University against right-wing Extremism

In response to racist, queer-hostile and right-wing propaganda incidents at the University of Potsdam, the University Senate founded the working group against right-wing extremism in 2023. Democracy must be defended, sustained and requires commitment – including that of the University of Potsdam, its staff and students.

The aim of the working group is to help create attractive conditions for study, research, teaching and campus life at the University of Potsdam that ensure equal, liberal, pluralistic and solidary coexistence. This is done in accordance with the university's anti-discrimination guidelines for creating an appreciative and non-violent working and study environment in which the rights, freedoms and dignity of fellow human beings are respected.

With its projects, the working group supports the University of Potsdam in resolutely defending these principles against practices and attitudes of the extreme right. These include right-wing, anti-democratic, anti-pluralist, historically revisionist, anti-scientific, populist and authoritarian attitudes and actions that proclaim inequality between people and support corresponding power relations (e.g. racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-feminism, hetero- and (cis-)sexism, ableism or classism).