Education & Science

China’s heavy-duty gas turbine industry offers a more complex story than the familiar narrative of “forced technology transfer” — one shaped by commercial bargaining, market access and negotiated interests. As the EU and China navigate growing competition.

Georgian politics were rocked by sustained protests led by Gen Z from 2023 and 2024. Diaries kept by young people reveal the complex emotional arc many experienced as the protests unfolded, moulded by fear, anger, pride, and hope but also by disappointment and confusion. A shared sense of identity and history served to consolidate protesters’ voices and visions, with values associated with the European Union, including democracy and human rights, providing a frame of reference for protesters’ demands. 

The G20 Summit and COP30 converged at a time of exceptional strain on the multilateral system. As geopolitical divides widened, coalitions of the willing nonetheless succeeded in keeping especially debt sustainability on the international agenda.

Domestic violence and hegemonic masuclinity are deeply entwined in China – they reinforce and stabilize each other, to the detriment of women. Our author pleads for an alternative thinking about masculinity in general – drawn from pre-modern concepts and Bruce Lee.

The ‘My Voice, My Weapon’ music video promotes freedom of expression by raising young people's awareness for the role that they have to play in bringing about positive change and sustainable development. It is composed by the African Creative Action Network (ACAN) in partnership with Africans Rising.

When schools shut down, many students around the world were shut out, as their education systems were ill-prepared for online learning. The OECD’s 2018 PISA report revealed wide disparities between countries and socio-economic groups on the availability of adequate technology and schools’ capacity to use digital tools to enhance learning.

The Covid-19-related switch to online learning in German schools could exacerbate existing educational inequalities, due to wide variations in access and digital literacy at home.

Is data protection an obstacle to innovation? And is its easing in favor of digital educational opportunities inevitable? On the contrary!  

German schools have been slower to embrace digital education than US schools over the past decade, due to concerns about the influence of commercial players and data protection. The Covid-19 pandemic has now significantly increased reform pressure in Germany.