RadiGaMe Transfer Conference Caps Deradicalisation Cluster
At the RadiGaMe cluster transfer conference, research partners from law, police, civil society, games industry and media gathered to exchange and consolidate their knowledge and research results.
From left: Christoph Hebbecker of Attorney-Generalship Cologne, Levke Burfeind (HateAid), Sebastian Galla (Ruhr University Bochum) and moderator Robert Pelzer (TU Berlin) (GamesMarkt)
On Monday, the transfer conference of RadiGaMe - Radicalisation on Gaming Platforms and Online Messengers took place at Leibniz-Gemeinschaft in Berlin. RadiGaMe is a research cluster of TU Berlin, Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft (IDZ), LKA Berlin, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), LMU Munich, Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung (Modus zad), Munich Innovation Labs and Ruhr University Bochum, and is partnered with the BKA, Violence Prevention Network, Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Cologne, Zentrale Kriminalinspektion Lüneburg and the Amadeu Antonio Stiftung. The program is funded by the Federal Research Ministry and has run for two years, with some parts ending in April 2026, others in October 2026.
From left: Michael Bertram of Police Hanover, Lukas Galinski of Instinct3, Mick Prinz of Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, Marylin Marx of Webedia and moderator Vivienne Ohlenforst of modus zad (GamesMarkt)
At the transfer conference, the different parts of the cluster came together to share their findings in panels and presentations. Part of the event were also partners from the games industry such as Instinct3 as well as from games media such as GamesMarkt and GameStar.
The results of each program point were highly specific results from each project partner's fields, from community management and digital streetwork to criminal law, cybercriminology and police public outreach.