European University Viadrina
| European University Viadrina | |
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| motto | Ex oriente lux ( the light comes from the east ) |
| founding | July 1991 |
| Sponsorship | Foundation under public law |
| place |
.png){kind=small} Frankfurt (Oder)
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| state |
 Brandenburg
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| country |
 Germany
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| President | Julia von Blumenthal |
| Employee | 572 (2019) |
| including professors | 73 (2019) |
| Networks | DFH , MGU |
| Website | www.europa-uni.de |
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The European University Viadrina is a university in Frankfurt (Oder) . It offers courses in cultural studies , law and economics .
In the winter semester 2019/20, 6,020 students were enrolled at the university, of which around 73% are German and 27% are foreign students. Almost a quarter of the foreign students have Polish citizenship.
The university sees itself in the tradition of the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt (1506–1811) . It was re-established in 1991 as part of the rebuilding and restructuring of the university landscape in the New States and is based in the former government building.
The Viadrina offers a comparatively narrow canon of subjects focused on the humanities and social sciences, which does not correspond to the scope of the classic full university , but has the right to award doctorates and habilitation . In March 2008 it was decided to change the legal form of the Viadrina to a foundation university.
Mission statement and focus
The 1991 memorandum emphasizes that it has been given four specific tasks:
- It should act as a reform university. The new should primarily lie in its internationality and its interdisciplinarity.
- It is intended to contribute to the development of the region on both sides of the Oder.
- It is intended to promote German-Polish cooperation, particularly in the field of science and culture.
- It is intended to give impetus to pan-European integration.
In terms of internationality, the Viadrina focuses on Europe, especially Poland, East Central Europe and the European Union (including the neighboring regions as far as Central Asia). However, the concentration on Europe does not exclude the reference to non-European countries - the Viadrina maintains contacts with around 200 universities worldwide (for example in Russia, North and South America, South Africa or Australia). In the range of courses, this focus is expressed in the range of multilingual courses, student exchanges, international courses and language training according to European standards ( UNIcert ).
The interdisciplinarity is reflected in cross-faculty courses such as the Master of “European Studies” or the Master of “Protection of European Cultural Assets” as well as interdisciplinary courses and course regulations. In the area of research, interdisciplinarity is anchored in three research institutes of the Viadrina: in the Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics (IZE), which primarily deals with questions of justice in transformation as well as bioethical and medical ethical issues; in the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Research (FIT), in which members of all three faculties work together and which also deals with transformation phenomena in areas close to borders; and in the Heinrich von Kleist Institute , which combines literary studies and politics.
With regard to the German-Polish cooperation is first the cooperation with the partner university in Poznan (the Adam Mickiewicz University ), in the German-Polish legal education ( bachelor and master " of German and Polish Law ") and above all with the Poznan University jointly operated Collegium Polonicum in Słubice . In addition, the Viadrina maintains contacts with a large number of other Polish universities.
The establishment of a Master’s degree in Complementary Medicine - Cultural Studies - Medicine at the Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences led to controversial discussions in the Board of Trustees, ministries and the media in 2010 as to whether esoteric content should and should be linked to the name of a public university. Die Zeit wrote “Esotericists are infiltrating German universities. The difference between science and nonsense blurs ”.
Foundation university
With effect from March 1, 2008, the European University is no longer supported by the State of Brandenburg, but by a foundation under public law, established by the law establishing the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Foundation (StiftG-EUV) . The foundation's assets amounted to around 6.2 million euros in 2012 (6,195,860.35 euros). The economic plan of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) for 2012 provided for allocations from the state of Brandenburg (title 682 64) in the amount of around 25 million euros (25,192,600 euros), plus administrative income of the university of 528,000 euros, and thus a total budget of 25,720,600 euros.
history
The university was founded in July 1991 and started its first academic year in October 1992. The founding rector of the university was Knut Ipsen (1991–1993). Rector Hans Weiler followed from 1993 to 1999 until President Gesine Schwan took over the office in 1999 .
In 2004, the university gained additional prominence through the nomination of its President Gesine Schwan as a candidate for the office of Federal President by the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .
In the summer semester 2006, the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the university were celebrated at the Viadrina, with reference to the university, the Alma Mater Viadrina , which closed in 1811 , and at the same time the 15th birthday of the university, which was founded in 1991, was celebrated.
