programmes andthe PROMOS programme,through whichthe.daad.supports stays abroad. throughthe universities EU mobility programmes such as Erasmus+ andthe German. Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) also. help make international study possible thefact that university students from educationally. disadvantaged groups go abroad more seldom. than their academic peers is also due tothe fact. that they assessthe value of astay abroad somewhat lower, andare less likely to have spent. time abroad during their school years auniversity student with prior experience abroad will bemore open tothe idea of going abroad during. his or her degree programme. new ways to support young researchersthe.daad.programme “Postdoctoral Researchers. International Mobility Experience” (PRM E )

is anew approach to promoting international. mobility among young researchersthe funding. covers aone-year research stayin aforeign. country followed by ahalf-year reintegration. phase at aGerman university Duringthe stay. abroad,the researcher can already begin working. withthe German host university to.plan and. preparethe continuation of his or her research. back home This helps ensure thatthe newly. acquired knowledge is put to use as efficientlyand effectively as possible backin Germanythe PR

M E programme is open to applicants. of all nationalities, and is therefore an attractive. opportunity for foreign students pursuing their. doctoral studiesin Germany Response to theprogramme has revealed tremendous demandin this areathe first call for applications. resultedin 344 application submissions, from. which 31 top candidates were chosen to receive. funding Funding for PR

M E is provided bythe Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF) andthe EU programme COFUND. Internships aroundthe world. Whetherin Latin America, Africa or Asia, the“RISE worldwide” programme has established. partnershipsin countries such as South Africa,Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan and Japan. Each year “RISE worldwide” provides research. internships to German university students inthe field of medicine as well asinthe natural,geophysical and engineering sciences.despite challenges onthe political and economic. front,the “Russiain Practice” programme maintained its successful trajectory As part of theprogramme, German.companies provide German. university students and graduates with internshipsin their.russian branch offices, where. interns gain valuable insight into possible fields. of work “Russiain Practice” remains an attractive opportunity with benefits for both studentsand participating.companies. «. With its P. R. I. M. E

programme,the DAAD. continues to explore new. channels for international. mobility for young. researchers. ofthe***

applicants who responded tothe first call for applications, 31 were selected to receive funding

successful young researchersinthe P. R. I. M. E

programme assemble for thekick­offin Bonn (left)

With “RIse worldwide” to south Africa’s northern. Cape. Highlight***

Relaxed atmosphere at. lake Wannseein Berlin

“Thinking about Europein terms of solidarity“(“Europa solidarisch denken!”) isthe motto of theinterdisciplinary “Kolleg Europa”, launchedin ***

as ajoint initiative ofthe DAAD,the Alfred Toepfer. Stiftung F. V. S. andthe Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Overthe course of one year, “Kolleg. Europa” offers 60 graduate studentsthe opportunity to take partin interdisciplinary, international. working groups on topics related to Germanyand Europe - an opportunity for dialogue, exchange,networking and definingthe research topics ofthe future. in late September 2014, “phase one” ofthe Kolleg. kicked-off with an event atthe Wannsee Forum inBerlin. The opening ceremony included welcoming. speeches by high-ranking representatives of thethree partner institutions and was followed bya..plenary session onthe question of solidarity inEurope. All ofthe lecturers took partinthe.plenary. session, including Prof. Michael Werner, director ofthe Centre interdisciplinaire d‘études etde recherche sur l‘Allemagne (CIERA) and Prof. Ton Nijhuis,director ofthe Institute for German Studies (DIA)

atthe University of Amsterdam. This was followed. by lectures and, among other items onthe agenda,a podium discussion onthe Ukraine conflict,.organisedin part by.russian and Ukrainian students. theweek-long Kolleg event finished with field trips tothe House ofthe Wannsee Conference, to theWeißensee Jewish cemetery and Tempelhof Park

