The significant features that make Wuppertal a city of educational facilities are the University of Wuppertal, the Wuppertal campus of the “Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln”

Nearly every day there are human tragedies happening at Europe‘s outer borders. For the most part, there is no reporting on it since not all of the incidents are so extraordinary that they would find their way into media. But Ceuta, Melilla and especially Lampedusa have become symbols of the desperate escape from despair in crisis-torn areas of the world. After the globally cheered case of the Berlin Wall there has been built a new one: Between the rich and the poor. It is guarded more and more effectively.

One of the most renowned awards of our time was given to the European Union (EU) in December 2012: the Novel Price for Peace. In the explanations is explicitly referred to the peaceful development in Europe since the end of the Second World War and also it is emphasized the crucial contribution of the EU with regard to integration and democratization. The award at the same time shows that Europe and the EU have to be understood not as static but as progressing: Both Europe and the EU are on their ways. The award has therefore also to be seen as a mission.