A university-like device was from 1930 to 1932, the Pedagogical Academy Frankfurt (Oder) under Otto Haase , after a short closure to save money from 1933 to the war-related adjustment as College of Teacher Education by the Nazi state under Albrecht Burchard and then Oswald Muris continue to operate was .
Faculties and courses
Faculty of Cultural Studies
With around 2000 students, the faculty is the largest faculty at the Viadrina. Your range of courses includes:
Undergraduate courses (Bachelor of Arts):
- Cultural studies
- Intercultural German Studies
- Law and Politics (interdisciplinary course with the Faculty of Law)
The consecutive master’s courses (Master of Arts):
- European cultural history
- Language - media - society
- Literary studies: aesthetics - literature - philosophy
- Sociocultural Studies
- Culture and history of Central and Eastern Europe
- European Studies (interdisciplinary course of all three faculties)
Further education master’s courses (Master of Arts):
- Protection of European cultural assets
- Cultural management and cultural tourism
Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences
The Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences in the Faculty of Cultural Studies (IntraG) was an institute founded in 2007 at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt / Oder under the direction of Harald Walach . It did not train medical professionals. The IntraG offered a master's degree in “Cultural Studies - Complementary Medicine” (KWKM), which was accredited in 2008 and started operations in 2009. Until 2012 the course was called “Complementary Medicine - Cultural Studies - Medicine” (KMKH). The course ends with the academic degree of a Master of Arts . The endowed professorship was temporarily financed by the company Biologische Heilmittel Heel GmbH, one of the financially strongest representatives of the homeopathic pharmaceutical industry.
The contents can be viewed in the study regulations.
In 2015, the fee-based advanced training course in cultural studies and complementary medicine was discontinued, in this context the university also closed the institute for transcultural health sciences. According to the university's press office, this was done against the background "that the demand from medically qualified applicants was not enough to be able to offer this cultural studies degree program at a cost-covering and quality-assured basis".
Criticism of the scientific qualification of the IntraG
A public debate about the IntraG institute took place, for example, through a master’s thesis from 2012 that deals with the so-called Kozyrew mirror , through which clairvoyance or contact with extraterrestrials and the deceased should be possible. An author in the Süddeutsche Zeitung criticizes the work as a “derailment of academic quality standards”.
In June 2012, the University Structure Commission of the State of Brandenburg “strongly recommended that the future of the MA program 'Cultural Studies - Complementary Medicine' be abandoned”. Furthermore, the continuation of the institute for transcultural health sciences was not supported either as an in-institute or as an affiliated institute. Die Welt reported in November 2012 that the president of the university was trying to "curb this dispute with a muzzle for his professors". According to a circular from June of the same year, all press inquiries had to be coordinated with the university management before answering.
In its final report submitted on June 8, 2012, the University Structure Commission of the State of Brandenburg criticized the Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences at the European University Viadrina. The report says:
“The Commission has far-reaching structural concerns about the Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences at the EUV. The institute has only limited references to the university's specialist areas. At the same time, there is a qualitative problem in the way it is set up and the conception of the advanced MA course 'Cultural Studies - Complementary Medicine' offered by the institute.
A reflection on the humanities at the margins of scientific medicine, as formulated in the aims of the institute, is fundamentally desirable. In the medical faculties of German universities, too, there are (undoubtedly not to the desired extent) reflections on medical action and decision-making. However, it appears extremely doubtful that this reflection can take place in an appropriate manner within the framework of the institute. Because dealing with complementary medicine requires a close connection with the scientific side, medicine, since it cannot be dealt with scientifically and practically as a cultural-scientific topic alone. Complementarity necessarily requires the interaction of two equally important components. However, the personnel requirements for this are not given at the EUV.
On the scientific medicine side, the staffing of the course takes place almost exclusively through lecturers, mostly from private practices. A scientific background of the range of university medicine cannot be sufficiently established. The target group of doctors, pharmacists and psychotherapists, to whom the institute's 'Complementary Medicine' courses are particularly aimed, are looked after by a teaching staff who mostly lack medical knowledge. This is especially true for research on which teaching should be based.
Overall, from the point of view of the commission, the personnel and material resources of the institute that are necessary for research that is adequate to the topic within the university framework are not discernible. The value of the “internship-based research purpose” formulated by the institute is also not revealed.
