The Fraunhofer Initiative Morgenstadt presents a strategy for implementing sustainable urban development in its strategy paper "Sustainable Cities and Regions". Researchers from FOKUS contribute their expertise on quality assurance and standardization of information and communication technologies in the Smart City to the strategy paper.

Press Release – Thanks to the interoperability of the Open5GCore by Fraunhofer FOKUS, companies can flexibly use a wide range of radio technologies of various manufacturers when setting up 5G networks. This facilitates healthy competition and supports companies in testing local, reliable, secure and future-proof 5G “standalone” campus networks.

Which blockchain solutions are already being used in industrial trade today and what possibilities for optimization are there for the future? These questions are being answered in the newly published blockchain-guide of the EU-Parliament, which was partly written by FOKUS scientists. The study was created in close collaboration with the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) and published on May 29, 2020.

What questions do citizens have about public administration? To which authorities do they address the most inquiries? And which offices respond particularly quickly? The answers to these and many other questions can now be found by anyone interested on a new data analysis platform.

Which digital trends already influence the work of the administration today, which changes are emerging for the future? Fraunhofer FOKUS and its Competence Center Public IT hope to provide an answer in the recently published "ThemenRadar" by Behörden Spiegel, a monthly national newspaper for the public service.

In German municipalities there are numerous innovative projects concerning digital solutions to the challenges of rural areas. The latest publication by the Competence Center Public IT (ÖFIT) provides an overview of these approaches and the conditions under which they are successful.