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Events, activities and projects of political and democratic education at the HSZG (from March 2024)

With this overview, we would like to inform you about the topics of democracy and scientifically supported political education at the HSCG in and for our region. It includes activities that are mainly supported by members of the HSZG and are offered on an optional or extracurricular basis.

The aim is to make the university's responsibility as an educational and research institution in the sense of the Third Mission more visible in this field, to promote dialog between the university and society in the region as well as exchange within the university and to create new points of contact.

The overview provides information on activities in 4 categories:

  • Teaching and educational events at the HSZG
  • HSZG events in the region - public & cooperative
  • Research and transfer projects
  • Publications and impulses for political and democratic education

Are you planning further events and projects or have you already carried them out?
If so, please send a short message to and we will be happy to include them in the overview.

Teaching and educational events at the HSZG
HSCG events in the region public & cooperative
Research and transfer projects
Publications and impulses for political and democratic education
  • Teaching and educational events at the HSZG
    Overview from March 2024
    22.04.2024
    Campus Zittau

    Environmental management
    Internal workshop on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and clothes swap

    Contact: Ulrike Bobek
    Further information
    23.03.2024/
    22.05.2024
    Campus Görlitz

    Faculty of Social Sciences
    Internal workshop: Democracy gambled away?!
    Play, listen & discuss

    Contact: Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukschat and Dr. Monique Ritter
    Further information
    13.-17.05.2024

    Vice President for Education and International Affairs/Education Office
    Equal Opportunities Week and Teaching Day 2024

    13.05.2024, Zittau Campus
    Public consultation by the Vice President on the topics of equal opportunities and intercultural communication
    Keynote speeches: Prof. Dr. Janina M. Vernal Schmidt as well as Dr. Stefanie Dreiack and Diana Hillebrand-Ludin (Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities Saxony)

    14.05.2024, Mensa Zittau
    "Chancen-Talk" over lunch on equal opportunities in studying and teaching
    With: Prof. Dr. Sophia Keil

    15.05.2024, Görlitz campus
    Teaching Day on the topic:
    Equal opportunities and diversity in studying and teaching - (not) an issue for the HSZG
    With: Prof. Dr. Sophia Keil, representatives of the StuRa, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weber (TUD),
    Dr. Monique Ritter and Sophie Ulbrich

    16.05.2024, Campus Görlitz
    Workshop: ChanGe Hochschule: Chancengerechtigkeit durch diversitätssensible Lehre?
    Led by: Janna Burr and Julia Lochner

    17.05.2024, online
    Workshop: Intercultural competence in university teaching - an introduction for lecturers
    With: Dr. Steffi Nothnagel, Diversity Consulting

    17.05.2024, online
    Exchange Digital Teaching HSZG - Topic: Promoting participation through digital tools in teaching
    With: Robert Viertel

    Contact: Daniel Winkler
    Further information
    Summer semester 2024
    Campus Görlitz

    TRAWOS
    Public lecture series in cooperation with the VHS Görlitz:
    Navigating in uncertain times - social crises and how to shape them

    16.05.2024
    Shaping fragile futures - are feminist perspectives or policies an answer?
    With: Dr. Julia Gabler, Prof. Sophia Keil (Vice President Education), Bernadette Rohlf (TRAWOS), Franziska Böhm (Feminist Forum), Markus Will (TRAWOS)

    30.05.2024
    Crises and age(ing)?!
    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoff

    13.06.2024
    Za moju domiznu!? Sorbian life in a balancing act
    Speaker: Dr. Theresa Jacobs, Sorbian Institute

    17.06.2024
    Crisis, crisis, crisis - fad, new reality or modus operandi?
    With: Julia Gabler, Julian Nejkow and Clemens Kießling in the live podcast: "As far as I know immediately!"

    Contact: Cornelia Müller
    To the lecture series
    12.06.2024
    Campus Görlitz

    TRAWOS
    Public workshop: Toxic masculinities - beginner's program for dropouts
    Speaker: Christoph May from the Detox Masculinity Institute

    Contact: Bernadette Rohlf
    Further information on the program
    Summer semester 2024

    Faculty of Social Sciences: Working Group "Democracy and Diversity"
    Principles of democratic (co)life at the Faculty of Social Sciencespublic

    About the principles

    21.10.2024
    Campus Görlitz

    Faculty of Social Sciences in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education
    Workshop: Theater play NSU Monologues and accompanying workshop

    Contact: Prof. Dr. Nadine Jukaschat
    Further information
    23.10.2024
    Campus Zittau

    Prorector Research/Staff Unit Research
    Public event: Opening of the Year of Science at the HSZG: "Those up there, us down there" - keynote, short impulses and panel discussion

    Contact: Kristin Sprechert
    Announcement
    Winter semester 2024/2025
    Campus Görlitz

    Faculty of Social Sciences
    New elective module in the Studium Fundamentale: Reflected work in voluntary work

    Contact: Prof. Dr. Maja Dshemuchadse
    Further information
  • HSZG events in the region public & cooperative
Ansprechperson
M.A.
Fränzi Straßberger
Fraenzi.Strassberger(at)hszg.de
Rectorate/research staff unit
02763 Zittau
Th.-Körner-Allee 16
Building Z I, Room 1.64
1st floor
+49 3583 612-4248
Rectorate/research staff unit
02826 Görlitz
Parkstrasse 2
Building G VII, Room 315
2nd upper floor
+49 3581 374-4248