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Excited to be among the best 🇩🇪 universities for political science, according to the independent CHE Ranking! ⭐⭐⭐
Our teaching and research got top results for students finishing within the standard period of study & third-party funding for research.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved faculty member and past President, Henrik Enderlein.
We mourn alongside his family and offer our deepest sympathies. Our community has lost a dear friend and he will be greatly missed.
We are proud to share exciting news 🎉:
In Spring 2022, Prof.
@Cornelia_Woll
will join the Hertie School and take over the position as new President of our university. Welcome to the team, Cornelia!
#hertielove
🔔 Happening today
Join
@MungiuPippidi
, Brazil's former Minister of Justice
@SF_Moro
, and Hungary's former Minister of Education
@BalintMAGYAR
for the talk "Hungary and Brazil: Populism and the Rule of Law".
🗓️Today, 25 May, 6:00 pm CEST
🖱️ Join online:
Professor of Ethics and Technology
@j2bryson
shares her thoughts on ChatGPT and the social and regulatory implications of the generative AI technology in
@EURACTIV
's Tech Brief podcast with
@BertuzLuca
.
🎧Have a listen:
Henrik Enderlein, former President of the Hertie School, passed away two years ago today at the age of 46. We remember Henrik as a visionary leader, professor, teacher and mentor. Our thoughts are with his family and friends today.
Wir trauern mit euch um Henrik Enderlein. Wir verlieren unseren ehemaligen Präsidenten und einen ganz wundervollen Menschen. Einen Beitrag von
@mhallerberg
and
@andrearoemmele
.
.
@henrikenderlein
becomes new President of the Hertie School of Governance: Hertie Foundation commits an additional 17.5 million euros to further expand the
#university
. Read more about our change in leadership.
Great news:
@ProfCCostello
, our new Professor of Fundamental Rights and co-director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights, officially joined the Hertie School. A big welcome to her and we're looking forward to her work in research, teaching and outreach!
We are thrilled to announce two new faculty members who will join our community this August!
@LynnHKaack
will join as Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy and
@ariannaornaghi
as Assistant Professor of Economics.
#hertielove
Today we commemorate former President Henrik Enderlein, who passed away 1 year ago. We remember Henrik as our friend, beloved professor & visionary president whose impact and legacy live on. Our thoughts are with his family and friends today.
#hertielove
.
@HertieCFR
Co-director
@calibasak
co-edited a new
@OxUniPress
book on secondary rules in international law – a resource for both law students & practitioners facing the wide-ranging yet fragmented nature of international courts and tribunals. ⚖️Read more:
Happy Birthday Hertie School!
#20YearsHertieSchool
🎉
Looking back to move forward - this is our motto for the next year, during which we will celebrate our 20th anniversary.
What do we have in store? Nine months of festive events, culminating in a High Level Forum in May 2024.
Congratulation to our Professor of International and Cyber Security
@ARGohdes
on the Goldsmith Book Prize!
The prestigous prize was awarded by the
@Kennedy_School
at
@Harvard
University for her latest book Repression in the Digital Age.
@Hertie_Security
Since the passing of our past President Henrik Enderlein on 28 May 2021, individuals from across Europe have commemorated his life in written tributes.
You can read a small selection of them here.
Thrilled to announce that our Centre
@Hertie_Security
has received a generous endowment by the Stanton Foundation. The endowment will contribute to building the Centre as a European hub for research, teaching and policy advice on nuclear security.
Say hi 👋 to 2 new Assistant Professors who just joined our faculty!
🔍
@Shubha186
researches 🌏 relations from a substate conflict & diaspora perspective
🔍
@EgonTripodi
works on behavioural economics and questions of public & political economy
More than 16 courses are on offer at this year's inaugural Data Science Summer School!
All levels are welcome and encouraged to participate, courses are presented by our very own
@Hertie_DSLab
with the support of
@scriptsberlin
and
@stifterverband
.
We are proud to announce two new faces at
@Hertie_DSLab
:
🔬 Asya Magazinnik, Professor of Social Data Science, and
🔬
@DrewDim
|mery, Professor of Data Science for the Common Good,
will join us in the upcoming academic year.
We are excited to announce that our Professor of Sociology
@MKreyenfeld
has been appointed Co-Director of the Einstein Research Center Population Diversity. The new research centre will focus on families in times of demographic and social change.
MPP alum and PhD researcher
@DeoSahil
, who is based in Pune, India, has been working with
@ppcr_pune
to obtain and distribute oxygen in local hospitals. We invite members of our community to support Sahil with this worthy cause. Read more and donate 👇
Our researchers
@chtraxler
@kaiwegrich1
asked 1500 Berliners what they think about urban mobility policies 🚲 🚘 🚦
Turns out: The majority are in favour of expanding cycle paths and low-traffic neighbourhoods!