With a view to the overall profile of the EUV, it finally seems appropriate to state that there is no evidence of an internationalization of the MA program. In particular, there is also no visible international connection to scientific medicine.
The higher education structure commission accordingly strongly recommends that the EUV waive the offer of the MA course 'Cultural Studies - Complementary Medicine' in the future. A continuation of the institute for transcultural health sciences is not to be advocated either as an in-institute or as an affiliated institute as before. At most, it seems justifiable to continue to operate the institute privately outside the university. "
Scientific cooperation of the IntraG
In February 2013 the Viadrina decided to disregard the recommendation of the university structure commission and to continue the institute on condition that a cooperation with a medical faculty is entered into within the next two years. In July 2015 the institute announced the cooperation with the Medical University of Poznan .
Law Faculty
Almost 1,800 students were enrolled at the Law Faculty for the 2019/2020 winter semester. The Faculty of Law offers the law course (First Legal Examination / LL.B.) As well as the following Master’s courses:
- Mediation and Conflict Management (LL.M. or MA)
- Master of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (LL.M.)
- Master's Program "Human Rights & Genocide Studies" (MA)
- Magister legum course (LL.M.)
- European business law
- European Studies
- Business Law (postgraduate course)
Another specialty is the German-Polish legal education , the Bachelor and Master of German and Polish Law, which Viadrina offers together with Adam Mickiewicz University .
The Institute for Conflict Management, the Frankfurt Institute for European Union Law and the Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics are also located at the Faculty of Law.
The alumni of the Master’s course in Mediation and Conflict Management are supported by the Association for the Promotion of Science and Practice in Mediation e. V. based in Berlin .
Professors
Professorships in the summer semester 2016
| Civil Law | Criminal law | Public law | Polish law | Unscheduled professorships |
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| Stephan Breidenbach | Gudrun Hochmayr | Stefan Haack | Bartosz Makowicz | Andreas Graeber |
| Christoph Brömmelmeyer | Jan C. Joerden | Ulrich Häde | Maciej Małolepszy | Jan Hecker |
| Kaspar Frey | Uwe Scheffler | Ines Härtel | Arkadiusz Wudarsky | Carmen Thiele |
| Ulla Gläßer | Gerhard Wolf | Wolff Heintschel from Heinegg | ||
| Oliver Knöfel | Christian Becker | Carsten Nowak | ||
| Eva Kocher | Matthias Pechstein |
Faculty of Business and Economics
In the 2019/2020 winter semester, just under 1,800 students were enrolled at the Faculty of Business and Economics, as was the case at the Faculty of Law. The courses offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics include the following courses:
- International Business Administration (Bachelor of Science, B.Sc.)
- Economics and Law (B.Sc.)
- Law and Economics ( Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.))
- International Business Administration (B.Sc./Master of Science, M.Sc.)
- European Studies (double master’s program in cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , Istanbul Bilgi University and the Franco-German University )
The European University Viadrina is one of the first universities in Germany to offer courses in the new research field of e-sports .
Research institutes
- German-Polish Research Institute (DPFI)
- Frankfurt Institute for the Law of the European Union
- Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies (FIT)
- Heinrich von Kleist Institute for Literature and Politics
- Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences
- Institute for Conflict Management
- Interdisciplinary center for ethics
- Institute for Central and East European Taxation (I CEE TAX)
- Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES)
- Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies (ZIP)
Locations
Most of the Viadrina's buildings and dormitories are located in the center of the city, right on the river and near the border bridge. In addition to the five student residences in the city itself, Viadrina students have the option of moving into residences in the neighboring Polish town of Słubice. The student residences in Frankfurt / Oder are directly connected to the university by the tram system.
The university library, seminar rooms as well as the offices of the president, many chairs and large parts of the university administration are located in the more than one hundred year old former government building in the city center.
The university library was built like a terrace in the inner courtyard of the main building. The library's conventional media holdings include around 523,000 volumes and almost 1,200 current journals. It also offers 408 user workstations. The library has the status of a European Documentation Center and is a member of the Cooperative Library Association Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) .
The Gräfin-Dönhoff building, named after Marion Gräfin Dönhoff , is a new building. The majority of the lecture halls and seminar rooms as well as the main cafeteria are located here.
In the Auditorium Maximum there are a. the student secretariat, several seminar rooms, chairs, the international office of the university, administrative units and the largest lecture hall of the university (space for 600 students).
In the western part of the city there is a nearby campus (language center) in the former barracks on August-Bebel-Straße. Most of the university's language courses take place here.
Viadrina Prize
Every year the university awards the Viadrina Prize to people who have made a contribution to German-Polish understanding. Previous winners include a. Karl Dedecius , Adam Michnik , Günter Grass , Janusz Reiter , Markus Meckel , Włodzimierz Borodziej , Rudolf von Thadden , Adam Krzemiński , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Krzysztof Penderecki and Hans-Dietrich Genscher .
University presidents
- Knut Ipsen (1991-1993)
- Hans Weiler (1993–1999)
- Gesine Schwan (1999-2008)
- Gunter Pleuger (2008-2014)
- Alexander Wöll (2014-2017)
- Stephan Kudert (executive; January - September 2018)
- Julia von Blumenthal (since 2018)
Student Organizations
The student organizations and initiatives of the Viadrina had their headquarters since June 29, 2006 in the student box , or just box for short . As a result of the renovation of the lodge house, the student mile project was created in 2011, in which the AStA of the Viadrina rents abandoned buildings in the Große Scharrnstraße area and makes them usable for the initiatives.
Student Initiatives
In 2019 there were 33 student initiatives at the European University Viadrina.
- Graduate network Viadrin @ lumni
- Amnesty International University Group Frankfurt (Oder)
- ArbeiterKind.de
- Campus Office - advice on labor and social law from students for students
- ELSA - European Law Students' Association
- GFPS - Community for Student Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe
- Hope Frankfurt (Oder) - house church
- Initiative German Lessons for Asylum Seekers (IDA)
- Institute for Applied History
- Interstudis - support for guest students
- Young Union University Group
- Juso University Group
- Catholic university pastoral care
- Artifice - network for cultural projects
- Leo Club Lebuser Land
- Liberal Campus (LiCa)
- the left SDS Viadrina
- Ostblick e. V. - Association of students, doctoral candidates and alumni of the four Brandenburg universities with courses related to Eastern Europe
- Ecumenical student work
- Rotaract Club Frankfurt (Oder) - Słubice
- Student Mile e. V. - House for student initiatives
- Unicef University Group
- Unithea theater festival
- Venture Across - Network for Entrepreneurship
- association house fforst
- Viadrina Consulting Group e. V. (VCG)
- ViaFunk - university radio
- ViaMUN - UN and MUN university group
- Viaphoniker - University Orchestra
- Viasion Medien & Kunst - student TV and film productions
- Vietnamese Association Viadrina (VAV)
- Vivadrina - student magazine
- ZeitBankCzasu - exchange ring
Party-affiliated student organizations (partly not sure to what extent the mentioned organizations are only oriented towards the parties or at least officially belong):
- LiCa (Liberal Campus) - Liberal university group
- Juso university group
- Green university group (close to green, but not alliance green)
- RCDS (started under the name: 2004/05 Viadrina X, 2005/06 Viadrina Go !, 2006/07 teAM Future)
- Die Linke.SDS -Viadrina
Student associations:
- Corps Silesia Breslau in the KSCV
Organs of the composed student body
There are several democratic student bodies at the European University Viadrina.
- General Student Committee - AStA
- Student parliament
- Student council law
- Student council economics
- Student Council for Cultural Studies
- Language Advisory Board
- Dormitory Council Słubice ( Polish Rada Mieszkańców Osiedla Studenckiego w Słubicach )
References
See also
literature
- European University Viadrina Frankfurt / Oder (Ed.): Memorandum of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt / Oder. Frankfurt / Oder 1993
- Daniel Becker u. a. (Ed.): Matter of opinion: Alternative Festschrift: 18 semesters of student life at the European University Viadrina. Frankfurt (Oder) 2001.
- Ulrich Knefelkamp (Ed.): “Blossom Dreams” and “Cloud Cuckoo Home” in “Timbuktu” - 10 years of the European University Viadrina . scrîpvaz, Berlin 2001
- Richard Pyritz, Matthias Schütt (Ed.): The Viadrina. A university as a bridge between Germany and Poland. European University Viadrina, bebra, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937233-57-4 .
