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On October 10, 2023, the research project MINDSET_Clean_H2 organised a workshop about the hydrogen economy in Germany and France at TU Munich. Researchers as well as stakeholders from industry participated. Franziska Holz and Lukas Barner represented the project team from DIW Berlin and presented recent research results on the availability of water for electrolysis in Germany. The research project ...

Strategic Controlling Unit Team

Strategic Controlling Unit Team

Institutional Cooperations

As professional exchange is a prerequisite for excellence in research, policy consulting, early career development and infrastructure provision, it plays an important role in DIW Berlin’s work. National and international networks enrich the institute’s scientific research while holding researchers to global academic standards. DIW Berlin’s research departments and SOEP actively partake in collaborative ...

Conference on the Heat Transition on 8 December in Berlin: Focus on Political and Social Science Perspectives

On December 8, 2025, DIW Berlin co-hosted the conference on the heat transition organized by the accompanying research BEWEGT on the EUREF campus. The conference brought together numerous contributions from political and social sciences and clearly showed how diverse social science research on the heating transition has become. The focus was on questions that are crucial for the success of the heating ...

Age and Gender Differences in Narcissism: A Comprehensive Study Across Eight Measures and over 250,000 Participants

Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little is known about age and gender differences across various narcissism measures. The present study investigated age and gender differences and their interactions across eight widely used narcissism instruments (i.e., Narcissistic ...

The Dynamics of Recent Refugees’ Language Acquisition: How Do Their Pathways Compare to Those of Other New Immigrants?

Do the processes underlying destination-language acquisition differ between recently arrived refugees and other new immigrants? Based on a well-established model of language learning according to which language fluency is a function of efficiency, incentives, and exposure, this study addresses general processes of language learning as well as conditions specific to refugees. Longitudinal data on refugees ...

Response Quality in Nonprobability and Probability-based Online Panels

Recent years have seen a growing number of studies investigating the accuracy of nonprobability online panels; however, response quality in nonprobability online panels has not yet received much attention. To fill this gap, we investigate response quality in a comprehensive study of seven nonprobability online panels and three probability-based online panels with identical fieldwork periods and questionnaires ...

New DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogue event series launched

The Berlin-based "DIW-OECD industrial strategy dialogues" event series was launchend on December 8. It provides a platform for dialogue between key stakeholders from policy, business, society, and academia to discuss cutting-edge research and which industrial strategies can work for Germany, Europe and their global partners to address the major challenges of our time. Successful industrial strategies ...

Split Questionnaire Designs as a Clever Way to Make Surveys Shorter

Revision and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Human Values Scale for Self-completion Modes

Since its first round, the European Social Survey (ESS) has included a 21-item measure of ten basic human values shared across cultures, known as the Human Values Scale (HVS), developed by Shalom H. Schwartz. Recently, the scale has been revised to a new 20-item HVS with shorter, simpler items (usually only one sentence instead of two sentences per item in the past version) and introducing a single ...