Europaeum
The Europaeum is the east-west center of the University of Regensburg . It was founded as a central institution in November 2000 and is a consistent response to the founding mandate of the University of Regensburg, namely to be a bridge between Eastern and Western Europe.
tasks
The main tasks of the Europaeum include, on the one hand, the cross-faculty coordination of all activities on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in teaching and research at the University of Regensburg and, on the other hand, generally promoting the dialogue between Eastern and Western Europe within and outside the university. Specifically, the Europaeum advises and informs students, teachers and researchers about Europe-related project tenders, study and research grants, research activities and current events at the university. It also initiates numerous projects and programs that contribute to the promotion of dialogue between Eastern and Western Europe. Due to its numerous contacts to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Europaeum is increasingly developing into a hub between East and West. This is the purpose of the international and interdisciplinary master’s course “East-West Studies” at the Europaeum, which invites students from East and West to examine and compare their respective cultures from different professional perspectives.
Important programs
Master's degree "East-West Studies"
Due to the growing together of East and West within Europe - especially after the eastward expansion of the European Union in 2004 and 2007 - the dialogue of cultures requires special skills and qualifications that can hardly be imparted within a single scientific discipline. Only the knowledge of several specialist areas and networked thinking and acting make it possible to properly assess the complex relationships between Eastern and Western cultures and societies.
The East-West Studies master’s course takes these requirements into account. The focus is on East-West relations within Europe.
Regional tandems
A cultural tandem always takes place between students from two universities from different countries. Students from all disciplines can take part. A tandem unit consists of two parts: the visit and the return visit. Within a tandem, the students have the task of doing research with their tandem partners on topics related to cultural studies that they have agreed on beforehand. When doing this research on site, abroad, the tandem partners spend many hours a day collecting material and evaluating it together. Countless contacts across borders are made. The topics are as diverse as the respective cities and countries: They range from religious life, ecology and corporate culture to questions about the health and education system to lifestyle and forms of cultural life. Visiting kindergartens, schools, retirement homes and water management offices are just as much part of the program as talking to clergy, managers or film directors. The decisive factor is the foreign perspective from which the respective cultures can be compared. The students are in constant direct contact with the tandem partner, the people and the everyday culture of the country they are visiting. This deep immersion in the other society does not occur with the same intensity during language courses or tourist stays. All students who have so far participated in regional studies tandems with universities in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine enthusiastically underline the experience they have gained with other countries. Most of the participants are still in personal contact with their foreign tandem partners after years. A considerable number of these students have decided to study at the respective foreign partner university for several months after taking part in a regional tandem.
The Secondos program
Since the winter semester 2009/10, the Europaeum has been offering the Secondos program for students with a biographical or otherwise close connection to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. " Secondo " is a term used in Switzerland and describes the descendants of immigrants in the second or subsequent generation. The most important components of the Secondos program are attending language courses in the native language at the University of Regensburg and a one or two semester stay abroad at a partner university in the home country.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/LeitbildEV.pdf
- ↑ http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Universitaet/Portrait/unir2000.htm
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2010 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.
- ↑ http://www.osteuropa-netzwerk.net/oenetzwerk/Browse?partner=_755&order=partner.name ( 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.
