Aktuell erreicht das Projekt eine entscheidende Phase: 
Aus ersten Ideen und Pretotypes werden konkrete, belastbare Prototypen. 

Damit wird sichtbar:

• wie datenbasierte Lösungen im Tourismus tatsächlich aussehen können
• wo sie echten Mehrwert schaffen
• und was es braucht, damit sie in der Praxis funktionieren

Konkrete Umsetzung: Mobility Hub Prototyp

Wir als Deutsche Institut für Gutes Leben (difgl) arbeitet im Projekt nicht nur konzeptionell, sondern bauen gemeinsam mit 
Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg, Gut Boltenhof und Fraunhofer FIT einen Prototypen für den DIANA T – Mobility Hub. 

Ziel ist es, Mobilitätsangebote vor Ort datenbasiert zu verknüpfen und damit de verkehrstechnische Anbindung vor Ort konkret zu verbessern.

Praxis als Maßstab

Die aktuellen Entwicklungen zeigen deutlich: 
Technologie entfaltet ihren Mehrwert erst dann, wenn sie in konkreten Anwendungen erprobt wird. 

Einblick in die Ergebnisse

Weitere Informationen und Einblicke in die Projektergebnisse finden sich unter: 
👉 www.diana-t.de (Bereich „Publikationen“) 

Dank an das Konsortium

Ein besonderer Dank gilt allen Partner*innen im Projekt DIANA-T für die enge Zusammenarbeit.

Im Workshop „KI im Handwerk – Was hat das mit mir zu tun?“, zu dem das Kompetenzzentrum Berliner Handwerker*innen im Rahmen des Learning Circles Nachhaltigkeit in Kooperation mit der Handwerkskammer Berlin einlädt, werden genau diese Fragen praxisnah beleuchtet.

Katja Anclam, Geschäftsführerin von difgl und KI-Expertin, gibt gemeinsam mit Carmen Albrecht (Beraterin für Innovation und Technologie sowie Betriebsberaterin für nachhaltige Unternehmensführung bei der Handwerkskammer Berlin) Einblicke in die Potenziale und Herausforderungen von KI im Arbeitsalltag. Neben einer verständlichen Einführung in grundlegende Konzepte stehen konkrete Anwendungsbeispiele und die Einordnung gesellschaftlicher Auswirkungen im Fokus.

Die Teilnehmenden erhalten die Möglichkeit, Perspektiven für den eigenen Arbeitskontext zu entwickeln und sich mit anderen über den Einsatz von KI im Handwerk auszutauschen.

Termine: 06.05. und 20.05.2026
Ort: Berlin
Teilnahme: kostenfrei

Der Workshop richtet sich an Handwerker*innen, die sich mit den Auswirkungen und Einsatzmöglichkeiten von KI in ihrem Arbeitsumfeld auseinandersetzen möchten.

Mehr Infos hier: https://kompetenzimhandwerk.de/event/herzliche-einladung-zum-workshop-ki-im-handwerk-was-hat-das-mit-mir-zu-tun-dein-werkzeug-deine-entscheidung/

A conversation with Vincenzo Latronico about gentrification on the London Berlin Democracy podcast

Stay tuned for the new episode!

Our podcast hosts, filmmaker Sabine Pusch and Public Policy Advisor Dr. Robert Keeling, speak with Italian author Vincenzo Latronico about his highly acclaimed novel Perfection, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.

The novel traces the seemingly perfect life of a foreign couple in gentrified Berlin – and serves as a starting point for a discussion about urban change processes in two metropolises.

Together, we discuss how Berlin has changed since Covid and in what ways the controversial topic of gentrification is being negotiated there: While the city continues to live off its reputation as an open, resistant cultural metropolis, many neighborhoods are increasingly under pressure. Creative spaces are disappearing faster than new ones are being created, and the gap between political aspiration and urban reality is becoming more noticeable.