The participants ofthe Kolleg included seven. master’s students and eight PhD students from. 10 countries, all of whom study and/or work at. DAAD-supported centres for German and European Studies. The participants took partin working. groups led by international experts, engaging. with students from German and international. universitiesin discussions onthe subject of “Who. shapes Europe? Civil societies, parties, borders and. national identitiesin Europe” and “How do we tellthe European story? - Cultural (inter)relationshipsand European spaces of resonance”. The discussions considered historical, economic, legal and. cultural-studies perspecti***

supporting young multipliers. With its “Kolleg Europa” programme and its Centres. for German and European Studies,the.daad.pursues.comprehensive goals: to bring together and. inspire international and German students across. disciplines and national boundaries, and to give. this young generation of multipliersthe German

European expertise they need to ensure continuityinthe collaborative efforts between Germanyand its partner countries. With funding provided. bythe Federal Foreign Office,the.daad.currently. supports 17 centresin 11 countries

“Kolleg europa” fosters interdisciplinary exchange26the scholarship and. support programme stIBet. is first onthe list of DAAD. programmes designed to make foreign students feel. welcomein germany

Structures for. internationalisation An international outlook and strong ties to international university partners has long-since. characterisedthe higher education landscape inGermanythe.daad.supports these universitiesand their international partners to further.develop these networks and implement their. internationalisation strategies. ‘Welcome’ culture helps foreign. students acclimate. Foreign students and researchersare often more. productive and successful during their stay inGermany if they can integrate into university. life andthe German culture To support this, theDAAD works to create a“welcome” culture. through various programmes designed to foster. openness and hospitality First and foremost on. this list of programmes isthe scholarship and. support programme STIBET, for which theFederal Foreign Office (AA) provides some. 7 5 million eurosin funding each year aprogramme evaluation.combined with asurvey of 11,000 foreign students confirmedthe success. of STIBETthe majority ofthe universities surveyed indicated that over 50 percent of investmentsinthe “welcome” culture were made bythe STIBET programme; for roughly one-third. of participating universities this figure was over. 80 percentthe majority of foreign students are. satisfied with their stayin Germany and 54 percent even want to stayin Germany after.completing their studies Nonetheless, many foreign. students still find it difficult to make contact to Germans, and many still choose to cut their stay. short Theseare indications that there is still. much to be done - and reason enough for theDAAD to further expand STIBETthe European Union’s Erasmus programme has. served as acornerstone of internationalisation. for over 25 yearsthe international dimensioninthe new Erasmus+ programme now gives. students from outsidethe EUthe opportunity to.complete part of their degree programme at an. Erasmus university; atthe same time students. from EU countries can conduct semesters abroadin non-EU countries (see ‘Highlight’ p 32/33). Quality over quantity. More recently, internationalisation efforts on thepart of German universities have focused on. building international alliances - an objectivein line withthe DAAD’s young flagship programme “Strategic Partnerships and Thematic. Networks” This programme, which issued its. first call for applicationsin March 2012, represents anew generation of.daad.modular. programmes It provides targeted, effective support to German universities with implementing. their internationalisation strategies Partnerships throughoutthe worldare used to enhance. a university’s international.competitivenessand prestigethe focus on quality rather than. quantity enables international cooperation partners to replace random individual initiatives. with carefully.planned and targeted, long-term. partnerships. University internationalisation strategies27

›the first 21 projects were approvedin early 2013,each with afunding duration of four years, andthe first two years have proven successful as. collaborative partnerships take hold,.common. structuresare established and expanded, and thepartnerships attract more and more international. attention One example isthe thematic network. “Zones of Cultural Contact and Conflictin Eastern Europe”, which involvesthe Herder Insti tute. for Historical Research on East Central Europe,Giessen University, as well as univer sities inAlmaty (Kazakhstan), Minsk (Belarus), Łódź(Poland), Kazan (Russian Federation) and ClujNapoca (Romania) Another example isthe strategic partnership between Leibniz Universität. Hannover and St Petersburg State Polytechnical. University, which focuses on estab lishing joint. double-degree programmes, promoting young. researchers and forming collaborative networks. between research projects and teamsthe “strategic Partnershipsand thematic networks”. represents anew generation of.daad.programmes

the focus on quality rather. than quantity takes international cooperation toa. new level. the programme’s. second call for applications. was issuedin ***

