Empowering Minds
Beyond Borders

Off University is committed to global peace and a democratic academia

ABOUT US

A University Beyond Borders and Classrooms

As a self-organization of politically persecuted scholars, we seeks new strategies to uphold academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes.

What we do
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Courses

We offer accredited free and open online  courses with an intensive seminar atmosphere in a great variety of academic fields.

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Research

We contribute to knowledge at risk in the trans-disciplinary fields of Peace, Gender and Rethinking the University.

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Publications

We experiment with ways to write and publish collaboratively and open access.

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Recent News

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We are hiring a researcher!

We are hiring a researcher for a research project on Kurdish Female Asylum Seekers in Berlin who conducts 8 interviews …
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Long Night of Science – 2024

With freedom as the topic of the 2024 Science Year by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Off …
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Meet Our Project Leaders!

Join us in exploring the meaning of freedom! We are looking for participants for an upcoming video & radio project …
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As an independent charitable organization, we are 100% self-funded. Your donation fuels vital initiatives, enables us to support other scholars at risk, supports our secure e-learning platform, helps to innovative and inclusive pedagogy, and collaborative research.
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Urgently Wanted: Freedom of Research and Learning

With our research we wish to explore imaginations and expectations of “freedom” of New-Berliners, who have experienced political repression and discrimination. Through a collaborative process with artist-educators who have migration experiences, two cohorts of 15 participants will create a video and a radio play, documenting their definition and expectations on freedom. These artistic outputs will be widely shared to spark discussions on the value of free and accessible education.

The project is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

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Critical Peace Studies

The story of Off University began with signatures to a peace petition and the ensuing mass lay-off of scholars in Turkey. Our commitment to peace is our hope to contribute to peace-making with scholarly knowledge and to forge alliances between natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and the humanities to gain the necessary momentum to fight war. We have coordinated the research project Critical Peace Studies in Turkey since 2021.

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