Briefings for Model UN

Participants for the Model United Nations including students of FUB and LMU visited New York and the German House on Friday April 15, 2011. 

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BBC: Germany Top for Foreign Students

BBC News Education Corespondent Sean Coughlan reports on Germany's open educational ideas and features FUB.  

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The Embassy Model in HEI

Andrea Adam Moore, Executive Director, GUA chaired a panel at AIEA in February 2011. An article in HEI quotes the panel discussion, describing, among other things, FUB's liaison office model presented by Herbert Greishop, Director, Center for International Cooperation, Freie Universitat Berlin. 

"An alternative to the internationalisation model of building bricks-and-mortar campuses around the world is establishing overseas offices or 'embassies'. This approach was described by two universities, one American and the other German, at the Association for International Education Administrators conference in San Francisco.

In an increasingly globalised world, universities are adopting ambitious internationalisation strategies to keep apace. Ohio State University and Freie Universitat Berlin are among very many institutions embracing a more global outlook.

"Diversity in the population leads to a diversity in perspective," said Andrea Adam Moore, executive director of the German University Alliance, who chaired the session in which the two universities presented their internationalisation models."

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NAFSA 2011

The 2011 NAFSA Conference held in Vancouver, Canada wrapped up in early June. German University Alliance hosted our annual luncheon at Five Sails restaurant to celebrate our long-standing partnerships in North America (United States and Canada). Please Click Here to view the Photo SlideShow.

European Career Fair

Andrea Adam Moore (left) and Sibel Vurgun, Dahlem Research School (FUB), at the European Career Fair, MIT Jan 2011

 

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