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Dr. Christopher Gohl in the Bundestag as of May

From May 2021, our colleague Dr. Christopher Gohl will replace Dr. Christian Jung from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the German Bundestag. In the 2017 Bundestag election, the...
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Rethinking education at “Wirkung hoch 100”

A few months ago, the German Stifterverband and its anniversary initiative “Wirkung hoch 100” selected our World Citizen School as one of 100 innovative projects in the field of...
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The Scope of Responsibility

An article by Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel on corporate diligence and responsibility in the supply chain. It burns. On April 24, 2013, more than 1000 people died in...
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Breaking up Digital Monopolies? A Commentary on Australia vs. Facebook

Is breaking up digital monopolies important and right for and in a democracy?In this video commentary Institute professor Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel argues on the occasion of the...
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Weltethos for the “Industry 4.0” of the Pacific Alliance

On March 4, 2021, Ulrich Hemel held a keynote speech in front of 937 participants on the topic of “The Digital Epoch, Industry 4.0 and Digital Humanity”. This was...
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The Data Literacy Charter: Shaping educational processes together for the 21st century

Published on February 12, 2021 This post first appeared on the Blog of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung. Authors: Dr. Henning Koch, Katharina Schüller, Florian Rampelt At the beginning of February...
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Lecture series – Weltethos Talk of the Town: “What can we in Tübingen learn from the Covid crisis?”

The Covid crisis triggered a variety of learning processes in Tübingen and around the world. In our public lecture series, we ask questions every Monday at 6:15 p.m. this...
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“Cultures of Humanity”

The China Centre Tübingen, the Erich Fromm Institute, and the Weltethos Institute are planning more joint events. In Tübingen, the Karl Schlecht Foundation supports not only the Weltethos Institute,...
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“From Humanistic to Mechanistic Economics – and Back?”

The former director of the Institute, Prof. Dr. Claus Dierksmeier, has published an essay on the fundamental connection between ethics and economics. Comparing how Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Adam...
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Financial Populism Using the Example of GameStop

The controversy surrounding the subreddit “Wallstreetbets” and GameStop stock have been causing a stir in social networks and also in the established media for weeks. The “small investor vs....
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