Overview
- Organizers and the university reached a compromise that allowed the 'Take back the future' congress to open on Friday after contested sessions were moved off campus and some titles were changed.
- Berlin's science administration confirmed the AfD requested the TU cancel the congress, and the university initially told organisers to remove 14 events or the conference could not take place.
- Under the deal the SDS says four programme items will now run outside TU buildings and several other sessions had their titles altered, including a rewording of Andreas Kemper's talk about Björn Höcke.
- Organisers reported roughly 1,500–1,700 people registered for the three‑day event, which the TU defended as an effort to keep overt party campaigning off campus while critics called the move a danger to scholarly inquiry.
- Legal and education experts warn this episode could set a precedent by encouraging parties or allied lawyers to invoke state 'neutrality' rules to challenge critical teaching and research, a dispute tied to long‑running debates over the Beutelsbacher Konsens and election‑period rules.