German R&D and transfer programmes—Forschungszulage, ZIM, and Berlin's Transfer BONUS Design—can cover a substantial share of engineering, working student, design, and university collaboration costs when the underlying research topic is structured properly.
German companies have three distinct models for bringing university talent into R&D: working students, mandatory internships, and industry theses. Choosing the right contract—and pairing it with structured research supervision and open-source maintenance—turns student roles from a supervision burden into a lasting R&D asset.
Climate+Tech and the Adaptation Exchange are at the first Munich Climate Week, taking place across the city from 19–25 October 2026. Meet Christian Wiener to discuss climate adaptation, resilience and useful climate technology.
A relevant passage is not necessarily useful for a decision. UsefulBench tests whether information retrieval systems can tell the difference in sustainability reports.
The Microsoft 365 Business Premium nonprofit grant has ended. Learn how to check an expired licence, prevent OneDrive data loss, choose a replacement plan, and create an independent backup.
MSCI Institute finds that once set up, XBRL-based sustainability disclosures can be processed up to 10× faster than AI PDF extraction — and argues digital tagging and AI work best together, not as substitutes.
Is XBRL tagging for sustainability reports "archaic nonsense" — or a chance for digital reporting and AI? If you are an NLP researcher and want to discuss this with us, join NLP4Climate on 12 August.
Google DeepMind's openly released dataset and prompted implementation of the Habermas Machine, the AI mediation system behind the peer-reviewed Science study on AI-assisted democratic deliberation.
Call for evidence / participants: The European Commission's Better Regulation consultation is open until February 4, 2026. Join our working group to provide coordinated, evidence-based feedback.
The first ClimateCheck shared task at SDP 2025 challenged participants to build systems for scientific fact-checking of climate claims, with tasks focusing on abstract retrieval and claim verification against a corpus of 394,269 climate science publications.
A free comprehensive Udemy course by Nathaniel Burola exploring the environmental impacts of data centers and strategies for decarbonization in the digital infrastructure sector.
Join us in exploring the tactics companies use to evade carbon emission compliance and the implications for environmental policy, with expert insights from Lolie Cambolive.
