You’ll never teach alone. At Freie Universität, teachers, students, and administrative staff see themselves as members of a teaching and learning community. In a participatory strategy process they discussed their ideas about the future of education and then formulated them in a mission statement. This work continues through a special week devoted to the topic every year as well as through other formats used to examine and further develop central aspects of the mission statement.

Sources and additional information

From 2020 to 2021 in a participatory strategy process, almost 300 students, employees, and members of the teaching staff worked out what teaching and learning at Freie Universität Berlin should look like in 2030. They then developed a mission statement, which was approved by the Academic Senate on July 14, 2021.

Every spring the Dahlem Center for Academic Teaching organizes week devoted to the topic of teaching where members of the university can exchange ideas on how to make teaching and learning successful.

• Mission Statement for Teaching and Education
• Teaching and Education Week 2023
• Website of the Dahlem Center for Academic Teaching