Michael Fischer is the founder and chairman of the world lecture project - (wlp)°, a video library for academic videos.  He is also the project coordinator of ViVET, a video library for vocational videos funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. He studied philosophy, politics and communication science at Freie Universität in Berlin and he coordinated the Ludwig Feuerbach Edition, published by Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science.