It is a cold, grey winter's day in January. A young man wakes from his deep sleep and gazes at the ceiling of his room. What time might it be? What sort of day is it today? He does not know. Nothin…
Enormous heat, water scarcity, tree death: all of these are consequences of climate change; events that occurred here in Würzburg last year. Given its location, we can be sure that these "phenomena…
The ballpoint pen used up in the remotest corner, The notebooks full of exercises hidden in the last mess. The knowledge that was once imprinted fades more and more, And what was once structure and…
My phone announces a new message with a lingering "bing". Not that I wasn't already glued to the screen anyway, guiltily killing time on my Instagram feed. It's a forwarded post from the university…
For over 33 years, the youth cultural centre Cairo has offered a space for music, art and educational programmes. Sprachrohr spoke with Petra Irmscher from the management team about what makes Cair…
Future plans – that is no longer a foreign concept for young people. On the contrary, our planning is becoming ever more tightly scheduled, because we ultimately have to adhere to the standards tha…
"As members of the Faculty of Human Sciences (…) [we want] scientific education in which research and teaching are guaranteed at the highest level and are interlocked with one another."
In Japanese, life's purpose or what makes life worth living is called ikigai. Literally translated: life's worth (iki for "life" and gai for "worth"). It is claimed that once a person finds their i…
