PIER PLUS has launched a new website on the Hightech Agenda Germany. As a platform for collaboration and networking among Hamburg’s universities and research institutes, PIER PLUS showcases how Hamburg, with its strong research landscape, contributes to the federal government’s innovation agenda.

How do you store the sun? Will AI take away my job? And how rough is water, actually? These are just a few of the many questions that experts entertain at Hamburg pubs for the Science on Tap event. On 3 and 4 June, researchers from DESY and the University of Hamburg will take over bars and pubs. Thanks to the huge interest...

At its 13th meeting in April 2026, the PIER PLUS Steering Committee addressed the topic of re-search security under the conditions of global political upheaval. The discussions focused on the exchange of institutional strategies, cybersecurity, and the development of shared structures for the Hamburg science community.

The DFG Research Unit “The Promise of Security in Catastrophic Times” (PROMISE) has recently started its work. Its spokesperson, Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder – who also leads the PIER PLUS profile “Conflict, Cooperation and Security” – heads this interdisciplinary group, which includes three PIER PLUS partners.