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Here you will find a greeting for the Democracy Week.
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As self-evident as democracy may seem today, it is not.

Democracy is historically young in Germany. It is fragile, contested and has opponents all over the world; it must be understood, practiced and brought forth - especially in education and at university.
the university. Even in teaching, research and administration at universities, democracy is
is not a matter of course, but a process that requires a great deal of preconditions and is prone to failure,
heterogeneous and controversial subject of research as well as a flawed practice that is often unaware of its own deficits.
often unaware of its own shortcomings. Making democracy the explicit subject of university teaching
of university teaching, to discuss its theoretical diversity, to critically examine it as a social power
and institutional practice - in other words: to strip it of its normality - is the aim of a
the aim of a Democracy Week, which will take place from May 21 to 24, 2024 in the core curriculum.