Yearly Review for International Alumni 2016
Dear Alumni,
It is often hard to find the peace and time in the busy weeks of December to get in the mood for the Christmas period and the year to come. But fortunately it won’t be long before time starts to move a little more slowly at the end of the year and it is easier to find the time for the things that are really important to us. Christmas is a Christian festival. But the values behind the festival - peace and goodwill to mankind - are universal. All people and religions appreciate them. These are lasting values which are a perfect guideline for our everyday lives, including in the new year with all the opportunities and challenges it brings.
We wish you and your families a wonderful festive period and a good, healthy successful new year in 2017.
Prof. Dr Reiner Clement, Alumni Commissioner for the Office of the President
Barbara Wieners-Horst, Alumni Coordinator
University webshop online | The university has a new webshop with textiles, accessories and gifts in the H-BRS design. Make your university friends smile with a t-shirt, quality ballpoint pen, power bank or hoodie. Or simply add them to your own wish list ... The link to the shop is http://shop.h-brs.de (or click the shopping basket icon at the top of our website.
Applause for our graduates and students | Over 1100 successful academic degrees, eleven award-winning dissertations and 123 Deutschlandstipendium scholarships, there has been lots of cause for celebration at the university over the last few weeks: at the graduation party (Watch the video here), at the prize-giving for the sponsorship prizes for the best dissertations and the handover of the Deutschlandstipendium scholarships. Read more...(German only)
New English and bilingual study programmes | The university is expanding its range of internationally oriented courses with new English and bilingual study programmes:
- The M.Sc. in “Material Sciences and Sustainability Methods” started for the winter semester within the Department of Natural Sciences. The study programme teaches methodological skills in terms of material development, processing and analytics and with respect to sustainability aspects such as efficient materials, life cycle assessment, integrated balancing, resource protection and sustainable raw materials. The courses are held half each in German and English.
- Within the Department Management Sciences the winter semester also saw the start of the new English-language Master's degree programme in “Marketing”, which focuses on different technological developments and future trends in market development. The department will be starting a new English-language Bachelor’s degree programme in “International Business” in 2017.
Department of Natural Sciences: Save the date for 20-year anniversary celebrations on Friday 9 June 2017 | The “AnNa” department, has come of age and plans to celebrate its 20th birthday in style at the Rheinbach campus. Please note the date and pass it on to friends from back then. The invitations will be sent out in the new year.
Look back at Africa Conference | Around 300 participants were welcomed by Prof. Jürgen Bode, Vice President for Internationalisation to the third conference on “Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa“ (10/11 November) at the Sankt Augustin Campus. As well as the strong content, the conference offered the opportunity for professional and personal networking. Numerous guests from Africa were able to take part thanks to the sponsorship funding to the H-RBS from the "German-African University Partnership Platform for the Development of Entrepreneurs and Small/Medium Enterprises" and external sponsors. - There was no shortage of fun either: On the first evening, DJ Obo from Dusseldorf played some lively African rythms, while on 11/11, the guests experienced the start of the carnival in Bonn.
The H-BRS is now firmly established in Germany when it comes to practical teaching and research and its connections to company networks in Africa.
Institute of Visual Computing: The perception of "up" | Where is up? The Institute of Visual Computing (IVC) conducts a series of experiments with their Canadian partners on the influence of gravitation on the perception of body orientation. Read more ...
Department of Computer Sciences: European Robotics League @ H-BRS | The European Robotics League (ERL) is a new competition sponsored by the European Union. In addition to the national and international championships, these tournaments are carried out locally as a week-long competition in the three categories service, industrial and rescue. The department of computer science proudly hosted the very first competition of the industrial league. Read more ...
Open Source Cooperation with Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco | The department has extended its open source cooperation with arabic countries and hosted meetings with partners from Jordan, Morocco and Lebanon. Read more ...
Review: International symposium “Social Protection Systems – