They were welcomed to the Wissenschaftsschloss by TU President Tanja Brühl and TU Chancellor Martin Lommel. The visit focused on the diverse contributions that TU Darmstadt makes in research, teaching and xchange to shaping the great challenges of the future. The visitors and members of the Executive Board also discussed how TU Darmstadt's formative role as an innovation driver for the region and the state of Hesse can be further promoted. In dialogue with scientists from the university, Franz and Schmitz were able to gain an impression of the diversity of the university's research projects through two interactive presentations.

Gowri Chandran, Dr Kasra Edalat and Professor Thomas Schneider from the Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO) Group outlined the evolution and progress of cryptography and presented examples of innovations from basic research that are now an integral – and often unnoticed – part of everyday digital communication. With EMC², the participants of the visit were able to test live a tool that enables end-to-end encrypted communication on several channels. The fact that TU Darmstadt is working on future solutions in a network with a wide range of partners was also demonstrated by an insight into a project carried out as part of the cooperation between the Alliance of Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) and the Hamburg Police Academy. The aim was to assess the legal aspects of the exchange of sensitive data between law enforcement agencies and to identify possible technical solutions.