The University of Bonn Internationally connected

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1 Th Univrsity of Bonn Intrnationally connctd

2 Wlcom to Bonn Th intrnational orintation of rsarch and taching is a ky componnt of our univrsity s profil and a guiding principl of all our activitis. Lislott Krickau-Richtr Dirctor of th Intrnational Offic Th Univrsity of Bonn cooprats with a larg numbr of univrsitis and rsarch institutions across th glob: Th Univrsity has coopration and xchang agrmnts with mor than 60 partnr univrsitis ovrsas and with 250 Europan institutions within th ERASMUS ntwork. Acadmics from Bonn ar involvd in mor than 1500 intrnational rsarch projcts around th world. Study and Rsarch in an Intrnational Environmnt At Bonn w spak many languags: walking around campus you can mt faculty, gust lcturrs and studnts from Europ, Africa, Asia, Australia and th Amricas. Evn if you just brifly visit our univrsity you will quickly raliz that, as our mission statmnt puts it, th Univrsity of Bonn is a rsarch univrsity that oprats intrnationally. Th Univrsity of Bonn is on of Grmany s lading univrsitis, and its intrnational orintation of rsarch and taching has a long tradition. Foundd in 1818, Bonn has always attractd minnt scholars and promising young studnts from all ovr th world. Today, intrnational study programms and th univrsity s wid ntwork of intrnational partnr institutions nsur that Bonn will continu to attract intrnational studnts and rsarchrs. And what s mor: th intrnational orintation of rsarch and taching is not only somthing that w considr to b nic to hav. Rathr, it is a ky componnt of our univrsity s profil, a guiding principl of all our activitis; or, as w say in Grman, our rotr Fadn, th rd thrad, th litmotif of our univrsity. Intrnational_Rlations.html I would lik to invit you to follow along th rd thrad, our litmotif in this brochur, and to find out how w continually intrnationaliz rsarch and taching at th Univrsity of Bonn. univrsity bonn intrnationally activ

3 Rsarch Cooprations Bonn a Mcca for intrnational rsarchrs Th Univrsity of Bonn has stablishd a wid ntwork of intrnational partnrs both on th institutional and intrprsonal lvl: Activ coopration and xchang agrmnts with mor than 300 institutions form a sound basis for our intrnational position. And as you rad this, acadmics from Bonn will b working in mor than 1,500 intrnational rsarch groups or projcts with collagus from around th glob. Th univrsity strongly supports furthr collaboration initiativs with othr univrsitis and rsarch institutions, not last bcaus rsarch collaborations also bnfit th studnts and graduats mbarking on a univrsity carr. Th univrsity also hosts a constantly growing numbr or gust lcturrs and othr intrnational rsarchrs - a trnd confirmd by Bonn s lading position in th statistics on grants and fllowships awardd by organizations lik th prstigious Alxandr von Humboldt Foundation or th Grman Acadmic Exchang Srvic (DAAD). Bonn nsurs that thos intrnational rsarchrs rciv th warmst wlcom at thir host institution: in 2006, Bonn won th Grman Wlcom Cntrs Comptition, bating a wid fild of comptitors, with its Bonn Intrnational Scholar Srvic (BISS) concpt, which guarants that all th conditions ar right for our visitors to b abl to fully concntrat on thir work! Mathmatics at Bonn an intrnational rsarch hub In 2006, as part of th Excllnc Initiativ, a 1.9-billion-uro national funding program for xcllnc in highr ducation, th Grman govrnmnt fundd th stablishmnt of th Hausdorff Cntr for Mathmatics, a Clustr of Excllnc with narly 50 profssors. With this clustr Bonn sts an xampl for othrs and is dvloping into an intrnational cntr for xprts in this fild. Th xcllnc clustr brings togthr th top rsarchrs from all ovr th world in ky aras of disciplins. An ssntial fatur is its intrdisciplinary natur: parts of Economics and th Go-Scincs, Physics, Biology or Computing rly vry closly on mathmatical know-how Bucharst N 26 6 E Star Wars in Bonn? I lik th blnd of tradition and modrnity that is prsnt both in th lif of th city and in th spirit and th organization of th univrsity. Th Mathmatics Dpartmnt is on of th top rankd in Grmany and th Computr Scinc Dpartmnt offrs a rmarkabl divrsity of strong rsarch groups and instituts in divrs filds ranging from thortical computr scinc to graphics and robotics. Prof. Cristian Sminchisscu, is locatd at th Institut for Numrical Simulation Rsarch on human visual prcption and motion captur tchnologis startd mor than a cntury bfor with mrging photographic tchniqus (background). Nowadays rcognizing visual objcts, undrstanding human motion from vidos and transfrring this into 3-dimnsional modls is th basis of advancd spcial ffcts or th construction of humanoid robots that can intract with th world samlssly, as sn.g. in th Star Wars Movi sris. In his EU-fundd HUMOREV-projct Prof. Cristian Sminchisscu, coming from North Amrica (originally born in Romania) dvlops nw computational mthods for artificial intllignc and visual rcognition. His work at th Institut for Numrical Simulation aims at crating computr programms abl to undrstand our ral world from imags and at building mathmatical modls that can b fittd into th mind of an intllignt robot: May th powr b with him! univrsity bonn intrnationally connctd

