Welcome
to Eberhard Karls Universität!
Tübingen/South
Africa is a cultural and language program for South African students
initiated by the eastern Seaboard Association of Tertiary Institutions
and the University of Tübingen, aiming to expose students to
German culture and to bring about closer ties and understanding
between the two countries. Students spend a month in Tübingen
in a program designed to provide a broad spectrum of knowledge in
a wide variety of subjects, from language to history to economics,
punctuated by a number of leisure activities, which makes for an
exciting month of multi-faceted learning.
Tübingen-South
Africa Program 2005
Reports
and Photos of the 2005 program:
[Welcome
Day]; [Introduction
and city tour];
[Reception];
[DaimlerChrysler headquarters]
[Tübingen
is...]; [Ode
to My Tübingen by Diane Grace King]
[More
photos and reports]
[Film
of the reception at the university 28 MB]
Message
to the Participants
Welcome in Tübingen! Eberhard Karls Universität
Tübingen is proud to present its "Summer Program"
for South African Students to you for the sixth time in January
2005. With the assistance of esATI, the Eastern Seabord Association
of Tertiary Institutions, we have been able to offer a highly successful
program to students from the partner provinces of Baden-Württemberg
in 2000 and 2001, while the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
provided stipends for one fifth of the participants. In 2002, all
of the participants were DAAD grantees. From 2003 on we went back
to the original format, and this year, for the first time, DaimlerChrysler
South Africa has generously agreed to cosponsor our program by providing
travel grants to all participants, and sending two of their working
students– we therefore are having a record attendance of 23.
Among the many
South African activities of Eberhard Karls Universität this
is certainly the most ambitious one. Close to one hundred students
from Universities and Technikons in South Africa have benefited
from our program, and we have been able to reconvene the former
participants in two memorable alumni meetings at the Western Cape
in 2003 and 2004. I am confident that you will enjoy and profit
from "Tübingen 2005" just as much as your predecessors.
Our enthusiastic and experienced team has put together another exciting
schedule for you. You will find that things are quite different
here in Germany, and that these differences do not only apply to
the climate and the food! I wish you all a very successful program
here in Tübingen, and I hope that we all will see each other
again when we are organizing another alumni meeting in your country.
With my best wishes,
Axel Markert
Director,
International Relations
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