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Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year from the WZB! May 2025 offer many opportunities to come together and build something new. 

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center invites nominations for the A.SK Social Science Award 2025 and for the A.SK Social Science Bright Mind Award 2025. Since 2007, the main A.SK Award has honoured research on public policy with a focus on economic and governance reform with a prize of 75,000 euros. Past winners include Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu and Esther Duflo.

Major sporting events offer authoritarian regimes an opportunity to improve their image. The effect of 'sportswashing' can be mitigated by critical reporting. This is shown by a study of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Reproduction policy remains on political agendas around the globe. In a new edited volume, WZB sociologist Hannah Zagel, who researches the sociology of the life course, brings together new research on various aspects of reproduction policy, including sex education, contraception, abortion, pregnancy care, and medically assisted reproduction.

Kai Barron and South African health scientists have investigated the effects of South Africa's alcohol ban during the Covid19 pandemic.

Climate change not only affects the environment, it also exacerbates existing social and political tensions and can lead to displacement, conflict and forced migration - the 10th Migration and Diversity Conference from November 27-29 is dedicated to this topic. On November 27 at 5 pm, a public keynote will be held by conflict and peace researcher Halvard Buhaug.

Digitalization has given rise to new forms of employment relationships - less regulated and less secure. A look at India can provide important impulses for German trade unions.