Studienkolleg zu Berlin

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Studienkolleg zu Berlin
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Purpose: Promotion of young European leaders for their future tasks in science, economy, politics, culture and administration as well as a network for Europe
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Managing directors: Valeska Bopp-Filimonov
Consist: since 2002
Seat: Berlin
Website: www.studienkolleg-zu-berlin.de

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The Studienkolleg zu Berlin (SKB) is a joint scholarship program of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the non-profit Hertie Foundation in cooperation with the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . The college was founded in 2002 and has now produced eleven years.

The program aims to provide young European leaders with important knowledge about the goals and values ​​of Europe for their future tasks in science, business, politics, culture and administration. It offers the participants the chance to experience Europe's diversity and a unique space to pursue their own questions about Europe - beyond all subject and country boundaries and the constraints of university operations.

With this aim in mind, the preparatory college invites 30 talented students from all disciplines from all over Europe to Berlin for eleven months every year. There they continue their specialist studies and take part in the college program at the same time. Based on the college year, the college has been promoting a network for Europe for over ten years.

Program Sequence

The college program begins in September with an introductory week. It ends in July of the following year with the ceremonial handover of the certificate. During the winter and summer semesters, the students come together once a week for lecture and discussion evenings, which they can moderate and help shape. In the college rooms at Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt, there are weekly changing speakers from Germany and abroad. There are also several seminars and training courses, including a. on the topics of project management, rhetoric and presentation as well as negotiation techniques. A German course is also offered for foreign students.

The heart of the college is independent project work in international and interdisciplinary teams on current European issues. The project teams are formed during the introductory week. The choice of topics is in the hands of the participants. The teams work together independently throughout the year; During the winter semester break, they set out on research trips to other European countries. The project results will be presented to the public in the summer semester. The Studienkolleg zu Berlin publishes the results of all project work in the annual anthology "Project Europe". The aim is for the fellows to set socially effective impulses and to spread the idea of ​​the college.

organization

The Studienkolleg zu Berlin has existed since 2002. From the 2013/14 class onwards, the program management is in the hands of Valeska Bopp-Filimonov. The founding rector of the Studienkolleg zu Berlin was Jürgen Trabant , followed by the biologist and physician Ulf B. Göbel. Most recently, Dagmar Schipanski was the rector of the preparatory college.

The preparatory college in Berlin is financed by the German National Academic Foundation and the non-profit Hertie Foundation. It also receives grants from the funds of the association "Friends and Patrons of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation".

The cooperation with the partners of the preparatory college, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, is one of the guarantors for the scientific excellence of the Studienkolleg zu Berlin. Many of the lecturers present come from these two institutions.

The preparatory college in Berlin is advised by a top-class advisory board. Leading personalities from the fields of science, politics and business accompany the program, give suggestions and recommendations.

Alumni

From the ten years of the preparatory college in Berlin, 374 alumni from 26 countries (as of 07/2013) have emerged who can organize themselves in the association “Netzwerk Europa eV”. The association promotes a Europe-wide network of committed young Europeans. He helps shape the content of the annual meeting in Berlin-Schmöckwitz. In addition, it offers former colleagues space for discussion and networking across borders. This work results in study trips, conferences and participation of the alumni as speakers at conferences and seminars.

There are also plenty of networking opportunities for the fellows after the end of the fellowship year in the alumni associations of the two sponsoring foundations: in AlumniNet, the association of former scholarship holders of the German National Academic Foundation, as well as fellows & friends, the cross-foundation initiative for alumni of the non-profit Hertie Foundation and its projects. This opens the door to over 50,000 international and interdisciplinary contacts.

Project work of the preparatory college in Berlin

Some of the projects developed in the preparatory college were continued after the end of the college year and their results were published and presented elsewhere. The following projects deserve special mention:

  • Physis Stadt Tirana from the year 2008/09: The project implemented an alternative cartography of the city of Tirana, which can be found online and has also received media attention.
  • The project "Insights" from the college year 2010/2011 organized city rallies in Berlin and Łódź.
  • A video from the group “Hafenkultur im Wandel. From fishing cutter to container ship - consequences and opportunities? "

Publications by the colleagues and alumni in the context of the 10th anniversary in 2012

  • Henry Alt-Haaker: Anyone who has visions should go to Brussels ( Online ; PDF; 57 kB)
  • Lucy Duggan: Europe and I ( Online ; PDF; 37 kB)
  • Inna Iegorova: Thoughts on Ukraine ( Online ; PDF; 29 kB)
  • Jonas Marx: Europe and the question of identity ( online ; PDF; 43 kB)
  • Ilyas Saliba: One Europe of markets is not enough ( Online ; PDF; 34 kB)
  • Susanne Schwarz: Child or Career ( Online ; PDF; 43 kB)
  • Gesa Wicke: The Mafia: Europe's secret ruler? ( Online ; PDF; 41 kB)

The press about the preparatory college

Nationwide, several daily and weekly newspapers reported on the work of the preparatory college in the past. Provocative project titles in particular attract attention. The project work "Part-time job: Prostitution" received particularly large media coverage in 2010/11:

The “Europe & Me” project was documented in detail in the Focus Campus. Institutions also deal with the preparatory college. The University of Zurich presented five students who had taken part in the preparatory college. The Heinrich Böll Foundation was interested in the project work of the group “Belarus - (T) Europe? In Search of European Perspectives ”of the college year 2009/10 and interviewed the project participants.

Other projects published their results in renowned specialist journals or were presented in magazine articles. Colleagues published in IP magazine, nah & fern magazine, or were portrayed in ZEIT.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.studienkolleg-zu-berlin.de
  2. ^ Website of the association
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 11, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.studienkolleg-zu-berlin.de
  4. ^ Website of the association
  5. ↑ AlumniNet website
  6. ^ Website of fellows & friends ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / forum.ghst.de
  7. ↑ Europe and Me website
  8. ^ Project website
  9. ↑ Website of the project ( Memento of the original from October 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / topografie.pl
  10. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBSGFFs27Y
  11. ↑ Student job : prostitute. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 18, 2011, accessed August 23, 2018 .
  12. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article1893059/Prostitution-fuer-jeden-vierten-Studenten-vorbaren.html
  13. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!70921/
  14. ↑ http://www.studienkolleg-zu-berlin.de/files/Europe-and-me.pdf
  15. ↑ http://www.uzh.ch/news/articles/2009/europa-interdisziplinaer.html
  16. ↑ http://www.boell.de/weltweit/europanord Amerika/europa-nord Amerika-die-eu-und-belarus-ist-der-dialog-gescheitert- 12208.html
  17. ↑ Zoltan Ferenczi, Sarah Münch, Christoph Tometten, Natasha Wunsch: Without help for self-help, In: IP January / February 2011, pp. 68–72.
  18. ↑ Sarah Münch, Christoph Tometten, Natasha Wunsch: Ways to Empowerment and Participation. The self-organization of irregular migrants, In: nah & fern 46, p. 42.
  19. ↑ Cosima Schmitt: Tirana: Tirana long and wide . In: The time . No. 14/2010 ( online ).