A look at London shows parallel but differently timed developments: Gentrification often started earlier and harder there – with long-term consequences such as deeper social divides, radically transformed neighborhoods and an everyday life that is increasingly shaped by the global real estate market.

We ask: Which patterns are similar, which developments differ – and what do they reveal about the future of urban democracy?

The podcast will be released tomorrow morning on all major platforms!

Our team led by Sina Heider organized, supervised, and documented the event. In addition to Sina Heider, Steffen Kottkamp was also responsible for the editorial work for the film. For us, this was a good opportunity to show how we work: We plan formats, produce media, and support projects in becoming visible – both internally and externally.

Every event brings its own requirements. That’s why we always look first: What is really needed?
Sometimes it’s a video, sometimes a short social media insight, or simply good organization in the background. At the DGT conference, it was a mixture of everything.

Thanks to Matthias Kindler for the support, to our great keynote speakers and panel guests, to the team at TU Berlin and the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Tourismus!

Today it is clear that the idea is more important than ever.

Where is SPLEE today?

Together with renowned designers, we have built the website www.splee.eu, which already shows in prototype form how a European platform can function.
All published texts are translated into key European languages using AI, so that barriers that have limited Europe’s discourses are now easily overcome for the first time.

At the same time, visualizations of news flows have been developed – experimental analyses that make patterns, strategies and parameters of media discourses visible. These data-journalistic experiments are the first building blocks for a deeper understanding of European media landscapes.

SPLEE is currently focusing on sustainable business models and the preparation of follow-up projects – in particular for the further development of automated, AI-supported translations and for scaling the platform.

Our most important learning

Technology alone is not enough. For European data sovereignty, we need the opportunity for genuine discourse.
Our work to date has shown that three things need to be combined for this:

• clear, well-thought-out interfaces,
• consistent user orientation,
• and quality content that creates trust.

In particular, the interdisciplinary exchange between media studies, design, technology and journalism has had a decisive impact on SPLEE. At the same time, our research clearly shows that the dominance of American platforms – and their focus on short, fast news – narrows the European discourse space. A platform like SPLEE, which makes longreads and essays from all over the EU accessible, can make an important democratic and economic contribution here.

How to proceed

Now a new phase begins:

• Building a European network of media partners
• Further development of the prototype into a fully functional platform
• Intensification of license and business models
• Improvement of AI-supported translation processes
• Expansion of data-journalistic visualizations
• Development of a European user community

SPLEE is a work in progress – a project with a future.
Because Europe continues to need political and economic structures AND a common public sphere.

We will continue to work on it.
Together, European and with a vision that is more important than ever.

With “Art.Culture.AI,” difgl strengthens future competencies at the intersection of art, culture, and science.

In workshops, training sessions, and impulse formats, we impart practical knowledge on AI literacy, tools, and technology trends – specifically tailored to the unique needs of the cultural and media sector.

Thanks to our interface expertise between AI, technology, media, and culture, we have developed our own programs that are consistently practice-oriented.
Our mission: A good life and more freedom in art and culture – and an awareness of AI’s limitations.

We develop concrete application scenarios for AI – from creative production and curatorial processes to communication with audiences and society.
Art.Culture.AI understands Artificial Intelligence not as a replacement, but as a catalyst for creative future processes – and for a good life in cultural coexistence.

At the Tourism Day of the Zugspitzregion in the AURA-HOTEL Saulgrub, everything revolved around sustainability, accessibility, and digitalization – and how these topics can be experienced in everyday life.

Together with Christoph Henseler, Managing Director of the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Tourismus, our colleague Katja Anclam was on site for difgl. Their joint workshop focused on the opportunities of digitalization for tourism businesses – practical, interactive, and with many impulses for SMEs.

A real highlight was the venue itself: the AURA-HOTEL Saulgrub, supported by the Bavarian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired e.V. – a place that shows what lived accessibility means. It is impressive how naturally inclusion and hospitality interact here.

The future of tourism is not created alone – but together.