German-Kazakh University
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| founding | 1999 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Almaty, ul.Pushkina 111/113 |
| country | Kazakhstan |
| President and Rector in personal union | László Ungvári |
| Students | 720 (WS 2019/2020) |
| Website | www.dku.kz |
The German-Kazakh University ( DKU ; Russian Казахстанско-Немецкий университет , Kazakh Қазақстан-Неміс Университеті ) in the Kazakh city of Almaty is a private university with about 720 students enrolled in winter semester 2019/20. The sponsor is the “German-Kazakh Cooperation in Training” fund .
history
The university was founded on a private initiative with the aim of training specialists based on the German model in 1999. The university is supported by a "social fund" (comparable to an eV according to German legal opinion) on a non-profit basis. Organization). In addition to the Vice-Rector Olga Moskowtschenko, members of the fund are members of the German partner universities Hans-Christian Brauweiler , Otto Hammer and Laszlo Ungvari. The fund also has a board of directors and a supervisory board. The committees are made up of other representatives from universities, business, administration and politics.
In 2004 the DKU received a special permit from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan in order to be able to teach in part according to the German curriculum . In the 2007/2008 academic year, courses based on German standards were introduced. Very good students can acquire a double degree in cooperation with one of eleven German universities. There are nine bachelor's and six master's programs, e.g. Sometimes also as evening or distance learning. Training focuses include a. International relations , industrial engineering with a focus on traffic logistics , controlling as well as water and environmental management .
The DKU is funded by the German Foreign Office for the period 2007–2020 through a project as part of the “Export of Study Programs” program. The project sponsor from 2007 to December 31, 2014 was the International University Institute Zittau, which was an independent university institution of the Free State of Saxony until 2012 and was incorporated into the University of Excellence TU Dresden on January 1, 2013 through the University Freedom Act passed in September 2012.
Project Manager of the DAAD DKU project 2010-2013 was Hans-Christian Brauweiler , rector of AKAD Hochschule Leipzig (state. Recognized), the winter semester 2013/2014 a chair at the Zwickau University (WHZ) to the chair of Business Administration , in particular Corporate accounting and internal auditing followed.
The Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (WHZ) under the responsibility of Heinz-Peter Höller has been the project sponsor since January 1, 2015.
From May 2007 to October 2015, the German lawyer Johann Wilhelm Gerlach , who was previously President of the Free University of Berlin, was rector and president of the university. The predecessor in office was Bodo Lochmann . At the beginning of the 2014/2015 academic year, the positions of Rector and President were no longer occupied in personal union. From September 1, 2014, the former Vice-Rector Olga Moskowtschenko was Rector. Markus Kaiser was President from October 1, 2015. Since January 1, 2019, the long-standing President of the Technical University of Wildau, László Ungvári, has been the president and since April 8, 2019 also the rector of the university in personal union.
On September 3, 2008, a "Government Agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on further cooperation in the development of the German-Kazakh University in Almaty" was concluded in Astana. This confirms and defines mutual support from a political, financial and academic point of view. This was preceded by a "joint declaration on further cooperation in the development of the German-Kazakh University between the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan" on February 1, 2007 in Berlin.
At the beginning of the academic year 2009/2010, the DKU also had the joint former embassy / consulate rooms of the diplomatic missions of the Federal Republic of Germany , France and the United Kingdom at ul. Furmanova / ul. Kurmangasi rented.
The tuition fees amount from the academic year 2019/2020 per year in a bachelor's degree program 850,000 tenge , in a Master's program 900,000 tenge. The second higher education costs 100,000 tenge per semester for the entire study period of two and a half years. The DKU has a scholarship program which in many cases can reduce tuition fees by up to 100%. In addition, there are living grants for financing accommodation in Almaty for men and women who live further away from Almaty.
Classes at the German-Kazakh University are held in Russian and English . The German language is taught at the university. From the third year of study onwards, lessons are also in German - u. a. through the use of German guest lecturers from the partner universities. The DKU has developed a special multilingual concept.
Faculties & courses
The German-Kazakh University consists of four faculties:
- Engineering faculty (subjects: information technology / telematics , building and infrastructure technology, energy and environmental technology)
- Faculty of industrial engineering (subjects: business informatics , traffic logistics , environmental management and technology)
- Faculty of Social Sciences (subjects: international relations, political science , master's degree in regional studies: Central Asia )
- Faculty of Business and Economics (subjects: finance , marketing , corporate management, international corporate management)
There is also an independent language center for language didactics and technical language training (German, English, Kazakh).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ whed.net
- ↑ a b management (website of the DKU). Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ de.dku.idea-sketch.com ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Via the university (DKU website). Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ daad.de ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ihi-zittau.de ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ daad.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ fh-zwickau.de
- ↑ Julia Boxler: Fresh sociological dynamics - DKU under new direction. (No longer available online.) In: Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . March 25, 2016, archived from the original on November 17, 2016 ; accessed on November 16, 2016 .
- ↑ daad.de ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
