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„Individuelle Lernprozesse begleiten – wie geht das?“ Diese Frage wurde mit der Methodologie Design Thinking an der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) in einem zweijährigen Lehrentwicklungsprojekt bearbeitet. Verortet im Bachelor Soziale Arbeit der Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW, wurde das Projekt in Kooperation mit Akteur:innen des BA Data Science der Hochschule für Technik FHNW und BA Prozessgestaltung der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW umgesetzt. Das ko-kreative Projektdesign erschloss und bündelte die vorhandene Erfahrung und Expertise von Studierenden und Lehrenden im Kontext der Begleitung individueller Lernprozesse und führte diese konzeptionell zusammen. Anschlussfähige Vorschläge für die Implementierung der Erkenntnisse in Bildungsformaten der Fachhochschule sind entstanden.

Germany, like any other State Party to the Rome Statute, would be obliged under international law, and would be capable under German law, to arrest any person against whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant, be it President Putin or, in future, perhaps one of the Hamas leaders, Defence Minister Gallant or Prime Minister Netanyahu. The opposing view not only misrepresents the current state of international law, but it also contradicts the Nuremberg legacy, which must be upheld particularly by Germany.

This paper deals with the “Table of the Categories of Freedom” in the second main chapter of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason. It provides an account of the role these categories are supposed to play and also of their conceptual content. The key to a proper understanding lies in the realisation that they are derived from the so­called table of judgements in the Critique of Pure Reason and the functions of thinking, which it compiles by means of a metaphysical deduction. I therefore interpret the categories of freedom consistently from the table of judgements and reconstruct their conceptual content from the functions of thinking underlying each category. Furthermore, Kant justifies by means of a transcendental deduction the fact that the categories of freedom necessarily relate to all objects of the will. I argue that the categories are concepts constitutive for the object of the will: the role they play is that of the functions of willing an object. Finally, I show that the categories of freedom reach beyond Kant’s foundation of moral philosophy. They point to the later Metaphysics of Morals in that Kant associates an ambitious system­building claim with them. The idea is therefore that the table of the categories organises the system of moral philosophy.

En aquest article analitzem la política lingüística en dos països que compten amb diverses llengües oficials, Suïssa i Sud-àfrica, i en els quals el paper de la llengua anglesa ha evolucionat respecte a les llengües "nacionals" locals des de la dècada de 1990. Ens centrem en la política lingüística com a manifestació de les lluites socials i, fent especial èmfasi en l’anglès, estudiem els documents polítics actuals en aquests dos contextos tan diferents. L’ús de la “neutralitat” com a lent analítica ens permet demostrar que la política lingüística va més enllà dels plans d’estudi i de la inclusió o exclusió de les llengües i, al seu lloc, neutralitza les idees socials que estan en consonància amb la concepció d’un futur “d’èxit” en una conjuntura sociohistòrica determinada. Per acabar, reflexionem sobre la neutralitat com a component de les ideologies lingüístiques, en virtut de les quals s’autoritzen llengües específiques per a objectius polítics contingents i canviants, cosa que té conseqüències com ara la inclusió en la política educativa o l’exclusió de la política educativa de determinades llengües i la distribució desigual del coneixement, els recursos i l’autoritat.

One of the novel features of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is a private law liability for damages caused upstream in the supply chain. However, liability under substantive law is worthless without procedural rules that allow for its enforcement. Within the context of supply chain liability there are at least two major procedural problems. First, victims affected by supply chain mishandlings might be unable to afford proceedings in Europe. Second, proving that a company has not exercised a sufficient level of diligence can be difficult. Art. 29 para. 3 CSDDD seeks to address those issues.

Auch in Deutschland nehmen Studierendenproteste gegen den Gaza-Krieg zu. Wie in den Vereinigten Staaten errichten Studierende dabei häufig Protestcamps, um auf ihr Anliegen aufmerksam zu machen. In einigen Städten wurden entsprechende Protestcamps rasch geräumt, in anderen Städten reagierten die Behörden dagegen zunächst mit Auflagen. Während Proteste, die den Hochschulbetrieb schwerwiegend stören, beschränkt und notfalls auch verboten bzw. aufgelöst werden dürfen, sind Proteste unterhalb dieser Schwelle in den meisten Fällen grundsätzlich vom Versammlungsrecht gedeckt. Ob dabei aber Protestcamps eingerichtet werden dürfen, ist eine Einzelfallfrage. Hingegen sind die Hochschulen in der Regel nicht befugt, eigenmächtig gegen als Versammlung zu qualifizierende Protestformen vorzugehen.

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This paper was initiated by a multidisciplinary Topic Workshop in the frame of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Priority Program 1158 “Antarctic Research with Comparative Investigations in Arctic Ice Areas”, and hence it represents only the national view without claiming to be complete but is intended to provide awareness and suggestions for the current discussion on so-called big data in many scientific fields. The importance of the polar regions and their essential role for the Earth system are both undoubtedly recognized. However, dramatic changes in the climate and environment have been observed first in the Arctic and later in Antarctica over the past few decades. While important data have been collected and observation networks have been built in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, this is a relatively data-scarce region due to the challenges of remote data acquisition, expensive labor, and harsh environmental conditions. There are many approaches crossing multiple scientific disciplines to better understand Antarctic processes; to evaluate ongoing climatic and environmental changes and their manifold ecological, physical, chemical, and geological consequences; and to make (improved) predictions. Together, these approaches generate very large, multivariate data sets, which can be broadly classified as “Antarctic big data”. For these large data sets, there is a pressing need for improved data acquisition, curation, integration, service, and application to support fundamental scientific research. Based on deficiencies in crossing disciplines and to attract further interest in big data in Antarctic sciences, this article will (i) describe and evaluate the current status of big data in various Antarctic-related scientific disciplines, (ii) identify current gaps, (iii) and provide solutions to fill these gaps.