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Inequality and Equity

Our first Special Focus Day of the year looked at inequality in its various forms. Students and staff put together a diverse program to tackle the issue and identify the roles of each one of us. From education in Latin …

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Developing a student-centered program

Together with colleagues, our English teacher Ksenia Filatov from Australia has created a professional development committee – aimed at developing a student-centered program. In our annual report, she has described the process and some of the outcomes.  At the end …

Sustainability Focus Day

On December 10th, we hosted the second Special Focus Day of the school year here at the College focusing on sustainability. After 23 different hands-on morning workshops and a plenary session including video messages from UWC alumni who graduated 32 …

Wild Bee Scientists: Our insect house project

Together with scientists from the University of Freiburg’s Department for Landscape Ecology, a group of UWC Robert Bosch College students are conducting research into insect biodiversity in Germany. The project, supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung initiative “Our Common Future”, …

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Promoting student co-agency in international policy-making

Second-year student Celina Faerch from Denmark has been appointed a member of the student advisory board for the OECD Education 2030 project. OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) is an intergovernmental organization with 36 member countries. According to OECD’s …

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Theater Performance: “Raising awareness for how we perceive cancer”

Our two students Vlada and Eirini, both second-years at the College, have recently performed in the dance theater project “Die Krone an meiner Wand (The crown on my wall)” at Theater Freiburg, directed by Gary Joplin and Monica Gillette. Together …

Stolpersteine Service Project

“The Stolpersteine service has already taught me that people in Freiburg really value the project, and the commemoration that it represents. Numerous times during service, we have been stopped while cleaning by people telling us how grateful they are for …

Reflection on Project Week

Project Weeks take place twice throughout the semester, in the fall and in the spring. Having just experienced his first Project Week since starting the UWC program, our first-year student journalist Lorenzo del Prete has shared some reflections about the …

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Diversity in the classroom

At the heart of our approach to educating students for peace and sustainability is the idea of deliberate diversity: by selecting students from a variety of different backgrounds and by creating a microcosm, a world in miniature, we provide a …

My Digital Revolution 3: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence

Can humanity be a match to independently thinking supercomputers? The examination of artificial intelligence is becoming a key issue in today’s society, and at the same time an increasingly irritating topic. Some are enthusiastic about the rapid pace of innovation …

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