Hans Bredow Institute Celebrates 60th Anniversary

With a festive reception and over 150 guests the Hans Bredow Institute celebrated its 60th anniversary on 31 May 2010. NDR director Lutz Marmor, the president of the University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen, and Dr. Rolf Greve, senior official of the Hamburg Ministry of Science and Research, congratulated the Institute and gave short welcoming speeches.

The anniversary falls into a phase of substantial change of the research organisation: in the upcoming years, the institute will step by step expand its activities in the areas of research, transfer and service. The medium-term objective is the admission to the Leibniz Association as advised by the most recent report of the German Council of Science and Humanities on the situation of the state of media and communication sciences. The Hamburg Ministry of Science and Research expressly supports this perspective.   »»

Wolfgang Schulz Member of Committee of Enquiry “Internet and Digital Society”

Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Managing Director of the Hans Bredow Institute, will join the committee of enquiry “Internet and Digital Society” as an independent expert. In the upcoming two and a half years, the commission will concern itself with the opportunities and challenges of the “digital society”. It will develop political guidance in order to further improve the general conditions of the information society in Germany and, based on its research results, phrase the national and international call to action.   »»

Creativity and Copyright in the Net Economy – Hamburg Initiative for the Protection of Intellectual Property

“Hamburg as a media location wants to position itself with the further development of copyright and ancillary rights”, explained state council Dr. Nikolas Hill to representatives of the media and advertising industry at Hamburg town hall on 5 March 2010 on the occasion of presenting the project “Creativity and Copyright in the Net Economy”, which is supported by the Authority of Culture, Sports and Media. The project is led by the Hans Bredow Institute and supposed to develop options how copyright law can be adjusted to the terms of the Internet and modern communication, with the objective to make better use of the social and economical potential of the media industry. An expert group consisting of researchers from the University of Hamburg, the Hans Bredow Institute, Bucerius Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and the Hamburg Media School, is currently developing suggestions. This happens in dialogue with the industry and international academic advisors from Australia, China, UK, Israel, the Netherlands, Austria, and the USA.   »»

Academic Advisory Board Constituted at the Hans Bredow Institute

On December 17, 2009 the new academic advisory board of the Hans Bredow Insitute has been constituted. In close cooperation with Hamburg’s Ministry of Science and Research, the Institute is currently implementing first steps of a development strategy, which aims to profile and strengthen the Institute’s role in science and research. In order to accompany this process, the Institute has constituted an academic advisory board, which advises the board of directors on strategic issues. This concerns subjects and questions, which the Institute will explore in the medium or long run, but also working methods and the Institute’s function within science and transfer into practice. The academic board has seven members and is composed interdisciplinary and international – according to the Institute’s working method.
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Hamburg Excellence Initiative Supports Graduate School “Media and Communication”

The doctorate programme of the graduate school "Media and Communication" at the University of Hamburg will start teaching in winter semester 2009/2010. The graduate school is sponsor of the interdisciplinary PhD programme of the “Research Center for Media and Communication (RCMC)”. In a nationally exceptional network, the RCMC combines transdisciplinary media research and education of the University of Hamburg and the Hans Bredow Institute with exciting research and doctorate opportunities for junior researchers. Within the scope of the State Excellence Initiative, the graduate school in winter semester 2009/2010 awards ten partial scholarships, each at 800 Euro per month.