On February 23, 2023, the French Consul General Gaël de Maisonneuve together with Science Attaché Hervé Martin visited the Competence Center for Cybersecurity KASTEL SRL at KIT. Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade introduced the interdisciplinary research of the competence center to the visitors. He also talked about the currently running German-French research project PROPOLIS - PRivacy fOr smart cities, which clearly illustrates the international cooperation in research. At the end of the visit, KASTEL researchers presented the practical application of research results by means of some demonstrators to Monsieur de Maisonneuve and Monsieur Martin.

On January 31, Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Starck-Watzinger visited the steering committee of the "Learning Systems Platform," which was launched in 2017 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Academy of Science and Engineering acatech. There, experts from science, industry and society create an understanding of how AI works, its application fields and its impact through their interdisciplinary work. Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade from the KASTEL Security Research Labs at KIT and head of a working group of the platform gave a keynote speech on the partly critical relation between data use and data protection during the minister's visit. In the talk, he contrasted technical and legal approaches to data protection-compliant and public good-oriented use for AI systems.

The paper "Awareness, Intention, (In)Action: Individuals’ Reactions to Data Breaches" by Peter Mayer, Yixin Zou, Byron M. Lowens, Hunter A. Dyer, Khue Le, Florian Schaub, and Adam J. Aviv was accepted for publication in the journal ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). The study is a follow-up to the USENIX paper "'Now I'm a bit angry:' Individuals' Awareness, Perception, and Responses to Data Breaches that Affected Them" from 2021. The main survey in which the authors presented participants with up to three breaches that affected them, was complemented with a follow-up survey in which the authors investigated whether the main study participants followed through with their intentions to act. 

Prof. Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, and Prof. Anne Koziolek, Competence Center for Cybersecurity KASTEL at KIT, received a Tandem Fellowship from the Stifterverband and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg.  They were looking for inspiring ideas on how digital university teaching can be innovatively designed and further developed. With the fellowships, the Stifterverband and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg aim to stimulate a lasting discussion that is both subject-related and cross-disciplinary. The joint project dealt with the transfer of an innovative programming education with mini programming worlds (TiPMin).

On Friday, December 09, 2022, at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris the 7th Forum on Franco-German Research Cooperation of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche took place. Prof. Jörn Müller-Quade as representative of the Competence Center KASTEL and the platform Learning Systems gave a keynote lecture on the topic "AI and Cybersecurity" in the context of the workshop "Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence: recognizing opportunities, identifying risks". The goal of the workshop was the development of a roadmap for further research collaborations, based on the status of previous and important future topics in the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

On December 06, 2022, the acatech theme conference on Safety and Security took place online.

The event with invited guests from industry and science was moderated and organized by Jan Wörner, president of acatech, and Jörn Müller-Quade, the topic network speaker for safety from the KASTEL Institute at KIT. In lectures and discussions, they dealt with the challenge of merging the digital world with the reality. Protection against cyber attacks and ensuring operational security in the economy were highlighted and networked at the conference.