The paper "Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video concerning Verifiable Internet Voting" by Tobias Hilt, Florian Moser, Philipp Matheis, and Melanie Volkamer was awarded the Best Paper Award in the "Governance" track at E-Vote ID 2025. The paper describes the development and evaluation process of an informative video on the topic of online elections. It was emphasized that the paper bridges the gap between research and practical application and provides important insights for society as a whole.

We are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Vanessa as guest of the SECUSO research group in mid October. Prof. Teague is the CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. As part of her visit, she will give a talk titled "Auditing complex elections: what does it take to run a convincing RLA?" within the SECUSO Research Seminar. The talk will take place on October 13th, 11:00-12:00, at Kronenplatz, Building 05.20, Room 5A.09.

The proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote ID 2025) are now published. All contributions in the proceedings are open access. Editors of the book are David Duenas-Cid, Peter Roenne, Melanie Volkamer, Michelle Blom, Pierrick Gaudry, Isabelle Borucki, Leontine Loeber, and Alexandre Debant. E-Vote ID is the leading international event for e-voting experts from around the world. This year, the conference took place from October 1 to 3 in Nancy, France. At the conference, three papers involving SECUSO were presented.

The SECUSO research group is using KIT's Science Week to publicly present the new citizens' panel “Wir forschen digital.” “Wir forschen digital” offers citizens the opportunity to participate in studies on digital technologies. The motto “Your perspective counts!” makes it clear that user feedback is indispensable in the development and research of digital technologies. All study participants receive financial compensation. “Wir forschen digital” will be present at two events during Science Week: on Tuesday, October 14, starting at 6 p.m. at the Market of Opportunities in the Audimax, and at the Citizen Dialogue on Saturday, October 18, starting at 2 p.m. in the Triangel. Here, interested citizens can learn more in personal conversations, participate in a mini-experiment on phishing, or interactively learn about research findings on heat in Karlsruhe. We look forward to seeing everyone who is interested in stopping by! “Wir forschen digital” is a project of SECUSO in collaboration with the Human-Centered Systems Lab and is funded by KASTEL.