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Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity and often particularly marginalised and disadvantaged groups suffer disproportionately from the consequences of climate change. Clara Leonie Bütow deals with the question of how to best prepare these groups for the consequences of climate change.  Read more...

It is time for our summer break! The alumni team will be on summer holidays for the upcoming weeks.  Read more...

What influence do Big Data and Artificial Intelligence have on democracies? How are these topics regulated and evaluated in the USA and Europe? And what is behind these buzzwords anyway? These are some of the topics our Mercator Fellow researched on in Brussels.  Read more...

The Hertie School and the Netherlands and Hungarian Helsinki Committees are once again connecting leading European human rights defenders in a two-years capacity- and alliance-building programme! Applications are open now for Recharging advocacy for Rights in Europe" (RARE) 2022-2024 until July 24, 2022!  Read more...

The alumni network is growing steadily - and at this year's TEFF Alumni Days in May 2022, after a long time, current and former fellows of the Turkey Europe Future Forum once again had the opportunity to reunite and exchange ideas and news in person. Our alumnus Oliver Rieche reports on the network meeting.  Read more...

Save the Date: meet!-Alumnitreffen am 07. Oktober 2022 in Essen  Read more...

Jogging 4000 kilometres from Harbin to Shenzhen - you can't do that alone! But with the Alumni project "We Run The World", you can run virtually across China with other young people interested in the country. eWxciting stage highlights await along the way - podcasts, live talks with China experts, video contributions, quizzes, etc. on the country, its people and culture and more.  Read more...

Seizing opportunities, thinking outside the box, bringing opposites together: A lot has changed for our alumna Elif Bayat since she took part in the meet! Mercator Europe Tour four years ago. Today she helps other young people on their way to make experiences abroad.  Read more...

You are between 16-27 years old, full of ideas and keen to work in a team with other young people from Germany and Turkey for more understanding and friendship between the countries? You enjoy organising projects or always wanted to know how that works? Then have a look at the current opportunity brought to you by our alumni and friends at Jugendbotschafter e.V. (JuBo)!  Read more...