You are here: Homepage Countries Europe Themen All Themes From To filter Children play in front of corrugated iron huts in the Spanish informal settlement of Cañada Real. Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/ Getty Images Informal Settlements | Worldwide “The first slums were in Europe” Many people think of informal settlements as something that only exists in the Global South - but there are also slums in Europe. Geoscientist Monika Kuffer maps these areas all over the world, making the invisible visible Interview with Monika Kuffer 11/27/2024 Desertification | Rumania “We are losing fertile land every year” Why are deserts increasing worldwide? An interview with the Romanian meteorologist Roxana Bojariu Interview with Roxana Bojariu 01/26/2024 Literature | International I think that art needs time to emerge In a world of fast-moving news about the War in Ukraine and climate change, it is often hard to focus and take time to create art. But literature works on a different clock: It needs time to form and silence to emerge. By Cécile Wajsbrot 01/09/2023 Welcome to the European Union Illustration: TengMeu Cultural policy | Europe Welcome to the club! In the light of the Ukraine war, Europe needs to allow new countries to join and also strengthen its cultural policy. After all, the European Union is first and foremost a cultural project By Gijs de Vries 07/01/2022 From the event Being Sensitive at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus, with Naika Foroutan (on the wall screen) and Svenja Flaßpöhler (right), moderated by Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (left) Photo: Literaturhaus Stuttgart Black and white thinking Changing our mindset Who has the right to speak and what can be said? The philosopher Svenja Flaßpöhler and the sociologist Naika Foroutan discuss inclusive language, and the fight for equality. A conversation. Interview with Svenja Flaßpöhler, Naika Foroutan 04/14/2022
Children play in front of corrugated iron huts in the Spanish informal settlement of Cañada Real. Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/ Getty Images Informal Settlements | Worldwide “The first slums were in Europe” Many people think of informal settlements as something that only exists in the Global South - but there are also slums in Europe. Geoscientist Monika Kuffer maps these areas all over the world, making the invisible visible Interview with Monika Kuffer 11/27/2024
Desertification | Rumania “We are losing fertile land every year” Why are deserts increasing worldwide? An interview with the Romanian meteorologist Roxana Bojariu Interview with Roxana Bojariu 01/26/2024
Literature | International I think that art needs time to emerge In a world of fast-moving news about the War in Ukraine and climate change, it is often hard to focus and take time to create art. But literature works on a different clock: It needs time to form and silence to emerge. By Cécile Wajsbrot 01/09/2023
Welcome to the European Union Illustration: TengMeu Cultural policy | Europe Welcome to the club! In the light of the Ukraine war, Europe needs to allow new countries to join and also strengthen its cultural policy. After all, the European Union is first and foremost a cultural project By Gijs de Vries 07/01/2022
From the event Being Sensitive at the Stuttgart Literaturhaus, with Naika Foroutan (on the wall screen) and Svenja Flaßpöhler (right), moderated by Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (left) Photo: Literaturhaus Stuttgart Black and white thinking Changing our mindset Who has the right to speak and what can be said? The philosopher Svenja Flaßpöhler and the sociologist Naika Foroutan discuss inclusive language, and the fight for equality. A conversation. Interview with Svenja Flaßpöhler, Naika Foroutan 04/14/2022
