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    • What is academic freedom?

      Academic freedom must be protected! Robert Quinn, Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network, has written an essay on the importance of academic freedom to mark the fifth anniversary of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative in 2021.

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      What is academic freedom?
    • I feared for my life

      In Yemen, Ghanya Al-Nageb experienced how scientists from her faculty disappeared. The nutrition scientist was able to continue her career at the University of Würzburg. Meanwhile, she researches and teaches in Italy.

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      I feared for my life
    • We had absolutely no prospects

      Jeff Wilkesmann had to leave his home country Venezuela in 2017. His university was closed after a military intervention. Time and again, professors in the country disappeared. Thanks to a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, he was able to continue his work at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

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      We had absolutely no prospects
    • A unique opportunity for me

      Anan Alsheikh Haidar fled Syria in 2013. Her work as a professor of criminal law at the University of Damascus had put her name on the blacklist of Bashar al-Assad's government. With a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, she came to the University of Cologne.

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      Scouting Made in Bochum: Two researchers and their mission for more diversity

      She’s a chemist, he’s a philosopher. Both teach and conduct research at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Married couple Martina Havenith-Newen and Albert Newen each have extremely impressive career histories in their own fields and have brought up two daughters. And they did so at a time when dual career was an unknown quantity in Germany. They benefited from the opportunities on offer in the Humboldt Network, a network whose diversity the two hosts are now reinforcing by working as scouts in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme.

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