In view of the increasing social polarization in Germany and Europe, the scholarship organizations see it as one of their central tasks to counteract this development with their current and former scholarship holders and their international networks and to work together to promote respectful coexistence based on a common set of values PDF-File 94,23 kB .
In their work, the employees of the Stipendienkultur Ruhr project and Fachhochschule Dortmund also work together to promote respectful coexistence, against nationalist thought patterns, populist simplifications, hostility towards science, relativization of the crimes of National Socialism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism and any other type of discrimination based on religion or ideology, ethnic origin, gender, disability, age or sexual identity.