Digital Responsibility for Germany
Save the Date: CDR Conference 2025
On October 6th the sixth CDR Conference of the CDR Initiative will take place in Berlin from 11 am to 4 pm. As in previous years, high-profile speakers from politics, business and civil society will take part.
The conference will be opened by Frank Schwabe, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV). This year's conference will focus on ‘Digital Responsibility for Germany’ and the opportunities this creates for companies.
Using practical examples, we want to show how companies of all sizes and from a wide range of sectors can practically implement digital responsibility towards their customers, employees and society and what additional value this brings for the companies themselves and society as a whole.
Further information and the program will be published shortly on the CDR Initiative's website. Subscribe to the CDR Initiative's newsletter here to secure your spot for the free but limited places.
Since January 2023, the office of the CDR Initiative has been operated by the ConPolicy Institute for Consumer Policy and concern.
We invite you to an interactive online conference
What moves people - incentives for sustainable mobility
A financial bonus for not using your own car, advice on switching to eco-mobility or the annual collection of kilometers for city cycling - incentives can motivate citizens to try out sustainable mobility in a variety of ways. It is precisely this potential that is increasingly bringing incentives into the focus of municipal actors. This is because they start with behavior and invite people to use the infrastructure and services of the eco-mobility network.
Our interactive online conference on Friday, October 17th, from 9:30 am - 12:00 pm will provide impulses on how incentives can be implemented in practice. On behalf of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the difu and the ConPolicy Institute cordially invite you to get to know the results of our project “Financial and immaterial incentives for changes in mobility behavior” - and to talk to us directly.
Together we want to:
Convey the basics: What actually are incentives, how do they work - and who do they reach?
Present practical examples and share experiences: What does it take for incentives to be effective?
Encourage implementation: How do we get from a good idea to successful implementation?
We cordially invite you to join us and get into conversation with us!
New Project for the Federal Office for Information Security as part of the Dialogue on Cybersecurity
Organizational and methodological support for two workstreams on cyber security
Advancing digitalization is leading to an increase in the networking of devices and services, which significantly increases the attack potential for cyberattacks. At the same time, the threat of phishing, malware, AI-supported attacks and other vulnerabilities is increasing. These developments highlight the need for a broad-based, society-wide approach to promoting cyber security. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has therefore been organizing a dialogue on cybersecurity since 2016, which systematically incorporates different perspectives and stakeholders. ConPolicy and nexus are providing organizational and methodological support for two workstreams. These workstreams aim to develop concrete solutions to current cybersecurity issues.
The two workstreams for 2024/2025 deal with the following topics:
Cybersecurity in society - the role of the CRA for open source
White card for special exemplary behavior in information security
Further information on the project can be found here
Further information on the Dialogue for Cybersecurity can be found here
Handbook for the project MOBITAT 2050 - Living and Working 2050
Sustainable commuting in the region of the future
Every day, many people travel between their place of residence and their place of work - they commute. Commuting behavior depends on many factors, which the ConPolicy Institute has investigated and now published together with other partners in the MOBITAT 2050 project.
Commuter behavior depends not only on the choice of where to work, but also on the choices of where to live and means of transportation. The MOBITAT project showed that choosing where to live is the important factor for people, and that the commute is usually accepted as a result.
The commute itself is strongly influenced by habits. Nudging and other soft measures that target well-known behavioral tendencies can usefully support hard measures from infrastructure and political framework conditions and motivate new or more sustainable behaviors.
However, the MOBITAT 2050 experiments showed that behavior-based interventions only have an effect if the other framework conditions are already attractive - i.e. in particular, if they are affordable and easily accessible.
ConPolicy guest article for the neue energie magazine
Why are Germans becoming less interested in climate protection?
In this guest article, Prof. Dr. Christian Thorun, Managing Director of the ConPolicy Institute for Consumer Policy, explains the reasons for Germans'…
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