Scholars at Risk

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Scholars at Risk (SAR):

--> Read: Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) responses to the recent U.S. executive order on immigration (as of Feb. 1, 2017)

“Scholars at Risk is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. “

Since long and even more in our days around the world, scholars are threatened because of their research, their ideas, and their place in society. SAR takes action whenever scholars are being restricted in their academic freedom while doing research, teaching, and learning.

 

Scholars at Risk -  German section

The German Section of the global Scholars at Risk Network is composed of German universities, research institutions and science organisations that campaign to support and offer sanctuary to researchers under threat as well as to protect academic freedom.

KIT is a founding member of the German Section of the Scholars at Risk Network:

On 20th September 20 universities and research facilities have founded the German Section of the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) in Bonn, in order to be able to communicate about possibilities for the support of threatened researchers and to draw attention to the infringement of academic freedom.
The German Section is part of the international Scholars at Risk Network (SAR), in which higher education institutions are working together worldwide. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will host the secretariat of the German Section until March 2022.

 

Press release on the establishment of the German Section of the Scholars at Risk Network 

 

 Members of the SAR-Germany Section: Universities and Research facilities

 

 

Contact - SAR-representative at KIT:  Dr. Petra Roth

 

 

Open letter by the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany

 

Reacting to a new law which  envisages the restructuring of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the  Alliance of Science organizations in Germany addressed an open letter  to Hungary´s  Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in an appeal for the freedom of science.

Open letter by the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany (english)

 

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