A 🧵 about cycle paths, 'Kiezblocks', speed limits and more
We will celebrate the political contributions and legacy of former Hertie School president Henrik Enderlein this Wed, 23 June at 6:00 pm CEST, in cooperation with our partners in Paris.
We hope you will be able to join us online.
Great news:
@j2bryson
has arrived at the Hertie School. We are excited she has joined us as Professor of Ethics and Technology and are looking forward to learning more about her work on AI governance.
Let's get to know
@kayserma
, our new Dean of Faculty and Research and teacher of the school's much-loved Statistics I course. Read about Prof. Kayser, his teaching and research, and his pandemic dog:
Congratulations to Julian Wucherpfenning and co-author Sara Polo, recipients of
@APSAtweets
"Best Paper Award". Read about their paper, which challenges the claim that hosting refugees heightens the risk of
#terrorism
.
Congratulations to European Parliament Member
@d_boeselager
(MPP Class of 2018), recipient of the 2020 Alumni Achievement Award! 👏👏👏👏
The award ceremony is part of our Digital Alumni Reunion on Friday.
#HertieAlumniNovember
Watch a video of Başak Çalı (
@calibasak
) deliver oral pleadings as the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights hears a case on the arrest and pre-trial detention of Turkish politician Selahattin Demirtaş.
#Demirta
ş
#humanrights
The Hertie School condemns the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces. We are deeply concerned for the people of
#Ukraine
and the implications of the war for the international order. Our thoughts are with our students, colleagues and families from the region.
Professor of Public Policy
@AnkeHassel
has been appointed Co-Director of
@DelorsBerlin
🇪🇺👏
Learn more about her trajectory at the school, her research on European social & economic policy and her more recent work on differences between welfare states.
“The Hertie School stands for open societies, not closed ones. What we need is not a world of closed borders and economic nationalism, but a successful approach to governance beyond the nation-state.” -
@henrikenderlein
, Opening of the Academic Year
📣 Job alert 📣
Interested in joining the Hertie School right in the heart of Berlin?
The
@HertieCFR
is looking for a new (Assistant) Professor of Fundamental Rights to carry forward the centre's outreach and teaching agenda.
⏰ Apply by 9 April
Read new research by
@calibasak
and Alexandre Skander Galand (
@galand_s
) examining whether the institutional plurality of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies hinders the overall coherence of global
#humanrights
protection outcomes.
#HertieFundamentalRights
At 6:00 pm CEST we will celebrate the political contributions and legacy of former Hertie School president Henrik Enderlein.
You can join the commemoration, which will take place in Berlin and Paris, via livestream:
Hertie School MPP graduate and PhD researcher
@DeoSahil
has been at the forefront of India's
#COVID19
response. From the early days of the pandemic, he has been using his data training to advise Indian government agencies. Read more:
#hertielove
📣 Applications for our Doctoral Programme in Governance are now open!
The Hertie School is offering 8 PhD scholarships to outstanding master's students interested in pursuing a PhD in its Doctoral Programme in Governance as of 1 August 2022. 📚 🤓
"The EU is the most successful bridge that has ever been built between the nation state and the global order. But the EU needs to become better in delivering multilateral problem solving - if we aren‘t successful, who will be?“
@henrikenderlein
at the
#GlobalSolutions
Summit.
Welcome to Hertie,
@DrewDim
! 🤝 The
@Hertie_DSLab
Professor of Data Science for the Common Good begins teaching today.
"Algorithms, code and machine learning are an increasingly large part of how our world works. I'm excited to empower students to understand these topics!"
Renovation work at the Robert Koch Forum is in full swing! Here are some impressions from the construction site. 🏗️ 👷 We are very excited about the progress and look forward to move into our new home for research and teaching in 2025!
#HertieNewHome
Great news:
@j2bryson
joined the new global initiative GPAI, which brings together leading experts from around the world to bridge the gap between theory and practice on Artificial Intelligence.
#AI
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas turned 90 this week - revisit the historic speech he gave at the Hertie School in 2017, addressing the question, “Which future for Europe?"
Congratulations to
@alelealv
, this year's Alumni Achievement Award winner🎉
Vallejo is being recognised for her outstanding advocacy work leading to more road safety and sustainable mobility for cyclists🚴and pedestrians🚸 in Mexico🇲🇽.
Read more ⤵️
Prime Minister
#Rutte
@MinPres
@markrutte
has arrived at
@thehertieschool
!
“As longest serving Prime Minister in Dutch history, it seems a very appropriate point in time to reflect upon and discuss Europe as an actor in these uncertain times,” welcomes
@Cornelia_Woll
.
