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January 24, 2014
DAAD Application Deadlines Approaching
The Undergraduate Scholarship program supports highly qualified undergraduate students pursuing studies at German universities, typically in the context of one of their home institution's exchange programs. The application deadline for students seeking support to study in Germany during the 2014-15 academic year is January 31, 2014.
Further details on this program can be found at: www.daad.org/undergrad
RISE is a summer internship program for undergraduate students in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. RISE offers unique opportunies for Bachelor students to work with research groups at universities and top research institutions across Germany for a period of 2 to 3 months. The working language will be English. All scholarhips holders receive stipends from DAAD to help cover living expenses. The deadline for summer 2014 is January 31. More information, all available internships and application details can be found at:
www.daad.de/rise/en/
RISE professional is an internship program for undergraduate DAAD alumni and graduate students in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. RISE professional offers unique opportunies for students to work in a German company for a period of 6 to 24 weeks.German language requirements depend on the nature of the internship. All scholarhip holders receive stipends from DAAD to help cover living expenses, and the companies will contribute an additional stipend. The deadline is January 31. All available interships and application deatails can be found at: www.daad.de/rise-pro/en/index.html
The Group Study Visit program offers financial support for subject-related academic information visits to Germany organized by faculty members for groups of students. Applications for trips taking place during the 2014 summer semester are being accepted through to February 1, 2014. Details on the program and how to apply can be found at: www.daad.org/groupvisits
Advertisement: Hessen International University 2014
The Hessen International Summer University (ISU) at the Philipps-Universit�t Marburg is a four-week summer study program offering specialized seminars in English, credits (up to 9 ECTS), weekend field trips to various destinations in Germany and France and more!
This year the summer university will be dedicated to a tantalizing topic: Europe and the Middle East in Transition
Program Dates: 19. July � 16. Aug. 2014
Target Group:
The Summer University is especially intended for undergraduate students. Also cordially invited to participate are all others who would like to learn more about the topic and who would like to learn the German language from scratch or improve German skills already present.
Program Structure:
The program covered by the fee consists of the
German language module + one seminar module that you may choose of the following four:
Politics/International Relations
Business/Economics
Cultural Studies/Sociology
EU-Germany-Middle East
In each module two seminars and a supplement course are offered.
All classes, with the exception of language courses and 1 seminar, are taught in English.
Why ISU Marburg?
The program offers a rich mix of teaching quality and a wide range of perspectives on the topic. You will spend unforgettable four weeks with students from all over the world in a fairy tale location in the heart of Germany.
Join us and see for yourself!
Browse our website for more information:
www.uni-marburg.de/isu
New Book from DAAD and IIE Explores International and Collaborative Degree Programs
Reflecting the increasing popularity of joint and double degree programs in internationalizing higher education, a new book published by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) brings together expert insight from 33 authors spanning six world regions for the first truly global analysis of collaborative degree programs and what they mean for students and higher education today. Available this month from IIEBooks, _Global Perspectives on International Joint and Double Degree Programs_ provides an orientation for higher education institutions, government agencies, and other related organizations as they develop their approaches and policies.
Articles include: � Institutional perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America
� Essays on student demand, employability of graduates, and quality assurance
� A conceptual framework for collaborative degree programs
� Studies of collaborative degree programs in regional policy contexts
� In-depth case studies of collaborative degree programs
Global Perspectives on International Joint and Double Degree Programs is edited by Matthias Kuder of Freie Universit�t Berlin, Nina Lemmens of DAAD, and Daniel Obst of IIE. Obst and Kuder are co-authors of the IIE international survey
report �Joint and Double Degree Programs in the Global Context� (2011). Global Perspectives on International Joint and Double Degree Programs is the first in a new �Global Perspectives� series of joint publications by IIE and DAAD that will explore pressing issues in international higher education. It can be ordered from www.iiebooks.org for $39.95.
About the Global Perspectives Series
The �Global Perspectives� series is a joint effort by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to explore current international education policy issues from a global lens.
IIE and DAAD
DAAD and IIE have a long and fruitful shared history. IIE was established in 1919 in the aftermath of World War I to catalyze educational exchange. The Institute met the need for a central point of contact and source of information for both U.S. higher education and foreign nations interested in developing educational ties with the United States. In the early 1920s, Carl Joachim Friedrich, a student of political science at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, came to study in the United States. He persuaded IIE to create fellowships for 13 other German students of social and political science. In 1925, this vision was greatly expanded with the founding in Germany of the Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD), which has expanded to become what is now DAAD. Today, DAAD and IIE provide international exchange opportunities for nearly 100,000 students, scholars and professionals each year. Both organizations are at the forefront of supporting and promoting the development of closer institutional ties between colleges and universities on all continents.
Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Research College
The Research College (Kolleg-Forschergruppe) "The Transfomative Power of Europe: The European Union and the Diffusion of Ideas," directed by Professors Tanja A. B�rzel and Thomas Risse, is offering up to four postdoctoral fellowships. Applications on projects located in the field of comparative regionalism are particularly encouraged. WThe following topics are of particular interest:
* Regional cooperation and integration in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
* Adaptation of and resistance to European institutional models and policies in other parts of the world
* Diffusion of institutions and policies from other parts of the world to Europe and the EU including historical perspectives
The fellows must have their PhD submitted by the fall of 2014 (September 30, 2014 at the latest). The duration of the fellowship is 12 months (October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2015) with an annual stipend of EUR
30.000 (including travel expenses).
Fellowship duration is 12 months starting October 2014.
Deadline for Applications: March 15, 2014.
Further information can be found at: www.transformeurope.eu
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