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The public launch of the lecture series "How to deal with right-wing extremism" on 11 November 2025 was a wake-up call for many in the audience: racism criticism expert Tupoka Ogette spoke to the fully crowded Logensaal about how uncomfortable it can be for white people to free themselves from racist imprints and thought patterns, what this means for everyday university life and how thinking and living in a way that is critical of racism helps to counter the growth of right-wing extremism.

Elisa Lehrer, Lilo Meier and Anna Rößner no longer just wanted to worry about democracy. With the desire for more self-efficacy for themselves and students, the lecturers from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics designed the seminar "Democracy in Crisis?" in the summer semester of 2025. They invited experts from all Faculties, went on excursions and simulated European politics. Together with their students, they explored the questions that are putting democracy under pressure.

German commitment to peace in current conflicts, Ukrainian protest, digital entrepreneurship and computer games as a business model - these are the topics with which the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) is taking part in the Long Night of Science in Berlin for the first time this year. The science festival will take place on Saturday, 28 June, from 17:00. Viadrina researchers can be seen between 5.00 pm and midnight in the Main Building of the Humboldt-Universität, Unter den Linden 6, room 1072.

Who is researching which topics at the Viadrina? Which projects have received funding, which works have been honoured with prizes? And how is the reform process at the European University going? Answers to these and other questions can be found in the newly published annual report "Viadrina 2024". On Wednesday, 14 May, Prof. Dr Eduard Mühle, President of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), presented the booklet at a media conference.