On Saturday, over 2000 people came together to demonstrate for the importance and freedom of science, at the science march Frankfurt. One keynote speaker at the beginning of the march was Dr. Sascha Vogel. The managing director of the FIAS graduate school FIGSS spoke together with Peter Feldmann, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt; Birgitta Wolff, President of the Goethe-University; Frank Dievernich, President of the University for Applied Sciences and the president of Präsident Uni Gießen, Joybrato Mukherjee.