Our Projects
Current Projects
NSPT-QKD - Numerical security proof toolkit for quantum key distribution
The ongoing digitalization and the rise in connected devices are creating a growing need for robust security solutions for data transmission over the Internet. Traditional encryption techniques could become insecure in the future due to advances in quantum computing and new hacking methods. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is emerging as a promising alternative, as it is based on the principles of quantum mechanics and enables information-theoretically secure encryption. However, there is a significant gap between ideal mathematical QKD protocols and their practical implementation in real hardware. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach to bridge this gap between theory and practice.
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Raphael Wibmer
Funding authority: FFG
Duration: 2024-2027
EnCycLEd - Enhancing Cyber Literacy in Education
The project aims to promote knowledge and awareness of cyber security and to train students and teachers to develop key digital skills and competencies.
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Astrid Bötticher
Funding authority: Erasmus+
Duration: 2023-2026
Data protection, autonomy, mobility
The project examines the data protection challenges posed by the use of autonomous vehicles. The aim is to develop solutions that make it possible to use the data required for the mobility sector in a way that is both practical and compliant with data protection requirements.
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Henry Ogunrinde
Presse: Top Tirol and Uni-Presse
Duration: 2023 - 2026
EMERGENCY-VRD Moral Emergencies and Autonomous Driving
The goal of the project is to collaborate with partners to conduct a research-based legal analysis of empirical studies on the legal regulation of moral dilemmas caused by automated and autonomous vehicles.
Team: Lando Kirchmair, Héctor Candray Medina, Yuying Wang
Funding authority: Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBwM)
Duration: 2025-2026
Mozart
Definition of Requirements for QKD Solutions for the Federal Central Fallback System
This project aims to examine the technical feasibility of a secure key exchange using QKD (both terrestrial and space-based) between the Federal Central Fallback System (ZAS) in St. Johann im Pongau and the Vienna government network. In addition, the design of a prototype terrestrial QKD solution will be considered, and a design for a prototype (free) space QKD application will be provided (both in the laboratory).
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Raphael Wibmer
Funding authority: FFG
Partner: AIT Austria Institut of Technology GmbH, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich,
Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung, Quantum Technology Laboratories GmbH
Duration: 2026-2028
IQEL: Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab
Innsbruck is a leading center for quantum research. The innovative potential associated with quantum technology can drive social transformation. Technical developments must therefore always be examined for their impact on people and society and be accompanied by ethical considerations. At the same time, the freedom to create something new must be preserved through and in the face of regulation. Within this tension, the Innsbruck Quantum Ethics Lab (IQEL) aims to create societal value and ensure that governance approaches do not lead to either a loss of innovation or social costs.
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Caroline Böck, Martin Müller
Duration: 2022-
EuRepoC
The project is creating a web-based dashboard on cyber operations and conducting a legal and technical assessment. In particular, we will address the specification of cyber attack assessment processes through attribution and factual characteristic indicators so that Europeanization effects in the assessment of cyber operations are made measurable and deficiencies systematically identifiable.
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Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Martin Müller
Partner: SWP Berlin, Universität Heidelberg
Funding authority: German Federal Foreign Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Duration: 2022-2024
Trustworthy AI Lab
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Team: Matthias C. Kettemann
Partner: 40+ Labs in Europa
Duration: 2024-
Former Projects
Self-image on social media among young people
In the project with the University of Graz, funded by the ÖAW, we investigate together with young people the issues that arise in digital self-representation and how young people deal with authenticity, data-driven disempowerment and technological empowerment.
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Mission-Vision Statement mit Forderungen
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Der Standard: "Gefilterte Schönheitsideale auf Social Media: Jugendliche fordern Änderungen"
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann
Partner: Universität Graz
Funding authority: ÖAW
Duration: 2022
The Civil Procedural Enforcement of Union Law
Procedural Autonomy of the Member States? This project is dedicated to disclose whether EU law (enabled by case law of the ECJ) influences national civil procedural laws of EU member states. Does the oftentimes cited procedural autonomy of the states really exist? And what leads to conflicts between the national procedural laws and the civil procedural law as declared by the ECJ?
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Team: Malte Kramme, Maria Paulmichl
Funding authority: DFG
Duration: 2022-2023
Plattform://Democracy
The project investigates how rules and algorithmic attention management can be linked back to platforms and assesses globally how private orders are oriented towards public values.
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Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Meryem Vural, Alex Fischer
Partners: Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut, Humboldt-Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft
Funding authority: Mercator-Stiftung
Laufzeit: 2022-2023
Digital Diversity Law Lab
The DDLL pilots the mainstreaming of diversity in research, teaching, organizational practice, and civil society/third mission with a special focus on the digital constellation: a legal and social science experimental laboratory that consults with strong partners teaching, designs AI development in a diversity-sensitive manner, conducts diversity checks, and reflects insights from diversity research into society in a target group-sensitive manner. Oriented towards the diversity strategy of the University of Innsbruck, the Lab is based on an innovative trilateral approach to highlight diversity as a guiding star of organizational, knowledge and impact practice.
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Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Caroline Voithofer, Felicitas Rachinger, Clara Rauchegger
Funding authority: Förderkreis 1669
Duration: 2022-2023
REGROUP
REGROUP (Rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic) aims to provide the European Union with a body of actionable advice on how to rebuild post-pandemic governance and public policies in an effective and democratic way; anchored to a map of the socio-political dynamics and consequences of Covid-19; and an empirically-informed normative evaluation of the pandemic. The project aims to impact major EU debates and events, such as the Health Union, the Green Deal, the Digital Decade, the Economic Governance Review, the Conference on the Future of Europe, and the 2024 European Parliament elections.
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Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Caroline Böck
Partners: 15 european universities
Funding authority: EU Horizon 2020
Duration: 2022-2024
Global Digital Human Rights Network
The GDHRNet COST Action will systematically explore the theoretical and practical challenges posed by the digital world to the protection of human rights. The network will address whether international human rights law is sufficiently detailed to enable governments and private online companies to understand their respective obligations vis-à-vis human rights protection online. It will evaluate how national governments have responded to the task of providing a regulatory framework for online companies and how these companies have transposed the obligation to protect human rights and combat hate speech online into their community standards.
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Team: Clara Rauchegger, Matthias C. Kettemann, Felicitas Rachinger
Partners: 50 european and iternational universities (Lead: Universität Tallinn)
Funding authority: EU COST Action
Duration: 2022-2024
exoATwork
Together with partners from industry and science, we investigate the legal and ethical issues that arise when exoskeletons are used in everyday work.
Team: Matthias C. Kettemann, Caroline Voithofer
Partners: 20 academic and business partners
Funding authority: FFG
Duration: 2022-2024
ArtiPro – Artificial intelligence for personalized medicine in depression
The aim of the ArtiPro consortium is to establish a data and analysis platform that combines data from already existing clinical research projects on individual therapy response in depression in order to determine robust multimodal biomarkers and to establish prediction profiles for response to drug therapies in depression by using artificial intelligence. For this purpose, data on therapy course and therapy responses from existing clinical research projects are combined and integrated into a complex data platform for evaluations. Clara Rauchegger is in charge of the legal part of this project and is particularly focusing on data protection aspects of ArtiPro.
Team: Clara Rauchegger, Lena Lagger
Funding authority: ERA PerMed (ERA-Net Personalized Medicin), European Commission and FWF
Duration: 2022-2025