Principal Investigator Steffen Mau was mentioned for his participation, along with writers Judith Schalansky and Ingo Schulze among others, on a bus tour through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Organised by the publicist Matthias Greffrath, the aim of this tour was to encourage voter participation and initiate a public debate before the German parliamentary elections this September. Read the full report or listen to the audio report by the public radio station Deutschlandfunk here (both in German).