2022 | Publication |
![]() On the occasion of World Malaria Day, technological approaches to combating malaria were the focus of a moderated panel discussion on 25 April 2022 as the start of the new event series "TA in dialogue" in the German Bundestag. More02.05.2022 | Event |
![]() After 30 years we will offer the TAB-Brief with information on TA at the German Bundestag as a compact digital newsletter in Englisch for subscription. We look forward to many (new) readers. More27.04.2022 | TAB-Brief |
![]() As part of a dialogue event between scientists from the Rathenau Institute and the TAB with members of the German Bundestag, the EPTA presidency 2022 was handed over from the Netherlands to Germany. More25.03.2022 | Event |
![]() How does UV-C light contribute to pandemic control? How are bio-based plastics produced? What role do sustainable fuels and engines play for clean aviation? Is AI becoming our constant interlocutor and is art now digital too? Or are NFTs just hype? More09.03.2022 | Publication |
![]() In two newly published reports TAB sheds light on development trends in digital agricultural technologies and analyses the opportunities and risks of a systemically integrated agriculture. The corresponding Policy Briefs are now available in English. More16.02.2022 | Publication |
![]() The fourth issue of the TAB-Sensor is dedicated to the topic of telemedicine and focuses on population-representative assessments of the use and potential benefits of telemedicine services. More25.01.2022 | Publication |
![]() A new TAB report gives an overview of potential applications of human genome editing, ethical and regulatory aspects are discussed. The corresponding Policy Brief is now available in English. More14.12.2021 | Publication |
![]() The new brief study provides an overview of which innovative cooling technologies and concepts are efficient, low-emission and at the same time affordable for broad sections of the population in Germany and worldwide. More22.11.2020 | Topics and projects |
![]() The new report of the Network of European Parliamentary TA Agencies (EPTA), presented at the annual EPTA conference on 9 November2021 in The Hague, Netherland, highlights important issues for the political agenda More27.10.2021 | Conference and Publication |
![]() The activity report 2020 documents our broad spectrum of activities despite pandemic-related restrictions. The compact review of activities and research results in 2020 is available online (in German). Download23.09.2021 | Publication |
![]() Which type of land management is most sustainable ecologically, socially and economically? TAB report examines the possibilities of a comparative sustainability assessment of agricultural systems and shows the need for action for the (further) development of a more differentiated assessment. More23.06.2021 | Publication |
![]() What will the toilet of the future look like? What added value does the digitization of cultural assets offer? What contribution can technologies make against food waste? Can AI recognize emotions and is the Hyperloop just hype? Our five new topic profiles provide compact answers to these questions. More22.06.2021 | Publication |
![]() The German Bundestag has approved the further work programme of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag. More12.05.2021 | TAB |
![]() The corona pandemic poses major challenges for all sectors of society. Four new thematic short profiles from Horizon Scanning provide condensed information on current issues and impulses for pandemic times and beyond. More17.03.2021 | Publication |
![]() Commercial players are creating a momentum of innovation in space exploration by developing new technologies and business models. Our Short Study no. 1 and policy brief TAB-Fokus no. 29 provide an overview of current developments and future prospects for German space research and industry, taking particular account of new development and start-up dynamics. More25.02.2021 | Publication |
![]() TAB-Brief no. 51 explores the questions of how forward-looking the analyses were, what constitutes the special value of the investigations and what perspectives new technologies open up for the work of parliamentary technology assessment. More26.01.2021 | TAB-Brief |