Off-University creates new strategies to uphold and sustain academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes. It was established for and by academics from Turkey yet addresses itself to academics all over the world: scholars who have been purged from their institutions, forced to resign, who are legally and politically persecuted and even imprisoned because of their opinion and research.
Located in Germany, Off-University offers researchers and students with limited opportunity to move around freely an occasion to participate in online education. It combines the good old ideal of academic freedom with state of the art digital communication and collaboration opportunities and seeks to develop emancipatory education-research activities that are less hierarchical and more democratic.
Off-University’s mission is based on its commitment to peace in the world and to living together in diversity. For more information on how to contribute to our initiative, please e-mail [email protected].