4 Graduat Education Bonn lading in graduat ducation Bonn is a tru ladr in Grmany whn it coms to ducating intrnational graduat studnts. Th univrsity has succssfully st up innovativ study programms on both th Mastr and PhD lvls. Dgr programms such as th on in Agricultural Scinc and Rsourc Managmnt, rankd as a TOP 10 intrnational Mastr s Dgr Cours Mad in Grmany by th Grman Acadmic Exchang Srvic (DAAD), assur that Bonn offrs th bst possibl ducation and supportiv infrastructur for intrnational graduats. In addition, th univrsity s rcntly stablishd Intrnational Graduat Schools ar an attmpt to rcruit xcllnt intrnational PhD studnts for th univrsity s ky rsarch aras, and will thus strngthn Bonn s visibility as an intrnational rsarch univrsity. Intrnational Graduat Schools larning from th bst Two of Bonn s Graduat Schools wr slctd for funding undr th programm Excllnc Initiativ. Thy ar basd on intrnational bst practic xampls for training doctoral candiats. Both ar aimd at studnts who hav takn thir Bachrlor s dgr at a rcognizd univrsity at hom or abroad and who ar among th bst of thir yar. Th languag of instruction is English. Th Bonn Graduat School of Economics (BGSE) is spcially dsignd for highly qualifid studnts with a strong intrst in quantitativ conomics. Th Graduat School s cor is th intgratd rsarch-orintd Mastr s programm. Particularly promising candidats can alrady complt parts of thir doctorat whil doing this programm. Thy can thrfor finish thir PhD on to two yars arlir than normal. An intgral part of BGSE is th laboratory for xprimntal conomic rsarch, which was st up by th Bonn Nobl Priz winnr Profssor Rinhard Sltn. Bonn Univrsity is on of th top univrsitis in Grmany for conomics. It has a high rputation sinc long and I njoy th good atmosphr of doing rsarch.th offic building of BGSE is quit nar to th rivr. On can rlax a littl bit in th summr aftrnoon, drinking coff in th sunshin Xia Su is a PhD Studnt at th Bonn Graduat School of Economics (BSGE) Dalian N E Th Bonn-Cologn Graduat School of Physics and Astronomy is a joint Honors Program of graduat studis btwn th Univrsitis of Bonn and Cologn. Slctd on th th basis of a B.Sc. dgr, honors studnts will ntr an advancd study programm which lads dirctly to th PhD. Th graduat school offrs a wid spctrum of rsarch filds to th studnts, and thy profit from strong connctions with local rsarch groups in th nighbouring disciplins of biology, chmistry, and mathmatics, which add to th wid rang of PhD rsarch opportunitis univrsity bonn intrnationally connctd

