
Higher Education Policy
Since 2001, when the first symposium tackled the theme of “How to design top universities?”, the Schleyer Foundation’s University Symposia have become a recognised forum for the future development of tertiary education. The symposia address current issues of higher education policy and provide input and stimulus for public debate. These encounters between young researchers, learned academics and experienced practitioners from many different disciplines, from university management, from business, politics and the media, never fail to promote a climate of discussion brimming with new ideas.

February 2-3, 2022 Hamburg | XVI. Higher Education Symposium
Total Transfer?
Thoughts on how to manage new Expectations in Science, Society and Politics

February 17-18, 2021 Berlin | XV. Higher Education Symposium
Shaping digitalisation:
The Responsibilities of Science –
Ideas to drive our Economy and our Society


September 18-19, 2019 Cologne | XIV. Higher Education Symposium
The Future of University Teaching


February 20-21, 2019 Berlin | XIII. Higher Education Symposium
Medical Education under the Microscope


March 16, 2017 Berlin | XII. Higher Education Symposium
Science as a Profession and Vocation –
New Careers in the Sciences in Germany


February 17-18, 2021 Berlin | XV. Higher Education Symposium
The Responsibilities of Science –
Ideas to drive our Economy and our Society






New Careers in the Sciences in Germany
