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For 25 years, Wissenschaft weltoffen has provided a valid basis for monitoring the internationalisation of studies and research in Germany and around the world. Every year, it sheds light on developments relating to international students and researchers in Germany, the mobility patterns of students and researchers from Germany abroad as well as academic mobility patterns worldwide. As of 2024, it also analyses structural aspects of internationalisation, such as university administrative staff, the availability of English-language study programmes, international university partnerships and third-party funding, plus transnational educational programmes.

Ten years after many refugees immigrated to Germany in 2015, some have made their way into higher education. This was achieved with the help of support programmes from the federal and state governments. Two important factors for academic success are social and academic integration at the university. Refugees with foreign and domestic university entrance qualifications are at a significant disadvantage in this respect compared to other student groups.

A brief commentary on the situation of university funding at the beginning of 2026

Records are often approached positivistically, read as evidence of the information they contain; this applies both in an everyday context and in a scientific approach to records as data material. This qualitative interview study contributes to the epistemological reflection of records. Against the background of the analytical approach to records as artefacts, these are understood in terms of how they came into being. Using the example of records of appointment procedures for professorships at German universities, the study examines the question of which functions the records fulfil and how they are produced based on seminarrative expert interviews.