5 Intrnational Studis Bonn studnts lading forward Studis at th Univrsity of Bonn ar highly intrnational. Approximatly 12% of our studnts ar from abroad so you ar vry likly to mt on of ths 4500 studnts on campus or in town. Togthr with th Bonn studnts who study abroad in on of th Univrsity s xchang programms or an intrnational scholarship programm, thy profit from Bonn s cooprations with mor than 250 partnrs in 27 Europan countris and mor than 50 partnrs ovrsas. Grman and intrnational studnts cannot only choos from numrous intrnational B.A., M.A. and PhD. Programms which ar ithr partially or fully taught in English. In doubldgr Bachlor and Mastr Programms studnts hav th opportunity to spnd part of thir studis abroad and rciv dgrs from both participating univrsitis. For 50 yars th Univrsity has built a rputation in hosting studnts from around th world in its immrsion study abroad programms. Each yar about 500 studnts participat in th smstr- or yar-long xchang and Junior Yar abroad programms or com to Bonn for a spring or summr programm focusing.g. on Grman litratur and languag, transatlantic issus, or rsarch in th Lif Scincs. Each programm offrs a uniqu mix of study- and rsarch-possibilitis, Grman larning, cultural programm, and immrsion into th univrsity s and city s lif. Th wid rang of cours offrings, an outstanding rputation in taching and rsarch, and its uniqu location mak Bonn an spcially attractiv plac to study and liv, so that many studnts dcid to stay on or rturn latr. I can not imagin a mor productiv or njoyabl way to hav spnt an undrgraduat summr than at th Univrsity of Bonn. Danil L. Jons cam from Harvard Univrsity to join th Summrschool 2007 and workd at th Lif And Mdical Scincs Cntr Bonn (LiMES) Boston N W Lif Scincs and Cultur in Bonn larning by doing In 2005, Bonn s undrgraduat summrschool in th Lif Scincs was slctd by th Grman Acadmic Exchang Srvic (DAAD) as on of tn outstanding short-trm summr programms. Excllnt studnts from th Univrsity s partnrs Harvard and Wisconsin-Madison gt th chanc to work on individual rsarch projcts in laboratoris of Bonn s Biology and Chmistry Dpartmnts and Mdical School. Thir hands-on lab xprinc is furthrmor complmntd by gtting to know Grmany outsid th classroom through th programm s cultural componnts, a combination of Grman languag and cultur classs as wll as xcursions throughout th Rhinland and Brlin. univrsity bonn intrnationally connctd

6 Th city living and larning Bonn - rlaxd xcllnc Bonn is proof that you don t nd to sacrific quality of lif to study at a top-tir intrnational univrsity. Onc Grmany s capital, this pacful city on th banks of Fathr Rhin boasts a small-town fl, th infrastructur of a major mtropolitan cntr. Th city s charms ar impossibl to miss. Locatd on th banks of th Rhin, it is th gatway to th romantic Middl Rhin Vally, a rgion dottd with castls and surroundd by th bautiful Sibngbirg, a landscap shapd by myths, sagas and fairy tals. Bonn boasts baroqu buildings and an ag-old charisma, yt rmains solidly part of th modrn world: Mor than a dozn Unitd Nations agncis and 170 intrnational organizations call it hom, as do Dutsch Tlkom (a global tlcoms and IT srvics ladr with oprations in mor than 50 countris), T-Mobil and Dutsch Post (on of th world s largst logistics companis and ownr of DHL). Nw Dlhi N, O wi l nd you a nw cop y... to s.d nn o b n d an -m ail with your addrss to i n f o - aa a@ un i- univrsity bonn intrnationally connctd [email protected] s is mployd at th Cntr for Dvlopmnt Rsarch (ZEF) Do you wish mor information? Plas fl fr to contact us! Sim pl y Dr. Saravanan Subramanian sd a pl Whn w wr looking for intrnational carr, Bonn was on among th placs w targtd as it had many intrnational organisations. Rading through th Encarta Encyclopadia my son said, This is th plac that I lov to go... lb. about us is m issi /DVD CD ng?w h.. T

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