Schader-Festival 2026

For 2025, a festival featuring musical, artistic and humanities-based dialogue elements is planned for the Schader Campus for the first time.

The new format will enable the WDC 2026 theme to be experienced holistically in a different way, opening up new perspectives in an unusual setting and offering space for experimentation. A joint edition in 2026 is being planned as a WDC cooperation. This will also open up the possibility of incorporating WDC projects specifically from Darmstadt.

Since 1988, the Schader Foundation has been promoting dialogue between the social sciences and practice. Through its own projects, it creates spaces in which science, politics, business and civil society can work together to find answers to current challenges.