UWC Robert Bosch College

UWC Robert Bosch College
Charterhouse Freiburg with UWC Robert Bosch College
type of school	United World Colleges
founding	2012
place	Freiburg in Breisgau
country	Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	47 ° 59 '40 "  N , 7 ° 52' 58"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '40 "  N , 7 ° 52' 58"  E
student	initially 104, from 2015 200 between the ages of 16 and 19
Teachers	21st
management	Laurence Nodder
Website	www.uwcrobertboschcollege.de

The UWC Robert Bosch College is one of the 18 United World Colleges . It was named after the German inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Robert Bosch . At college, the pursuit of peace, conscious interaction with nature and international understanding should not remain just abstract concepts, but should be experienced in everyday life. In addition, 200 students from over 93 countries and all social classes with their respective cultural, religious and political attitudes live, live and learn together in a village-like community. All students are selected by the independent UWC National Committees solely on the basis of aptitude and ability. Scholarships ensure that parents' income is irrelevant when they are awarded. The two years at college are concluded with the International Baccalaureate , an internationally recognized university entrance qualification.

The college

The college is a joint project of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the German Foundation UWC. It is largely supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg, B. Braun Melsungen and the city of Freiburg.

On the occasion of Robert Bosch's 150th birthday, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Robert Bosch GmbH invested around 44 million euros in setting up the college. It is the largest single project of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The UWC Robert Bosch College was created through the renovation and expansion of the former Freiburg Charterhouse . The listed baroque complex was extensively renovated for the school operation and a glass auditorium with cafeteria and kitchen was added. In order to preserve the historical substance of the Kartaus, the planners of the Freiburg office Hotz + Architekten worked in close consultation with the preservation of monuments of the Freiburg regional council.

In addition to the Kartaus, a residential village with eight student houses and four teachers' houses was built according to plans by the Cologne architecture firm Peter Kulka . Together with the Kartaus and the other existing buildings, they form an ensemble of old and new. Four students from different countries live together in one room - a typical UWC feature. The new buildings correspond to the Freiburg standard for energy-efficient construction, and the historic buildings have also been adapted to energy-efficiency. A block-type thermal power station and a photovoltaic system supply the residential village with heat and electricity, in keeping with the college's focus on environmental awareness and sustainability.

Academic orientation

Teaching is in English according to the curriculum of the International Baccalaureate Organization in Geneva. Sport, art and music are an integral part of the offer. This also applies to "Community Services". Through these services, students are encouraged to become involved in their school, the surrounding community and their environment. At the end of the two years there is a final examination, which is centrally accepted and assessed worldwide. The school will also focus on sustainability and environmental technologies, enabling students to actively address environmental problems in their community.

After graduating Graduates can apply, with those around one of Shelby Davis Scholarship Bachelor programs in prime US universities such as Princeton University , Brown University , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Harvard University , Dartmouth College and Middlebury College supports become.

Student body

The 100 students of the first year came from 70 nations, specifically 12 from Africa, 14 from Asia, 4 from North and 11 from South America, 25 from Germany and 24 from the rest of Europe, two from the Pacific island groups and eight the Middle East.

In the period 2018–2019, the 200 students came from 104 nations, including those who were represented in a UWC for the first time, such as from the Marshall Islands and Kyrgyzstan.

Namesake

Robert Bosch

International understanding was a fundamental concern for Robert Bosch. Social responsibility is a central motivation and trust in common sense is one of his own recipes for success. He shared many of these convictions with Kurt Hahn , the reform pedagogue and spiritual father of the UWC movement, with whom he had a special connection. Kurt Hahn and Robert Bosch met towards the end of the First World War. Robert Bosch visited his friend again and again. So he drove to Salem at the beginning of the thirties to see “everything was right”, since Hahn, as a Jew, was under increasing pressure from the National Socialists. On his last trip abroad, Bosch, who is increasingly elderly and reluctant to travel, visited his like-minded fellow who had meanwhile emigrated in Scotland.

Web links

Commons : UWC Robert Bosch College  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• UWC Robert Bosch College website
• UWC Robert Bosch College at the Robert Bosch Foundation ( Memento from May 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Bosch Stiftung (ed.): Robert Bosch Stiftung Magazin . tape 9 , no. 17 . Stuttgart September 2014 ( bosch-stiftung.de [PDF; accessed on September 27, 2014]).
2. ^ ^{A b} Sarah Wagner: 150 years of Robert Bosch: A school for a birthday. In: FOCUS-online. September 23, 2011, accessed September 27, 2014 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Max Hägler: United World College in Freiburg The anti-elite school. sueddeutsche.de, September 22, 2014, accessed on September 27, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Simone Höhl: The whole world in small format. (PDF) Young people from all corners of the earth visit the German United World College / Grand opening on Robert Bosch's birthday. (No longer available online.) In: BZ special supplement: The United World College. Badische Zeitung, September 24, 2014, p. 3 , archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 . 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.  
5. ↑ school. (No longer available online.) UWC Robert Bosch College, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 . 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.  
6. ^ UWC Robert Bosch College: The first United World College (UWC) in Germany. Robert Bosch Stiftung, archived from the original on May 7, 2011 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Simone Höhl: With dust, sweat and tears. (PDF) The construction work in the Kartaus was extensive, sometimes tricky and associated with one or two surprises. (No longer available online.) In: BZ special supplement: The United World College. Badische Zeitung, September 24, 2014, p. 6 , archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 . 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.  
8. ^ Catrin Boldebuck: United World College: The best students in the world learn in Freiburg. stern.de, September 25, 2014, accessed on September 27, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Simone Höhl: 400 guests celebrate the opening of the United World College. In: Badische Zeitung. September 24, 2014, accessed September 27, 2014 . 
10. ^ Davis UWC Scholars Program. Retrieved September 27, 2014 . 
11. ^ Patron saint Robert Bosch. (No longer available online.) UWC Robert Bosch College, archived from the original on October 8, 2014 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 . 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.  
12. ↑ Catrin Boldebuck: Christof Bosch in an interview: "The students carry this spirit into the world". stern.de, September 25, 2014, accessed on September 27, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Simone Höhl: A home game for the UWC idea. (PDF) With its United World Colleges, a global education movement wants to ensure more tolerance and social responsibility in the world. (No longer available online.) In: BZ special supplement: The United World College. Badische Zeitung, September 24, 2014, p. 9 , archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 . 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.