The "March for Science" last year brought more than one million people to the streets worldwide. In Germany alone over 37,000 people in 22 locations demonstrated for the freedom of science and research. This year on April 14 demonstrations and events will take place in at least 15 German cities. As in the previous year the Giordano Bruno Stiftung will support the "March for Science 2018" not only idealistically but also financially.

On March 6, 2008, the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons decided on the application of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs to put the religion-critical children's book "Wo bitte geht's zu Gott? fragte das kleine Ferkel" ("Which is the way to God, please?, asked the little piglet") on the "Index for Media Harmful to Young Persons". If the ministerial proposal had been successful, the "little piglet" would have been remembered as probably the first "R-rated children's book" in history. On occasion of the 10th anniversary of the "piglet rescue", Alibri Verlag published a book documenting the "great dispute on the little piglet".

The Evokids educational material for teaching evolution in primary schools has been admitted to the "Scientix" programme of the European Commission. Teachers can now request translations of the teaching material into all European languages without charge. "This brings us one step closer to the ambitious goal of establishing the teaching of evolution not only at German but also at international schools," say the heads of the Evokids project Dittmar Graf (Institute for Didactics of Biology in Giessen) and Michael Schmidt-Salomon (Giordano Bruno Stiftung).

As early as 1965, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the Basic Law obliges the state as the "home of all citizens" to "philosophical and religious neutrality". In practice, however, this legal principle is frequently violated. The "Institut für Weltanschauungsrecht" (ifw - Institute for Secular Law) seeks to counteract this deficiency.