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At its general assembly today, the ZEW – Sponsors’ Association for Science and Practice elected Dr. Ralph Rheinboldt, board member at Fuchs Petrolub SE, as its chair. In addition, the extended board, including four newly appointed members, was confirmed.

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Professor Achim Wambach, president of ZEW Mannheim, is leaving the German Monopolies Commission after two terms of office. He was a member of the commission from July 2014 to June 2022 and its chairman from March 2016 to September 2020. The federal government appointed Professor Tomaso Duso as his successor. Wambach was particularly involved in the further development and critical monitoring of competition among online platforms, in the areas of energy and health, as well as on the topic of distortions of competition in international trade, including in China.

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The Volksbank Weinheim Stiftung and ZEW Mannheim have given the “Future of the Working World” research award 2021 to Dr. Jan Kinne. In his work, Kinne demonstrates that with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), company website contents can be evaluated online with high-frequency and in a fully automated manner. Currently, such searches are mainly done manually by specialised companies, i.e. by humans. He applies this method to analyse, for example, the innovation activity of companies and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses.

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The ZEW – Sponsors’ Association for Science and Practice at ZEW Mannheim has a new chairman: Dr. Ralph Rheinboldt, board member at Fuchs Petrolub SE, succeeds CEO of MVV Energie AG, Dr. Georg Müller, on 1 February 2022. After more than five successful years, Dr. Müller will retire from his position at the ZEW Sponsors’ Association for health reasons. Rheinboldt has already been a board member at the ZEW Sponsors’ Association since 2017.

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A large number of ZEW survey participants took the opportunity to voluntarily donate part of their expense allowance to the city of Mannheim for urban reforestation initiatives in preparation for the 2023 German National Garden Show (BUGA). A total of 2,809.40 euros was passed on to the “Bundesgartenschau Mannheim 2023 gGmbH”. The money was used to plant four Caucasian wingnuts in the eastern part of the newly emerging Käfertal park bowl in May 2021. Looking at the survey results, it can be seen that the willingness of participants to donate trees is significantly greater than the willingness to voluntarily offset CO2 by retiring certificates from emissions trading.

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The issue of sustainability has been of great importance for ZEW Mannhein for many years. In 2017, the institute signed the WIN Charter of the State of Baden-Württemberg, thereby committing to economic, ecological and social sustainability. In the recently published sustainability report for 2019, ZEW provides information on the progress the institute has made towards sustainability.

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At its most recent general assembly, the ZEW Sponsors’ Association for Science and Practice re-elected Dr. Georg Müller, chief executive at MVV Energie AG, as its chairman. Treasurer Claudia Diem, board member at BW-Bank, and Dr. Ralf Krieger, board member at Freudenberg SE, were re-elected as well. Besides reconfirming these members in their position, the Sponsors’ Association’s general assembly agreed to expand the programme offered to its members.

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Greenpay, the project of the secondary school Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium team from Weinheim, Germany, received a unanimous decision at the finals of the “YES! – Young Economic Summit” competition for students in Hamburg on 26 and 27 September 2019, winning this year’s competition. The student group was supervised by economist Carina Fugger from the Research Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management” at ZEW Mannheim. As in the previous years 2017 and 2018, a team mentored by ZEW outshone all other student teams in the Germany-wide competition.

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In the 2018 business year, the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim continued its strategic expansion into a competence centre for market and institutional design, which had already begun in 2017. The ZEW Annual Report 2018, which this year is published in a completely new and modern design that includes infographics and a focus on digitisation, provides information on the steps taken to achieve this strategic expansion.

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Two high school teams mentored by the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim have won the regional preliminary round of the nationwide high school economic competition YES! – Young Economic Summit and will compete in the grand final in Hamburg in September 2019. The Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium from Weinheim and the Engelsburg-Gymnasium from Kassel impressed with their ideas at the regional final at ZEW.

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