The Akademisches Netzwerk Osteuropa (AKNO) is a German association that provides counseling and emergency aid for academics affected by the war in Ukraine and political repressions in Belarus and Russia. We have co-organized four online seminars in the winter term 2022.
The Alice-Salomon Hochschule is a university in Berlin. They offered us their event space to hold the opening of Off University in 2017.
University of Bremen is a public university in the city of Bremen. It has hosted seven of our online seminars.
We have collaborated with the Centre of Comparative Research on Democracy at Humboldt University for a variety of co-organized online seminars and as part of the Academic Freedom Network.
CircleU is an alliance of nine research-intensive universities from across Europe. We applied to the Call “CIRCLE U.-COIL – Innovating European Teaching through Collaborative Online International Learning” together with HU Berlin and UC Louvain and were granted a fund to accompany the digital security of one of our online courses and to organize a workshop for the members of the CircleU on “Collaborative Online Learning: Best Practices Workshop”.
The Elisabeth-Selbert-Initiative (ESI) brings host institutions and threatened human rights defenders together for a temporary relocation. We have hosted two fellow at Off University for six months each.
This public university in the city of Frankfurt/Oder has hosted our Turkish-language online seminar “Gender Studies in Turkey”
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research announced the Year of Science “Freedom” in 2024. In our contribution Urgently Wanted: Freedom of Research and Learning, we did an artistic investigation on the expectation of New Berliners regarding their expectations of academic freedom, vocational training and higher education.
Freie Universitat Berlin is one of the public universities in Berlin. Six of our seminars was hosted by the university. We were part of the Academic Freedom Network in 2020.
We have organized already 15 online seminars with Humboldt-Universität in various departments. Off University is a partner in the Berlin University Alliance funded exploration project RePLITO – Global Repertoires of Living Together. We were part of the Academic Freedom Network in 2020.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Philipp Schwartz Initiative supports researchers at risk with fellowships at German universities. In collaboration with the initiative, we have organized co-taught online courses between PSI fellows and remote colleagues.
With the International Centre for Development and Decent Work, we have organized three online courses on Political Economy and one on the role of the University of the future.
The Mosaik Support Centre on Lesvos has collaborated with us to organize an online seminar and a workshop on “Storytelling as Resistance” together with refugee students.
The Institute for the Near and Middle East, the Institute for Sociology and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich have hosted 11 online courses.
The Martin Roth-Initiative, a joint initiative of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) and the Goethe-Institut, aims to protect artists and cultural actors by offering temporary relocation stays and enabling them to continue their work. We currently host our fifth fellow at Off University.
The Memory Studies Association (MSA) is a professional association of scholars and practitioners in museums, memorial institutions, archives, the arts, and other fields engaged in remembrance of the past. The MSA Scholars at Risk Fellowship arranges academic placements in host institutions worldwide and provides financial support for memory scholars whose lives and careers are at risk.
The Mosaik Support Centre on Lesvos has collaborated with us to organize an online seminar and a workshop on “Storytelling as Resistance” together with refugee students.
The New University in Exile Consortium is a global network of currently 66 colleges and universities hosting exiled scholars. Together we have organized 15 online seminars co-led by a exiled Consortium scholar and a colleague stranded in their country.
With the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück, we have organized a lecture series in 2018 and two online seminars.
The University of Potsdam has been the first to accredited an online seminar with Off in 2018. Ever since we have organized eight online seminars with a variety of institutes and departments.
The Centre for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg has hosted four of our online seminars.
“Beyond Social Cohesion: Global Repertoires of Living Together” (RePLITO) is an exploration project part of the Berlin University Alliance. In collaboration, we create a dynamic and easily accessible Digital Knowledge Archive that gathers and conceptualizes global repertoires of living together at replito.de
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is a political party foundation affiliated with the German party “Die Linke”. It was the initial support by the foundation in 2017 that helped us to establish Off University. We have since organized dozens of courses and more recently in the field of peace-building processes in Turkey.
With the Habitat Unit at Technische Universität Berlin, we were able to offer two online seminars in Urban Studies.
We have collaborated with the University of New Europe in the organization of the online lecture series “Rethinking War, the Military and Gender Through the Russian War on Ukraine” in 2022.
VAHA is an initiative of Anadolu Kültür and zusa, funded by Stiftung Mercator and the European Cultural Foundation. With their support we have collaborated with Mesopotamia Foundation, the Middle East Cinema Academy Association, and Amed City Theatre, on the project “The Journey of Kurdish Women to Berlin”.
