Open Access Proportion in 2018 was 41.5 percent, three percentage points higher than in 2017 No 079/2020 from May 14, 2020 The proportion of freely accessible journal articles published by researchers in Berlin increased again.

Almost every youngster has dreamed of being able to operate a giant crane. Until now, operating the heavy machines has been extremely complicated.

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will be visiting several villages in Mali every six months in the future. They are studying entrepreneurial activities following the construction of local solar power stations. Project director Frank-Martin Belz, Professor of Corporate Sustainability, explains why the study is looking at entire families, and how the situation is reminiscent of Germany around 100 years ago.

If a lie would be bad for their image, people are more likely to ignore financial incentives - People are more honest when talking about topics involving high-status knowledge. A new study in the field of behavioral economics shows that this is true even if they have a financial incentive to lie.

Findings published by a team of researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin Social Science Center and Ohio State University

The number of hacker attacks in Germany is steadily increasing. In order to equip companies and public institutions with the tools to fend off cyber-attacks, a new committee of scientific experts will be assessing the security situation in Germany in the future - and provide guidance when it comes to issues of IT security. Prof Claudia Eckert, head of the chair of IT security at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is one of the six initial memebers of the Council of Cyber Experts.