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We are happy to welcome the participants of our Winter Academy "Inequality and Education"![caption id="attachment_617" align="alignright" width="150"] Participants Winter Academy[/caption]The varied program started yesterday, 17 November 2014, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After an introduction by Marianne Braig, Melanie Hanif, Andreas Gestrich and Indra Sengupta, the young scholars participated in workshop sessions and discussed in groups several project presentations.The Winter Academy's format is distinguished primarily by the participants’ active involvement in the conceptualization and realization of the academic program. The program centers on a deepened scholarly exchange that is embedded in a transregional perspective. The presentations of individual research projects in small groups and working group sessions are open only for the participants but the lectures and panel discussions are open to a wider public.