28the “Strategic Partnerships and Thematic. Networks” projects also receive ongoing support. fromthe.daad.Due tothe continued demand. onthe part of universities, asecond call for. applications was issuedin July 2014 and once. again elicited avery positive response, witha. total of 89 applications submitted As with thefirst call for applications,the engineering and. natural sciences werethe most.common areas. of focus amongthe applicants. takingthe lead internationally. Alsoin great demand aroundthe world are. German transnational education (TNE) programmes, whichthe.daad.has supported for. over ten years through adedicated TNE programme With funding fromthe Federal Ministry. of Education and Research (BMBF), TNE programmes emphasise quality and international. cooperation, andare highly regarded aroundthe worldthe most visible of these projects atthe international levelarethe newly-established. universities such asthe German University inCairo (GUC),the German Jordanian University(GJU) andthe German University of Technology(GUTech)in Oman More than 20,000 studentsare currently enrolledin German TNE projects,which have produced over 10,000 graduates inthe last several years After opening its doorsin September 2013,the new Turkish-German. Universityin Istanbul was officially inaugurated. by German Federal President Joachim Gauckand Turkish President Abdullah Gül on. 29 April 2014the university began with three. bachelor’s and three master’s degree programmes; additional degree programmes are..planned for 2015 Five German universities - FU Berlin, TU Berlin, Heidelberg University, theUniversity of Cologne andthe University of Potsdam -are collaborating withthe TurkishGerman University to develop and establish each. of its five academic departments..competition to increase international. mobility. Roughly onein three university students inGermany spends aportion of their university. years abroad Although this is alarge percentage..compared to other countries,the.daad.wants to increase this rate to 50 percent bythe year. 2020in 2014,the.daad.intensified its “go out!. study worldwide” information and marketing. campaign financed bythe Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) With added. emphasis on media relations,the campaign also. reached out to secondary school teachers as An important multiplier group along with. german Federal President. Joachim gauck and turkish. President Abdullah gül. officially openedthe new. turkish­german Universityin Istanbulin April ***

table 2: Programmes to promotethe internationalisation of higher educationin 2014(selection)

I. higher education cooperation and networks. Partnership programmes. A new passage to India. PPP - Project-related exchange programmes. Partnerships with Eastern and South-Eastern European countries. Partnerships with Japan and Korea. IPID / IPID4all - International Doctoratesin Germany. Strategic Partnerships / Thematic Networks. Welcome to Africa / ICT for Africa. Programmes promoting academic cooperation with Greece / South-Eastern Europe. Support and events for.daad.alumni abroad. transnational educational projects. Study programmes.run by German higher education institutions abroad. Study coursesin German. Bi-lateral educational partnerships with universities and colleges abroad. specialist centres and centres of excellence. Specialist centresin Africa. Centres of excellence for research and teaching abroad / Specialist centres CUPL and IRDLK. lectureships. Programme for visiting lectureships. Long-term lectureships. Short-term lectureships

II. Mobility. Erasmus. PROMOS - Programme to enhancethe mobility of German students. ISAP - International Study and Exchange Programmes. Integrated international study courses with double degree. Bachelor.plus. Go East. STIBET - Scholarship and guidance-counselling programme. RISE - Research Internshipsin Science and Engineering. Conference travel and lecture tours. Higher education marketing (GATE-Germany)

