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The chapter starts with a description of the current state of research on the recognition of prior learning and credit transfer at German universities. The subsequent discussion of the concrete practice of recognition and crediting draws on empirical findings obtained in scientific studies accompanying large-scale funding programmes. In this context, the "ANKOM" initiative funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the federal-state competition "Advancement through Education: Open Universities" are of central importance.

Recently, an increasing number of students from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds (SRABs) entering universities in settlement countries such as Australia and Germany have necessitated the establishment of a variety of supports. However, to date, little attention has been paid to the organisational conditions surrounding such supports. This study thus examined these conditions through the conceptual lens of organisational memory loss. Based on the two illustrative cases of Australia and Germany, it was described how building durable and responsive supports for SRABs is undermined by structural, ideological, and temporal imperatives that erode the possibilities for a sharable organisational memory.

In the area of public sector self-management, there is no call for tenders, and public procurement law does not apply. This „principle of the freedom from tender for self-management“ appears directly accessible at first glance. However, the principle is difficult to apply in legal practice. How far it exempts entities within the public sector from competitive tendering is the subject of constant dispute. This is made more difficult by the fact that the principle has not yet had a solid foundation in primary and constitutional law that could guide the discussion about its scope. The article explores the origin of the principle and substantiates it in terms of primary and constitutional law.