Hilde Domin Training Programme in Konstanz
Starting 22 March, the University of Konstanz will provide a four-year training programme for scholarship recipients in the Hilde Domin Training Programme. The goal is to provide continuing education for students in exile.
The four-year Programme provides students with additional training in the social sciences in face-to-face classes in Konstanz as well as online. The topics include democracy, federalism and the rule of law, social integration and the balance of interests, as well as climate change and the effects of the Anthropocene. Ethnographic case studies address the specific situation in students' countries of origin.
Judith Beyer, Professor of Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, initiated the Training Programme together with her colleagues Anke Hoeffler, Wolfgang Seibel and Ulrich Wacker and in collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service and the Federal Foreign Office: "All of the students fled their countries, often because of their own political activism. All of them came to Germany on short notice and because they were in danger. They have no idea whether they can go back or whether they will ever see their families again", Beyer explains.
Get to the news release "Safe space for students at risk".