Research marketing. go out!. number of projects. number of beneficiaries. expenditures inthousand eUR

members ofthe university.community and. academic/career advisors atthe German Federal. Employment Agency To better reach secondary. school and university students,the DAAD.developed a“go out” app which can be used to accessthe.daad.scholarship database and help..plan asemester abroadin 2014,the.daad.encouraged universities to develop new ideas for promoting international. mobility among students atotal of 65 universities took partinthe.competition, financed bythe BMBF, to identifythe best advertising and. motivational campaignsthe ten winners each. received 15,000 eurosin prize money and were. honouredin May 2014 atthe 8th Symposium onthe International Mobility of German Studentsin Berlin

nthe “go out” app helps. school and university. students.plan and prepare. for astay abroad, and. allows users to access theDAAD scholarship database. Rio de Janeiro. Buenos Aires. Campinas. São Carlos. São Paulo. San Luis Potosí. Guadalajara. Mexico City Mérida. Valparaíso. Santiago de Chile. San José. Santa Marta. Curitiba. Recife. Santa Maria. San Juan. Lima. Bogotá***

opening ceremony:Vice­Chancellors of tU. Ilmenau and University of Magdeburg, Prof. Peter. scharff and Prof. Jens. strackeljan; Vice­Chancellor. of Kazan national Research. technical University,Prof. Albert gilmutdinov;and.daad.secretary general. Dr. Dorothea Rüland (l. to r. )

strong partners are. even stronger together. First german­Russian university. launched. Whenthe.russian Federation’s. semi-autonomous Republic of Tatarstan inquired about an academic partnershipinthe engineering sciences,the response. was very positive. “It was thequality ofthe.russian partner. university that convinced us,”. explains Dr. Stephan Geifes who. headsthe DAAD’s Higher Education Projects Abroad group. “We. were also very impressed by how. well thought outthe proposal. was - and we recognised right. awaythe added value for both. sides;in this case you have partners whoare already strong,who will become even stronger. working together. ”. Less than two years later,in September 2014,the first GermanRussian universityin Kazan was. opened:the German-Russian. Institute of Advanced Technologies (GRIAT). GRIAT’s partner. universities includethe Technische Universität Ilmenau andthe University of Magdeburg onthe German side, andthe Kazan. National Research Technical. University (Tupolev University)

onthe.russian side, one of 50.designated national research. universitiesin.russia. The DAAD. supportsthe project with funding. fromthe BMBF-financed transnational education programme(TNE). Althoughthe project has. also received significant initial. funding from both Tatarstanand.russia, GRIAT’s goal is to become financially independent. withthe help of tuition fees

A win­win situation. For Tatarstan, GRIAT is another. stepinthe direction of internationalisation. “German engineering programmes have an. excellent reputation and theclose collaboration between. German universities and. german higher education. projects funded by theDAAD. German higher education. projects abroad. Centres of Excellence inAfrica / African Excellence. “exceed” - Higher Education. Excellencein Development. Cooperation. Bicultural study programmes. Centres of Excellence. Study programmesin GermanMinsk. Bishkek. Bratislava. Krakow. Ternopil. Novosibirsk. Barnaul. Krasnoyarsk. Donetsk. Kharkiv. Kiev. Budapest. Jaroslawl. St. Petersburg. Sofia Tbilisi. Sumy. Szeged. Istanbul. Amman. Ankara. Yerevan. Baku. Muscat. Almaty. Bangalore. Chiang Mai. Surabaya. Bangkok. Beppu. Abu Dhabi. Qingdao Busan. Shanghai. Meknès. Hefei Nanjing. Hangzhou. Ho Chi Minh City. Kinshasa Dar es Salaam. Windhoek. Kerak. Jimma. Ouagadougou Bahir Dar. Mansoura. Cape Coast. Mbeya. Johannesburg Maputo. Mumbai Hanoi. Kathmandu. Faisalabad. Maseno. Cairo. Moscow. àód´z Warsaw. Prague. Timis¸oara. Cluj-Napoca. Brasov. Beirut. El Gouna. Da Nang Los Baños. Addis Ababa. Cotonou Hawassa. Kuala Lumpur. Bangi Singapore. Kazan. Pskov. Gambang. Riga. Cape Town. Port Elizabeth. Nairobi. Eldoret. Nakuru. Konya. Antalya Aleppo. Mekelle. Accra. Lomé. Kara. Gaborone. Yogyakarta. Bogor. Beira. Zomba

industry is, forthe.russian side,a very important factor as well,”. explains Dr. Gisela Zimmermann,DAAD project manager for Higher. Education Projectsin Eastern. Europe,the Caucasus and Central. Asia