A very warm welcome to
@LindnerJS
, the new Co-Director of
@DelorsBerlin
🎉 joining us from
@ecb
. As the first Henrik Enderlein Fellow funded by
@MercatorDE
Lindner will also teach on 🇪🇺 economic and financial policy. Very happy to have you with us! ➡️
We are excited to announce that Ruth Ditlmann has joined our school as Prof. of Social Psychology! Prof. Ditlmann is a recipient of a Lichtenberg Professorship funded by
@VolkswagenSt
. Learn more about Prof. Ditlmann's research and this prestigious award:
How to fight COVID-19 with data science?
MPP grad and PhD researcher
@DeoSahil
happened to be in India when the pandemic hit.
He jumped into action and used his data analysis skills to help India's government understand the pandemic.
#hertielove
First day of class! Our teams have been hard at work crafting our
#hybridteaching
approach. Here is Prof.
@kayserma
's statistics class. Half the students are present, half are online.
Good luck to all our students!
#hertielove
(Thanks for the pic,
@ZornAnnika
)
In 2022 the Hertie School will move to the historic Robert Koch Forum in the heart of Berlin. Looking very much forward to the official press walk-through on 1 Feb with the Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller (
@RegBerlin
) and our president
@HenrikEnderlein
:
.
@JeffKwasiKlein
(MPP 2017, project lead
@EOTOBerlin
) is our Alumni Achievement Award winner! 🎓🏆🥳 We honour Jeff for his outstanding leadership fighting racism & discrimination. Don't miss his fireside chat with
@Cornelia_Woll
at the Alumni Reunion! 👉
The Hertie School is recruiting a Professor or Assistant Professor of
#Economics
(f/m/div). The position is open to any policy-relevant field, with a weak preference for someone with a
#DevelopmentEconomics
or
#InternationalEconomics
focus. More details:
Bienvenue à Berlin,
@sciencespo
! 🇩🇪 🇫🇷
This semester, students from both our universities have been studying together as part of the
@CIVICA_EU
joint hybrid course 'Welfare States in Transition', taught by
@BPalier
and
@AnkeHassel
- and last week they all finally got to meet!
Meet Johannes Lindner
@LindnerJS
, the new co-director of
@DelorsBerlin
🇪🇺 and the first Henrik Enderlein Fellow at the Hertie School!
Lindner joined the Hertie School in October after 20 years at
@ecb
. In this video, he shares what he most looks forward to at the Hertie School👇
Congratulations to the Hertie School
#Classof2021
, and welcome to the alumni community! 🎓🎉 We couldn't be more proud of your efforts and success in challenging times!
#hertielove
🙌👏
Welcome Mr. President 🇫🇮
Excited to host Finnish President
@alexstubb
for a discussion on Finland‘s security police today.
Following a greeting by Hertie School President
@Cornelia_Woll
, Stubb presents his keynote to students, journalists and ambassadors.
On
#WorldPressFreedomDay
📰, we are thinking of Prof.
@ARGohdes
' research from earlier this year. It showed that journalists are likelier to be targeted and even killed by state authorities in democratic states than non-democratic-states. Read more:
Congrats to Prof. Gerhard Hammerschmid! 👏
@apoliticalco
listed him as one of 100 most influential academics in government.
His research focuses on public management reforms and the digitalisation of government.
This week, students of
@HertieLatinclub
& the Diplomacy Club brought diplomats from Argentina 🇦🇷,
@EmbaMexAle
🇲🇽 and Peru 🇵🇪 &
@embachileberlin
🇨🇱 to the Hertie School for a talk on bilateral relations with 🇩🇪 from the Latin American perspective, moderated by
@GIGA_Institute
👏
That's a wrap! Over the weekend, our students from
@HertieLatinclub
hosted LATAM 2023.
The conference discussed 🇩🇪-Latin American relations and the most pressing issues for the southern continent - with inputs from the 🇵🇪🇧🇷🇨🇱 embassies and many more distinguished guests.
.
@AnkeHassel
has been with us since the school's earliest days in 2005. From EU labour policy to digitalisation, she has covered many facets of work and welfare. Her latest book draws an arc between capitalist economies, growth and welfare policies.
Congratulations,
@AnkeHassel
!
The Professor of Public Policy and former Co-Director of
@DelorsBerlin
has been selected as one of ten experts to advise DG Grow
@EU_Growth
– the
@EU_Commission
Directorate-General on industrial, trade and innovation policy.
We're thrilled to announce that Professor
@mephenke
has won a second award for her book "Constructing Allied Cooperation"! The Lepgold Book Prize is awarded by
@Georgetown
.
Read more:
The Robert Koch Forum has been 'sleeping' for over 26 years - and in 2025 it will be time for its hallways to be filled with the hustle and bustle of Hertie School students learning and researching🎓
So excited to move into our new home in the heart of political Berlin! 🎉