Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020 ( ARC2020 ) Describes Itself as „a multi-stakeholder platform of over 150 civil society networks and organizations Within 22 EU Member States all pushing for a reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)“. [1] It has been carried out several times to raise awareness among citizens and the political world on the current situation of European agriculture, such as the Good Food March . [2] [3] [4] [5] Read More…
The Agency for the Modernization of Ukraine (AMU) is a nongovernmental organization . The AMU promotes political stability and economic growth within Ukraine . [1] It was founded in March 2015 and is headquartered in Vienna . The former Austrian politician Michael Spindelegger is President of the AMU. Read More…
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…