Forthe German partners, GRIAT. is an opportunity to establish. a presenceinthe Volga region,one of.russia’s most important. industrial centres. “Moreover,GRIAT is an opportunity to work. with one of.russia’s top universities,” says Zimmermann. “They. gain extremely well qualified. master’s and doctoral studentsand profit from joint research. projects. ”. Additional partners are. welcome. Currently, GRIAT students are. enrolledin four engineering.degree programmes. The language of instruction is English

Becausethe students will.complete their third semester at one. ofthe German partner universities,the curriculum also includes. German language training

GRIAT.plans to add university. partners and additional degree. programmes overthe long term

Withthe tremendous enthusiasm, energy and.commitment. behindthe launch of GRIAT, theonly “bad news” isthe political. tension betweenthe EU and..russia, which could make it. difficult to win new partners forthe project

The.daad.nevertheless remains..committed to GRIAT. “We’re very. clear about our position and we. also make clear where there are. problems between Germanyand.russia,” says Geifes. “But weare also.committed to maintaining our partnershipsin thearea of education and making. surethe lines of.communication. remain open. ”Highlight. 32the long-standing, highly-successful. Erasmus programme -the EU’s oldest education programme - was theinspiration forthe new “ Erasmus+”. programme. Since January 2014,Erasmus+.combines existing EU programmesinthe areas of education(secondary school, higher education),professional training and youth.development. In Germany,the higher. education.component of Erasmus+ is. administered bythe National Agency. for EU Higher Education Coop eration. withinthe DAAD. To better fulfil this. responsibility,the NA.daad.made. changes to its.organisa tional structure and adjusted its focus areas;. it went into effect on 1 March ***

The EU has approved abudget of arecor***

7 billion euros for Erasmus+ programmes through ***

The scope ofthe funding attracted agreat deal. of interestinthe national conference to launch. Erasmus+. Over 500 representatives from all five. Erasmus+ educational sectors came together with. policymakersin Berlinin April ***

in late June 2014,the NA.daad.invited representatives from all participating German universities tothe annual Erasmus+ conference to conducta. progress assessment. After one year it was clear. that measuresinthe key action areas “ mobility”,“partnerships and cooperation projects” and. “support for policy reform” had been launched. successfully

The EU programmes were also amajor theme atthe European Association for International Education (EAIE) conferencein Prague. An impact analysis. ofthe Erasmus higher education programmes,initiated bythe European.commission and conducted by CHE Consult, confirmed, for example,that time spent abroad improves employability for. students and increases career mobility

Fruitful collaborationthe NA.daad.developed anew format for joint. regional events together withthe participating. German Erasmus National Agencies atthe Federal. Institute for Vocational Education and Training,the Educational Exchange Service and Youth for. Europe. At two such events, examples of crossdisciplinary projects provided participants with. valuable input and inspiration for their own. projects. The NA.daad.strategic partnership withthe University of Applied Labour Studies (HdBA)

caughtthe attention of representatives from. all educational sectors. Previously conducted as. purely informational events,the more hands-on,practice-oriented approach has added quality and.depth tothe individual Agency events. The format. will therefore continuein ***

Innovative approaches were also implementedinthe area of “support for policy reform” - thethird key-action area within Erasmus+ (“Support. for policy reform-Forward-looking cooperation. projectsin education and training”). The FAIR. project, which is supported withinthe context of this third key-action area, wants to develop. A european success story: erasmu***

A big crowd for erasmus+ inBerlin. Alsoin attendance. were Androulla Vassiliou,eU.commissioner for. education, and Dr. siegbert. Wuttig, Director of thenational Agency for eU. higher education Cooperation withinthe DAAD automatic recognition mechanisms overthe next. two and ahalf years. Germany is apartnerina. large European consortium that includes cooperation onthe state ministerial level. The.daad.has. also been.commissioned with aproject to aid inthe implementation ofthe European Higher Education Area reforms, called “Support to European. Higher Education Reformsin Germany” (STEERING)

