Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier (l.), Rector of the TU Chemnitz, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Garsztecki, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, jointly initiated the establishment of the junior professorship. Photo: TU Chemnitz/Jacob Müller

The Chemnitz University of Technology will flank the application of the city of Chemnitz for the title “European Capital of Culture 2025” with a very special contribution: “The Institute of European Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy will establish the junior professorship European Culture and Civil Society on October 1, 2018, and thus make a strong and extraordinary contribution to the application for the Capital of Culture,” says Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier, Rector of Chemnitz University of Technology. “We expect the new junior professorship to provide important creative impulses for the Capital of Culture application”. In this way, she herself could become a cultural ambassador for the city.

“In the future, the junior professorship is to deal, among other things, with the cultural aspects of a citizens’ Europe, with new social movements, with the development of civil society in Europe and with new forms of protest and socialisation in the European context,” says Prof. Dr. Stefan Garsztecki, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy.

The junior professorship will also be integrated into the Bachelor’s programmes of the “European Studies” and the Master’s programme “European Integration – Focus on East Central Europe”. Interested parties can apply for the position until 5 March 2018.

Additional information:

Further information on the junior professorship is available from Prof. Dr. Stefan Garsztecki, Chair of Cultural and Country Studies of Eastern Central Europe, by e-mail or on the Internet at www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/europastudien/eskultur/