International Student Week in Ilmenau

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The International Student Week in Ilmenau ( International Student Week in Ilmenau ) (ISWI) is the largest international student festival in Germany, which has been taking place every two years since 1993 in the vicinity of the Technical University of Ilmenau and is organized by the Solidarity World Ilmenau eV initiative , which is also abbreviated to ISWI , is organized.

International Student Week

As part of the festival, between 300 and 400 young people from different countries work in themed workshops . Numerous lectures will take place in parallel. The most famous speakers so far include Robert Jungk , Joseph Weizenbaum , former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Konrad Zuse .

The ISWI is accompanied by numerous cultural events, such as concerts. In addition to the ISWI eV, various initiatives in the vicinity of the TU Ilmenau play a key role.

The reporting is provided by student media such as the Research Association for Electronic Media eV with its student television iSTUFF with the ISWISION format and radio hsf . The student radio, which has been accompanying the ISWI meetings with a 24-hour VHF program since 1993 , is the official ISWIradio. Both media came together for the first time in 2007 to broadcast jointly via DVB-T and thus bring the ISWI closer to the Ilmenau and the surrounding area.

List of events

motto Patron Attendees
May 6-22, 1993 "Become friends - unite the world" Hans-Dietrich Genscher 290
May 28 - June 5, 1995 "Get up and live - now" Bernhard Vogel 250
May 3-10, 1997 "Let's build our future" Dagmar Schipanski 420
May 8-16, 1999 "Celebrating Diversity" Federico Mayor 350
May 18-27, 2001 "Just Future" Edelgard Bulmahn 320
May 9-18, 2003 "Because the people matter" Boutros Boutros-Ghali 300
May 20-29, 2005 "One world - one vision" Jody Williams 334
June 1-10, 2007 "Time to think" Gesine Swan 354
May 8-17, 2009 "Right now!" Hina Jilani 370
May 13-22, 2011 "Crossing borders" Stéphane Hessel 370
May 31 - June 9, 2013 "Moving YOUth" José Antonio Abreu , Vandana Shiva 384
May 29 - June 7, 2015 "Dare to care" Jakob von Uexküll 382
May 12-21, 2017 "Global Justice - A Fair (y) Tale?" Kumi Naidoo 341
May 17-26, 2019 "Changes and Choices - Good by (e) Tradition?" Waris Dirie , Rob Hopkins 336

Solidarity World Ilmenau eV initiative

Solidarity World Ilmenau initiative
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founding 7th December 1992
Seat Ilmenau
main emphasis Peace, international understanding, international sentiment and tolerance
Chair Erika Uscategui (1st board member), Niklas Loos (2nd board member), Nicolas Wolz (chief financial officer)
Members 47 active, 45 dormant, 5 sustaining members
Website iswi.org

The Solidarity World Ilmenau eV initiative (ISWI) says it advocates "peace, international understanding and international attitudes and tolerance" and is a member of the SOrCE (Students Organizing Conventions Everywhere) network.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Press release of the Thuringian State Media Authority ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tlm.de
  2. ISWI 2015
  3. ISWI 2017
  4. ISWI 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  5. http://www.iswi.org/
  6. Sorce - Students Organizing Conventions Everywhere. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 53 "  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 59.2"  E