Closing event: Safe. Confident. Connected.

Under the motto Safe. Confident. Connected, the key findings from three years of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research will be presented. The focus will be on questions of social digital resilience, the targeted support of vulnerable groups in areas related to cyber security and disinformation and the presentation of two developed technical assistance systems.

The programme includes specialist lectures, project presentations and an interactive roundtable on the concept of Value Sensitive Design, i.e. the socially responsible design of new technologies. The event also offers the opportunity to exchange ideas with experts from academia and other regional players from civil society, associations and other initiatives and to discuss new perspectives on digital risks and resilience for research, but also for everyday practice.

Details

• Date: 14 November 2025, from 09:45 to 17:15 Get-together the evening before: 13 November 2025 from 19:00
• Location: Lecture hall 3 at Sankt Augustin Campus of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• Address: Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin

Schedule 

(planned)

Thursday, 13. November 2025

19.00: Get-Together: Dinner at Restaurant Kimchi Gourmet, Südstraße 31, 53757 Sankt Augustin

Friday, 14. November 2025

09.45: Arrival

10.00: Welcome in Lecture Hall 3 (Hektor Haarkötter, Wolfgang Heiden, Christian Reuter, and Volker Wulf)

10.15: Keynote speech by Dr. Laura Braam, Head of Legal Affairs and Legal Advisor at the North Rhine-Westphalian Regional Office for Media Regulation

11:00: CrossComITS: Presentations and Roundtable (moderator: Tobias Hölterhof)

• "I can't be cheated online in Turkish": Making vulnerable groups visible through qualitative research, Mariana Ochoa Moreno (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 15 min)
• Reaching (and enriching) vulnerable groups through cross-media storytelling, Wolfgang Heiden (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 15 min)
• IT safety mediators for older adults (Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen, 10 min)
• Trying it out at rest: Simulated everyday digital situations on phishing and cookie banners, Thomas Neteler (Justus Liebig University Giessen, 10-15 min)
• "At home I just don't feel like doing it. I'd rather learn with others": Building bridges, not barriers: A train-the-trainer approach to cybersecurity for vulnerable communities, Roodabeh Seif (University of Siegen, 15 min)

12.30: Lunch break

13.30: NEBULA: Presentations and discussion round (moderator: Katrin Hartwig)

• Detection of fake news and misinformation using weak knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence, Michael Röder and Umair Qudus (Paderborn University)
• TikTok, X, and Telegram: User-centered indicators for multimodal false and misinformation, Katrin Hartwig and Franziska Schneider (TU Darmstadt)
• Trust in fact-checking apps for disinformation? Insights into accompanying research on technical assistance systems for vulnerable groups, Mario Anastasiadis (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences)
• Digital sovereignty: Findings from NEBULA's field research with vulnerable groups, Parvin Ghadamighalandari (University of Siegen)

15.00: Coffee break

15.30: Value-based technologies in a transdisciplinary context: Presentation of technical assistance systems and joint discussion (Moderation: Mario Anastasiadis & Mariana Ochoa-Moreno)

• Presentation of the CrossComITS platform, Stefan Neidig (Nano Giants, 15 min + questions)
• Presentation of the NEBULA assistance system, Stefan Neidig (Nano Giants, 15 min + questions)
• Joint round, plenary (30-45 min)

16.45-17.00: Wrap-up with outlook, book project and farewell (Hektor Haarkötter)

17.15: Networking and end of event