Created by the Assembly of European Regions (AER), the Youth Regional Network (YRN) is a platform of regional-level youth organizations, councils and parliaments from across Europe . The platform works as a forum where young people can influence regional and European policy while exchanging experiences and good practice. At the general Assembly in Vojvodina at the 7th of May 2017, YRN members elected their presidium, which is composed as follows: Read More…
The Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft ( Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science , OSI) has a research institute of the Free University of Berlin and the largest political-scienceinstitution in Germany .
The institute is part of the faculty for political and social sciences. It is named after Otto Suhr , a former mayor of Berlin (1894-1957, SPD ). Read More…
The Bavarian School of Public Policy ( Hochschule für Politik München ) – from the Munich School of Political Science – is an independent institution within the Technical University of Munich. The Bavarian School of Public Policy is a unique institution, focusing on future-oriented, transdisciplinary, and applied research and teaching. In cooperation with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Bavarian School of Public Policy is dedicated to educating the next generation of political scientists. Technological progress in areas like energy, climate change, big data, data security, and mobility is having an important impact on the society. To keep up with tomorrow’s key technologies, the course program provides the opportunity for students to combine the traditional content of a political science degree with technology modules by TUM departments. Read More…
The Bavarian School of Public Policy ( Hochschule für Politik München ) – from the Munich School of Political Science – is an independent institution within the Technical University of Munich. The Bavarian School of Public Policy is a unique institution, focusing on future-oriented, transdisciplinary, and applied research and teaching. In cooperation with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Bavarian School of Public Policy is dedicated to educating the next generation of political scientists. Technological progress in areas like energy, climate change, big data, data security, and mobility is having an important impact on the society. To keep up with tomorrow’s key technologies, the course program provides the opportunity for students to combine the traditional content of a political science degree with technology modules by TUM departments. Read More…
Pensions in Germany are based on a „three pillar system“. [1]
- First pillar: mandatory state pension insurance ( gesetzliche rentenversicherung ). This part of the basic social security system. All employees and employers pay a percentage of wages into this system.
- Second pillar: Voluntary Occupational Pension Insurance
- Third pillar: private insurance
Poverty in Germany refers to people living in relative poverty in Germany .
During the last decades the number of people living in poverty has increased. Children are more likely to be poor than adults. There has been a growth in the number of poor children. In 1965 only one in 75 children lived on welfare, in 2007 one in 6 did. [1] Read More…
Susanne Wiest (born 16 January 1967) is an activist for the unconditional basic income who lives in Greifswald , Germany. [1]
A childcare worker, Susanne Wiest is known in Germany for having launched a petition to the German Parliament [2] asking for the implementation of a basic income of 1,000 Euros a month. The petition went so viral that it did not receive more than 52,000 signatures of support, but the hosting services were overloaded in the last days of the collection, [3] forcing the Bundestag to extend the duration of the petition for one week. [4] Read More…
Götz Wolfgang Werner (born 5 February 1944 in Heidelberg ) is the founder, co-owner, and member of the advisory board of dm-drogerie markt , a German drugstore chain. [1] He led the company for 35 years. From October 2003 till September 2010, he was head of the Cross-Department Group for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . Read More…
The Pirate Party Germany ( German : Piratenpartei Deutschland ), Commonly Known As Pirates (German: Piraten ), is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base . It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet [4] [5] as a party of the information society ; It is part of the international movement of pirate parties and a member of the Pirate Parties International . In 2011/12, the party succeeded in Attaining a high enough voting share to enter oven state Parliaments ( Berlin ,North Rhine-Westphalia , Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein ) [6] and the European Parliament . However, their popularity has declined and by 2017 they have no representation in any of the German state parliaments. Their one European MP, Julia Reda , has joined the Greens / EFA group. Read More…
The Basic income, a cultural impulse is a German-Swiss documentary that promotes the idea of a Basic income . The film, directed by Daniel Häni and Enno Schmidt , was published in 2008. Since then, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian , Japanese, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, and Spanish.
The documentary has been broadcasts 500,000 views by 2012 according to the official website. [1] Versions with subtitles in many languages and dubbed versions in English and Slovak can be viewed on YouTube . Read More…