Web links
- Website of the European University Viadrina
- Website of the European University Viadrina Foundation
- Website from the AStA of the Viadrina
Individual evidence
- ↑ President Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal. In: University website. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Facts and Figures. In: University website. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Network. List of universities in the DFH network. In: www.dfh-ufa.org. Franco-German University, accessed on October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Students by subject, degree goal, gender and nationality. European University Viadrina, November 12, 2019, accessed June 18, 2020 .
- ^ Sebastian Herrmann: Viadrina: Complementary Medicine. More and more weirdos. ( Memento from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche.de, August 31, 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
- ↑ Bernd Kramer: Pseudosciences - The academic spirit . Zeit Online , May 31, 2011
- ↑ Law on the establishment of the “Foundation European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)” (StiftG-EUV). Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Answer of the state government to the minor question no. 2915 by the parliamentarian Marion Vogdt parliamentary group of the FDP Landtag printed matter 5/7371 Interest income from the capital of the state foundations. (PDF; 238 kB) In: vogdt-mdl.de. July 10, 2013, p. 4 , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Budget 2012 - EP 06a - supplement - Ministry for Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg . Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Annette Bauer: The Viadrina celebrates its 500th and 15th birthday! In: UNIon . No. 49 . European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) April 2006, p. 2 ( europa-uni.de ( memento of August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1.8 MB ]).
- ↑ Cultural Studies - Bachelor courses. European University Viadrina, accessed June 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Cultural Studies - Masters Courses. European University Viadrina, accessed June 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Master's program in Cultural Studies - Complementary Medicine ( Memento from July 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) European University Viadrina.
- ↑ Basic information on the KWKM degree course ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Study regulations for the Master's degree course, at intrag.info
- ↑ Michaela Grün, press spokeswoman for the European University Viadrina: E-mail response to a request from the Cologne science journalist Claudia Ruby . June 13, 2019.
- ↑ Michaela Grün, press spokeswoman for the European University Viadrina: E-mail response to a request from the Cologne science journalist Claudia Ruby . June 13, 2019.
- ↑ Clairvoyance in master's thesis "proven" . Der Standard, May 8, 2012
- ↑ P. Conrad: The Konzyrew mirror in practice. ( Memento from May 10, 2012 on WebCite ) Master's thesis, Frankfurt / Oder: 2012, p. 11
- ↑ Esoteric at the Uni Viadrina - Looked too deep into the tube . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 10, 12
- ↑ Final report of the University Structure Commission of the State of Brandenburg (PDF; 4.0 MB), presented to the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg on June 8, 2012
- ↑ Hocus-pocus at the university . In: Welt am Sonntag , November 4, 2012
- ^ Final report of the University Structure Commission of the State of Brandenburg from June 8, 2012. ( Memento from July 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) mwfk.brandenburg.de, p. 196 ff.
- ↑ The neverending story with the Kozyrev mirror - health check. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ^ Para sciences as a subject - The Magic School on the Oder ( Memento from March 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), TAZ from March 14, 2013
- ↑ Cooperation with medical university entered into, July 9, 2015, KWKM: Cooperation with medical university entered into ( memento from July 15, 2015 in the Internet archive ) on intrag.info
- ↑ The law degree in detail. In: Website of the Law Faculty of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). October 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 .
- ^ Count Stefan Finck von Finckenstein: The Viadrina and the Mediator as an organ of legal peace. (PDF) In: Website of the Law Faculty of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). October 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .
- ↑ LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In: Website of the Law Faculty of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). October 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Master of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - LLM. In: Website of the Law Faculty of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). October 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Magister legum course (LL.M.). In: Website of the Law Faculty of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder). October 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 .
- ^ Association for the Promotion of Science and Practice in Mediation e. V. In: Website of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Practice in Mediation e. V. October 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Faculty of Business and Economics - courses of study. European University Viadrina, accessed on June 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Behailu Shiferaw Benti: E-Sports: Economics & Management • Faculty of Business Administration and Economics • European University Viadrina. Accessed December 2, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.europa-uni.de/de/forschung/institut/institut_fit/index.html
- ↑ https://www.europa-uni.de/de/forschung/institut/institut_ceetax/index.html
- ↑ Student initiatives • European University Viadrina / EUV. In: europa-uni.de. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Student committees • European University Viadrina / EUV. In: europa-uni.de. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
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