Shaping the Law for a Society 5.0

Digitalization is the essence of a „Society 5.0“. We can see even today how digitalization changes economic models, business concepts, society and, as a consequence, the law. The workshop addresses some of the manifold issues of digitalization that have either already materialized or can be seen on the horizon. They encompass a broad range of questions from the protection of privacy, misleading advertising, criminal sanctions for fraud, liability of online platforms and chances for a public register for moveable goods.

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Cryptography: A Necessity for the Society 5.0

IT Security plays an increasingly crucial role in everyday life and business. When talking on a mobile phone, when withdrawing money from an ATM or when buying goods over the internet, security plays a crucial role in both protecting the user and in maintaining public confidence in the system. Moreover, several emerging areas deploy severely resource constrained devices, e.g. sensor networks, healthcare, distributed control systems, the Internet of Things, cyber physical systems, and the smart grid.

Virtually all modern security solutions are based on cryptographic primitives. However, as traditional cryptographic algorithms might not be suitable in those emerging areas, there is a need to develop new algorithms for those use cases. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has accordingly launched a competition for cryptographic solutions. The aim of the workshop is to prepare an excellent candidate submission for this call.

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Perspectives in Metropolitan Research

Organized by the Competence Field “Metropolitan Research” of the University Alliance Ruhr (Prof. Dr. Uta Hohn, Prof. Dr. Thomas Feldhoff), sponsored by the Emschergenossenschaft

The quantity and quality of research on metropolitan regions has grown remarkably in recent years. In the ongoing process of urbanisation, metropolises are often considered as models for urban development and planning.The interdisciplinary section on metropolitan research addresses the major political, economic, social and cultural transformations that are shaping metropolitan regions in Japan and Germany. Globalising forces and post-industrial transformations, processes of demographic ageing and the impact of technological innovation confront urban development paths with both challenges and opportunities.

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Molecular Approaches in Biotechnology, Chemical and Molecular Biology

Bioinformatics plays a central role in the understanding of biological processes on molecular level. This symposium tries to underline this importance by eight selected topics involving directly or indirectly informatic processes; they range from small functionalized peptides up to large membrane protein complexes. State-of-the art methods in combination with bioinformatic tools reveal structural information on atomic level which in turn is the basis for the correlation with functional properties and their application in biotechnological processes. Central topics are the interaction of water-soluble proteins with membrane-embedded protein complexes or the initiation of membrane-harbored processes by light: In both cases processes of significance for the survival of the cells are triggered and information is transformed or transmitted. The extensive use of data bases enables the recognition of similar structural/functional principles behind these processes and is the basis for their modification to optimize biotechnological processes such as the harnessing of energy or the improvement of medical treatments.

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Plasma and Atomic Physics

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Digital Humanities and Historical Research on East Asia

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Digitalisation of Foreign Language Education

New learning in Germany and Japan. Concepts. Technologies. Practice

The progressive digitalisation of international society is also having a significant impact on foreign language teaching, both in the current teaching / learning practice of almost all languages and prospectively in the planning of future forms of learning and teaching. Digital media has been an integral part of foreign language teaching for many years and it is hard to imagine forfeiting the use of digital data as a resource for teaching and learning material today.
Added to this is the digitalisation of the learning situation itself, with a variety of forms of instruction - in addition to the conventional classroom teaching - such as distant learning, online learning, blended learning and the like.
The workshop discusses the status quo of new foreign language learning with digital media in Japan and Germany as well as the potential that digitalisation brings to foreign language teaching. The focus of interest is to discuss with our two guest speakers both the situation of Japanese as a foreign language in Japan (Professor Majima) and Germany (LSI) as well as the situation of German as a foreign language in Japan (Professor Ide) and to provide connecting factors for developing a GermanJapanese cooperation in this field.

Public Workshop: Digitalisation of Foreign Language Education