This is considered afollow-up project tothe socalled “Bologna Experts”

Investmentin international mobilitythe international dimension of Erasmus+ has. created anew challenge. Inthe second half of 2014,the configuration of these.components was thesubject of lively discussions betweenthe European. National Agencies andthe European.commission. One objective is to enable greater mobility. by increasing collaboration between European. universities andthe European Union’s neighbours,such as Serbia or Belarus, as well as with partner. countries on other continents. Fifteen and ahalf. million euros has been budgeted for 2015 for. Germany alone to finance some 2,500 semester. scholarships - funds that will be channelled to theuniversities through NA DAAD. In addition, significant budgets arein.place for capacity building. projects,the Jean Monnet Programme and theErasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme,whichare all administered centrally bythe EU..commission. The international mobility and theEU university partnerships within Erasmus+ arethe ideal.complement tothe strategic international cooperative projects conducted by German. universities. Becausethe international dimension. resultsin arelatively.complex programme and. financing structures,the NA.daad.provides. consulting support tothe universities, including. support withthe application process***

Thereare many good reasons to learn theGerman language, and more and more young. people aroundthe worldare citingthe benefits:enhanced career opportunities,the option ofa. study or research stayin Germany, orthe pursuit. of other cultural, political or economic interestsin response tothe growing demand for German. language training,the.daad.has re-positioned. its activitiesin this area aDAAD paper publishedin 2014 - “Promotingthe German language - needs and perspectives” - outlines theprin ciples of its new approach, which includes. flexibility, orientation tothe respective needsin each region, cooperation with local partners,and astrong.commitment to internationalisation and multilingualismthe core objectives. ofthe DAAD’s activities to promotethe German. languageare academic training of German. teachers and lecturers for schools, universitiesand application-oriented areas, as well as greater. interconnectedness among its many locations. aroundthe world Another.daad.goal is to provide support to outstanding programmes inGerman and European studies as away of training highly qualified expertsinthe sciences,business, politics and society. german coursesin great demandin southern europein support ofthe above-mentioned objectives,the.daad.also.organises German Studies. con ferences once ayear for German Studies. specialists, Germany experts from aspecified. region as well as experts from within Germanyinthe reporting year, participants met for an. eventin Dresden entitled “Paradigmen einer. aktuellen Germanistikin Spanien und

Portugal”,where topics ranged from linguistics and. language teaching to literature, cultural studiesand interpretingthe German language. Conference of german. language experts from spain,Portugal and germany (left)

german studies from thePortuguese perspective:Prof. Antonio sousa Ribeiro. fromthe university inCoimbra, Portugal spoke inDresden

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Bundled expertise. Conference of Centres for. german and european studies. “Inthe USA, Canada,the UK,France,the Netherlands, Poland,Russia, Israel, China, Japan or. South Korea - all around theworld you’ll find academics. teach ing or conducting research. on Germany at one of the17 DAAD-supported Centres for. German and European Studies(ZeDES). The centres bundle. interdisciplinary research on. contemporary history and current. events;in their home countries. they also often serve as thepoint of contact for policymakersandthe public,” explains Christian. Strowa fromthe.daad.department for International German. Studies and German as aForeign. Language. Another function ofthe centres is to heighten theperception of German as alanguage of science and research

A joint conferencein December. 2014 provided another opportunity to further strengthen and. expandthe ZeDES network. For. scientists and researchers from. 11 different countries,the network provides aunique opportunity to initiate.comprehensive,multifaceted research, and gain. new perspectives on topics relevant to Germany and Europe

Internationalisation. of research perspectives. Participantsinthe 2014 conference consideredthe topic of disruption and continuity inGerman history - “ turning points”. between 1914 and 2014 - fromthe perspective of their different. fields and areas of expertise

