European Universities Initiative kicks off in Brussels

In CIVICA alliance, Hertie School is part of the European Commission’s transnational higher education project.

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Video: Francis Fukuyama reflects on the post-Berlin Wall era

Panel discussion focuses on lessons from 1989 for coping with current threats to liberal democracy.

In China with the German President

Daniela Stockmann was part of the President’s delegation to China, focused on ethics and digitalisation.

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DAAD supports European Universities Initiative with 28 million euros

The initiative includes the seven-member CIVICA Alliance, of which the Hertie School is a member.

Hertie School selected as first German member of APSIA

Hertie School joins the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) as the thirty-ninth member and first German university.

New library resources in 2020

The Hertie School library has licensed new electronic resources for the year 2020.

A decade of “aimless complacency”

Germany neglected structural investments in the 2010s, Henrik Enderlein says on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Alumni video: Meet Alexandru Rusu (MPP 2009)

Handling healthcare policy at one of Germany’s biggest companies.

Citizen dialogues show Germans want comprehensive healthcare reform

Robert Bosch Stiftung, Hertie School project “Restart” publishes results of German healthcare talks.

The nexus between democracy, government performance and well-being

Helmut Anheier leads 2019 Berggruen Governance Index research on 38 countries.

New book on transnational problem-solving

Arjun Appadurai and Marcel Fratzcher debate approaches to big global challenges.

PhD profile: Leveraging insights from social entrepreneurs

Alexandra Ioan’s journey from community organiser to research designer to system changer.

What's new? Lancet Countdown | Alina Mungiu-Pippidi's book | Jacques Delors Centre

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Why 2020 is our chance to globally strengthen national climate policy

MPP student Megan Mattes outlines in The Governance Post how activists can leverage the Paris Agreement’s built-in Ratchet Mechanism to pressure governments.

Wolfgang Ischinger and Henrik Enderlein part of new Transatlantic Task Force

German Marshall Fund and Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung initiative to tackle pressing transatlantic challenges.

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The impact of data-driven political campaigning

Andrea Römmele is Germany country expert in ERC grant-funded research project.

Germany's social democrats gamble on new party leaders

"The inward turn of the SPD will give the already rapidly changing party system a further push," writes Anke Hassel in The Guardian.

What’s in store for Germany’s grand coalition?

Andrea Römmele discusses the current impasse with German TV ZDF, Deutschlandfunk radio and others.

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