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March 20, 2015
Upcoming DAAD Webinar
Getting a Graduate Degree at the School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS) at the Universit�t Hamburg
When? March 31, 2015 at 12:00pm EST
Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/29672885096527362
DAAD North America launched a free series of webinars presenting funding opportunities to Germany and the programs offered by individual German universities.
In this webinar, DAAD representative Hanni Geist from the Information Center San Francisco will first talk about funding opportunities to pursue a graduate degree in Germany. In the second part, Courtney Peltzer-H�nicke, Head of the Dept. of International Affairs, and Katharina R�per, Project Coordinator for International Admissions, will introduce to you Universit�t Hamburg�s international graduate programs.
Universit�t Hamburg is Germany's third-largest university and North Germany's largest educational institution. Its graduate programs provide students research opportunities in innovative fields and under with renowned scientists.
For more information on the university and the programs, please visit:
www.uni-hamburg.de and www.uni-hamburg.de/degree-programs.
This webinar will be recorded. You can download the recording and the presentations at
https://www.daad.org/webinars. If you are interested in the topic and have questions, but cannot attend the live webinar, please register and feel free to send questions to [email protected].
For any questions about this webinar contact Hanni Geist at [email protected].
Advertisement: Frankfurt Summer School: "Summer of Knowledge�
The second Frankfurt Summer School �Summer of Knowledge� organized by Goethe University will take place from 20 July to 14 August 2015. Located at the new Campuses Westend and Riedberg Frankfurt Summer School will cover the subject areas �Legal Studies�, �Psychology� and �Natural and Life Sciences�.
All courses are held in English.
The focus areas of the subject areas are:
1) Legal Studies - Law in Modern Societies � Fundamental, international and interdisciplinary aspects
2) Psychology - Social Psychology and Organizational Behaviour. The broad approach of the Psychology seminars offers the possibility to participate to students of all related fields such as business administration, political science and sociology.
3) Natural and Life Sciences - Studying Modern and Ancient Biodiversity and Environments in the Context of Global Change
The participants will also have the opportunity to attend German courses.
Excursions and study tours to the German cities of Heidelberg and Berlin as well as a weekend visit to the French town of Strasbourg are also part of the program.
Find out more about Frankfurt Summer School on our website:
http://summerschool.uni-frankfurt.de/
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2015
Contact:
Anne Le Duigou Bernig, International Office,
Goethe-Universit�t Frankfurt
Gr�neburgplatz 1, PEG-Postfach 3,
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 69-798-17247
We are looking forward to seeing you this summer in Frankfurt am Main!
Your Frankfurt Summer School Team
[email protected]
Annual DAAD Sound Understanding Concert in NYC
We request the pleasure of your company at the 2015 Sound Understanding Concert. It will take place on Thursday, 16 April, 2015
at 7:30pm, at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York City.
We are proud to present some of the most talented and promising new musicians from Germany. These young men and women were selected in a nationwide competition among the best graduates of German music colleges. They each received a DAAD award to study for one year in the US or Canada.
The Sound Understanding DAAD Music Fellows 2014/15 include:
DAAD Alumni
Eva Klesse, drums
Till K�nkler, trombone
Alexander Liebermann, composition
Thomas Berkmann, double bass
Charlotte Greve, saxophone
Jan Gr�ning, viola
Manuel Schmiedel, piano
Moritz Winkelmann, piano
Click here to reserve your complimentary ticket, or contact Amra Dumisic.
Reservations must be received by Tuesday, April 7th.
If you cannot attend, but would like to make a donation to the DAAD Alumni Association, click here.
Advertisement: Master of Science Programs at University of Koblenz Landau
Master of Science in Ecotoxicology
Learn how to analyze and solve complex problems related to the chemical pollution of ecosystems
Master of Science in Environmental Sciences
Study interactions of natural and human systems from genes to landscapes to tackle the environmental crisis
Master of Science in Web Science
Build upon your IT skills and study how to understand, analyze and shape the Web and its development
More information about our master�s programs taught in English can be found here.
Why Study at the University of Koblenz-Landau?
� Degree programs with a future and good job opportunities
� Excellence in research and teaching through international, collaborative research projects
� Programs taught completely in English
� Strong focus on interdisciplinarity and an application-oriented approach
� Very good student-teaching staff ratio and individual support
� No tuition fees (since German universities are funded heavily by the state)
� A beautiful region with a mild climate and a diverse landscape
Central Point of Contact:
Welcome Center of the University of Koblenz-Landau
Email: [email protected]
International ranking confirms excellent reputation of German universities
The British magazine �Times Higher Education� recently released its current �World Reputation Ranking." The outcome revealed that Germany, the United States and Great Britain are the top three countries worldwide with the most universities represented. Three German universities are ranked in the top 50 and another three in the top 100.
�The results demonstrate that our efforts in the higher education sector are bearing fruit. They also show the impact of the DAAD and other research organisations. Concise information about Germany as a place of higher education and research and successful research marketing have significantly contributed to generating better awareness of the high quality,� said DAAD President Prof. Margret Wintermantel.
The ranking confirms a positive trend which the latest higher education statistics substantiate. For years German universities have accepted an increasing number of foreign students and researchers, and indeed, Germany has meanwhile become the most important non-English-speaking host country in the world. According to the German Federal Statistical Office, some 320,000 foreign students enrolled at German universities in the winter semester of last year, a six-percent increase from the previous year. It would seem that Germany is well ahead of meeting the goal set by the DAAD and the German federal government to increase the number of foreign students to 350,000 by 2020.
For further reading on this topic, please click here.
Call for Applications: Fellowships with the Berlin Research Group
The Research Group �The International Rule of Law � Rise or Decline?� invites applications for three Fellowships from 1 October 2015.
The Research Group examines the role of international law in a changing global order. Develop�ments in recent years give rise to the question whether the move towards an international rule of law, which seems to continue in some areas, has lost momentum in others. Inter-state crises in Eastern Europe and Asia display renewed thinking in terms of geopolitical spheres of influence. Collective efforts to address global issues through universal international law meet difficulties in certain fields such as climate protection and world trade. Can we, under current conditions, still observe a legalization/juridification of international relations based on a universal understanding of values, or are we seeing a tendency towards an informalization or a reformalization of interna�tional law, or even an erosion of international legal norms? Or are we simply observing a slump in the development towards an international rule of law based on a universal understanding of values?
The Research Group addresses these questions from a legal and a political science perspective.
The working language of the group is English.
Deadline for applications is March 31, 2015.
For further information and application deadlines, click here.
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