DAAD Secretary General. Dr. Dorothea Rüland and Nicole. Menzenbach, head ofthe Science, Research and Universities.department atthe Federal. Foreign Office, greeted experts. from aroundthe world who. came to Berlin to engage indialogue. The positive responseand feedback fromthe participants demonstratedthe value. ofthe conference for facilitating. worldwide academic exchange. onthe subject of Germany and. Europe

“the outbreaks of World War

With its retrospective on(100 years ago) and World War II(75 years ago), or onthe fall ofthe Berlin Wall (25 years ago), theZeDES conference was extremely. productivein this extraordinary..commemorative year ***

Many. ofthe discussions revisited theage-old question: ‘What can we. learn from history?’ as we look. ahead intothe 21st century

This topic is one that is addressed. again and againin public. discourse

Dr. Krijn thijs, postdocin theDuitsland Instituut bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam (DIA)

“ered atthe conference were new. Many ofthe aspects considWith our different regional and. interdisciplinary perspectives, we. were able to create something. unique

Prof. Michael Werner, director. ofthe Centre interdisciplinaire. d‘études etde recherche sur. l‘Allemagne (CIeRA)in Paris. “ view aunique forum and oppor-the ZeDES conference isin my. tunity for intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue.

was able to learn agreat deal about theGermany researchers from different centres - their research focus. areas as well as their different. political and cultural perspectives

It was interesting to see how. these perspectives varied and how. they reflected, to alarge degree,the relations betweenthe given. country and Germany

Prof. huang liaoyu, director ofthe Center of german studies(ZDs)

in Beijing.

Dr. Krijn thijs spoke about. “turning points” between. 1914 and 2014 (top)

Prof. huang liaoyu, Director,Center of german studies(ZDs)in Beijingin conversation with Prof. hartmut. eggert fromthe Freie Universität Berlin

nthe egyptian translation. studies expert nahla tawfik. receivedthe grimm sponsorship Award for young. foreign scholars. tawfik. champions modern german. language instruction that. engages and appeals to today’s studentsin egypt

Presentation ofthe ***

Jacob and Wilhelm grimm. Prize: lecture by prize. winner Prof. Yixu liu (left)

and smiles with MinDirig. Andreas Meitzner,Prof. Christian Fandrych,Dr. nahla tawfik and DAAD. Vice President Prof. Joybrato. Mukherjee (l. to r. )

lively dialogue and exchange atthe anniversary meeting. of.daad.France lektors inParis (below)

While fewer southern European students are. interestedin traditional German Studies programmes, more and more want to learn theGerman language University degree programmesand German teacher training programmes must. respond tothe demandthe 2014 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize was. very muchin keeping withthe DAAD’s strategic. positioning Each yearthe.daad.awards theGrimm Prize to foreign scholars for outstanding. workinthe areas of German literature and. language, German as aforeign language, as well. as German Studiesin September,the prize was. awarded tothe German Studies specialist Yixu. Lu from Australia Lu’s workin China, Germanyand Australia sets an examplein her field for. openness, internationalisation and intercultural. understandingthe Grimm Sponsorship Award. for young foreign scholars went to Egyptian. translation studies expert Nahla Tawfik, who. has made abig contribution to modern German. language instruction that engages and appeals to today’s studentsin Egypt. “A look back intothe future”the Lektor programme isthe DAAD’s most..comprehensive programme forthe promotion. of German and German language studies Some. 600 Lektors teach at universitiesin over***

countries, including 57 Lektors for individual. subjects Lektors also promote Germany as an. academic host country and provide information. on scholarship opportunitiesthe year ***

markedthe 60th anniversary ofthe highly. successful Lektor programmein France, former..daad.Lektors gathered for an anniversary. celebration entitled “A look back intothe future”. More than 150 Lektor alumni came together inParis to discussthe many facets of their workthe career paths of Lektor alumniare as diverse. as aLektor’s responsibilities Having once. served.daad.as language and culture professionals, today they have established themselvesinthe sciences, research, business or.communications - orare working again as cultural intermediaries, e g for foundations. Two ofthe DAAD’s programmesare involved inthe “Schools: Partners forthe Future” (PASCH)

campaign, sponsored bythe German federal. government First,the scholarship programme. for outstanding graduates of German schools. abroad and partner schools, and second, theBIDS programme (BetreuungsInitiative Deutsche. Auslands- und

PartnerSchulen), asupport initiative for German schools abroad and partner. schools aimed at German universities table 3: Programmes for promotingthe german language abroadin 2014(selection)

Centres for German and European Studies. German language and literature studies institute partnerships (GIP)

Language and specialist courses (intensive language courses; university summer and winter courses)

Lektor programme. Language assistant programme. number of projects. number of beneficiaries. expenditures inthousand eUR,the scholarship programme supported. 645 young people from over 50 countries forthe full duration of their university degree. programmesin Germany Twenty-five of thesescholarship holders gatheredin Berlin inNovember 2014 to meet with Minister of State. Maria Böhmer and discussthe topic of openness and hospitalityin Germany,

e Germany’s. “welcome culture”the scholarship holders. have been very well educatedin their PASCH. schools at home and have excellent German. language skills - agood basis for successful. studiesin Germanythe.daad.provides funding tothe BIDS programme so that PASCH. schools can network with German universities. A new call for applications was issued for theprogrammein ***

«. learning german and. studying abroad:the DAAD. has re­positioned its. activities for promoting. german language and. german studiesin response tothe changing demand. aroundthe world***

By expanding its existing. scholarship programmes,the.daad.wants to support An additional 1,000 African. students by ***

ninthe area of higher education cooperation with.developing countries,the DAAD’s main focusin 2014 was on assessing and increasing theimpact of its activitiesin Africathe DAAD’s. Africa strategy and its corresponding programmes have long-since made its markin theregion and will continue to have an impact intothe futurein 2015,the.daad.will expand its. existing programmes so that an additional 1***

African scholarship holders can be supported. bythe year 2019 This isthe largest and most. important projectinthe area of scholarships and. will be funded bythe Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). together with West Africathe.daad.has expanded its cooperation with. West Africainthe area of higher education. managementinthe context ofthe Dialogue on. Innovative Higher Education Strategies (DIES)

projectin collaboration withthe African and. Malgache Higher Education Council (CAMES)

the.daad.will support West African universitiesand regional.playersinthe area of quality. assurancein November 2014the.daad.hosted. a confer encein Dakar, Senegal where more than. 170 attendees from 19 African countries, among. them government and university decision. makers, heads of university quality assurance. offices and national accreditation agencies,discussed issues of quality assurancein francophone West and Central Africa, and developed. a.common yet differentiated understanding of quality assurancethe University of DuisburgEssen isthe German partner for this DIES project,which will continue with training measures inboth Germany and Africa. Investmentsin quality management pay offin September 2014,the Global University Network for Innovation Africa andthe African. Quality Assurance Network honouredthe DAAD. for its rolein improvingthe quality of higher. educationthe award not only confirms thevalue and impact of past efforts, but motivatesthe.daad.to continue inten sifying its engagement intothe futurethe University-Business Partnership programme was expanded significantlyin Africathe.daad.also continued its collaboration withthe Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale. Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to establishthe PanAfrican University (PAU) aconsortium made.development and dialogue. “They all have one thingin.common: theyare all striving towards ajustand peaceful world,” said.daad.Secretary General Dr. Dorothea Rüland. aboutthe scholarship holdersinthe.daad.programme “Public Policyand Good Governance” atthe “Training Leaders forthe Global South”. eventin Berlin

Overthe last five years, atotal of 463 scholarship holders. from Africa, Asia and South America have advanced their careers with. special master’s degree programmes. Their goal is to help shape thefuture of their home countries as political leaders and policy makers

“I want to putthe new knowledge into practice politically when

return to South America,” said Argentinean scholarship holder Micaela Hierro. Doriin Berlin