Challenges of the Present

"Whatever the weather - We must move together" Les Spreekmeester. Marshall Plan Poster 1950

The challenges are manifold: In times of growing worldwide migration (e.g. of refugees fleeing war or climate hazards) and increased mobility and diversity, social cohabitation is progerssively strained by antidemocratic tendencies, authoritarian populism, antisemitism, racism and excluding discourses. Though the globally appearing crises require the exact opposite, namely supranational, amicable and interdisciplinary solution strategies. Whether it is in the crisis of migration, democracy, COVID-19, climate or environment: We want to develop models of thinking which are supposed to bring together science and culture, politics and society, and care for merging the expertise from many specialist fields.