Professor Solveig Richter, a political scientist at Leipzig University, has been appointed by the German government to the “Platform Wiederaufbau Ukraine”, an initiative to help rebuild the country that will begin its work with a kick-off event in Berlin on Monday (27 March).
Urban inequality in Europe and the United States is so severe that urban elites claim most of the benefits from the agglomeration effects that big cities provide, while large parts of urban populations get little to nothing. In a study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers at Linköping…
Leipzig University has been admitted as an associate member to the German-Colombian Peace Institute CAPAZ. CAPAZ is a Centre of Excellence in Research and Teaching of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and supports scholars and universities from Colombia and Germany in the fields of peace…
Dr. Megan Maruschke recently took up the Assistant Professorship for Global Studies at Leipzig University and talks about her goals for the next years.
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