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Economic expert Christoph M. Schmidt accompanied the KAS for a year

Report on the KAS-Fellowship 2025: Christoph M. Schmidt on innovation, the social market economy, growth potential and Germany’s international competitiveness

The capacity for innovation is a central pillar of the German economy. What framework conditions must policymakers create to strengthen innovation and growth? Through numerous meetings, conversations and discussions, Christoph M. Schmidt has advocated for a greater willingness to reform in line with the principles of the social market economy. Against the backdrop of global economic policy shifts, he has raised new perspectives, shared insights and proposed solutions. Through numerous written contributions, information and reflections, this report documents the recent KAS Fellowship 2025. 

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph M. Schmidt, Tim Peter, Dr. Andreas Jacobs
September 3, 2026
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KALUZA + SCHMID Studio, Berlin

The Berlin Annual Review

Analysis and Retrospective of the Federal Constitutional Court’s Case Law in 2025

The Berlin Annual Review on the Federal Constitutional Court’s case Law in 2025 focused on two judgements and one order of extraordinary interest for the public eye and warranted discussion from the perspective of legal policy. Examining potential solutions to the dilemmas of triage in extreme situations, state responsibility regarding military force used by alliance partners, and the institutional safeguarding of the domestic constitutional judiciary vividly demonstrated the significance of the standards established in Karlsruhe.

Dr. Tobias Weimer, Dr. med. Andrej Michalsen, Prof. Dr. Angelika Nußberger, Prof. Dr. Günter Krings, Prof. (em.) Dr. Dr. h. c. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolf, Prof. Dr. Christian Hillgruber
August 28, 2026
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The Value of Global Health

An Evidence-Based Analysis of the Benefits of Germany’s Financial and Structural Engagement in Global Health

Germany is a key actor in global health policy. Amid fiscal consolidation pressures and a shifting political discourse, increasing attention is being paid to the national benefits of Germany’s engagement in global health and development cooperation. This study addresses that question and demonstrates that global health engagement is neither altruistic nor dispensable. Investments in prevention, health systems, research, and international cooperation save lives, strengthen partnerships, and simultaneously serve Germany’s own interests.

Lukas Lingenthal
August 6, 2026
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KALUZA + SCHMID Studio GmbH

After the Baby Boomers

How demographic change will unfold beyond 2030

Demographic ageing does not end with the retirement of the baby boomers. In the coming decades, the challenges are likely to shift increasingly from the labour market and pensions towards care, housing and regional services. The analysis shows that ageing does not unfold in the same way everywhere. While many eastern German regions were affected early on, rural areas in western Germany are facing a sharp increase in the oldest age groups. Policymakers and municipalities should therefore start planning early.

Catherina Hinz, Frederick Sixtus
July 29, 2026
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KAS

Building trust, overcoming distance

Outreach civic education in the practice of the Democracy Bus and the Dorfliebe Tour

Outreach civic education starts where people live and spend their everyday lives. The Demokratiegestalter-Tour and Dorfliebe create accessible spaces for dialogue in which citizens can openly articulate their concerns and feel that they are taken seriously. The report shows how personal encounters build trust and encourage people’s willingness to engage in conversation.

Jacques Hermes, Konstantin Gerbrich
July 15, 2026
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KAS

Annual Report 2025

Insights into the year 2025 of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

2025 was an eventful, turbulent and at times unsettling year in politics, business and society in Germany, Europe and the world. Many challenges, both large and small, had a significant impact on the work of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation last year and will continue to accompany us. New, previously unknown tasks will also be added to the agenda, to which we will devote our attention.

March 30, 2026
Annual Reports
KALUZA + SCHMID

Global Economic Governance in a Fragmented World

How Geopolitics Shapes International Cooperation and its Institutions

The global rules-based order is undergoing its most significant stress test since the end of the Second World War. Through this compilation, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung seeks to contribute to ongoing discourse surrounding the future of global governance within the realms of economic and trade policy. The focus is on the institutions via which global governance is exercised. Four chapters offer a multi‑dimensional perspective on the challenges and potential pathways for the future architecture of global economic governance.

Gunter Rieck Moncayo, Christian E. Rieck, Keith Rockwell, Edmund Terence Gomez, Nikolaus Rischbieter
March 27, 2026
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KAS

The development of nihilistic violence

Terrorism without a goal?

Nihilistic violent extremism (NVE) is a violent scene that has been growing since the second half of the 2010s. Members of the community reject civil society values, have a misanthropic worldview, communicate primarily via online platforms and are internationally networked. Children and adolescents can be both perpetrators and victims and switch between these roles.

Felix Neumann
January 8, 2026
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Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.

From research to business: Innovation transfer in Germany

Status, international best practices and perspectives

Economic innovation processes are based on the constant exchange of new knowledge, ideas, technical and organisational expertise that is suitable for commercial exploitation. Both the emergence and diffusion of innovations require extensive networks of different actors – companies, universities, research institutions – who are involved in generating knowledge for innovations, translating this knowledge into marketable innovations, further developing their products and disseminating them as part of their economic activities.

Dr. Michael Rothgang, Dr. Bernhard Lageman
December 17, 2025
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smarterpix / serezniy

Immigration society over time

Attitudes of Germans with and without a migrant background and foreigners living in Germany between 2015 and 2025

The study compares attitudes towards religion and religiosity, life in Germany and various political attitudes over time. Among other things, it examines satisfaction with democracy and the political system, populist attitudes, authoritarianism, anti-Semitism and the legitimisation of violence. These attitudes are analysed separately for people of Turkish, Polish and Russian origin, as well as for ethnic German repatriates.

Dr. Sabine Pokorny
December 6, 2025
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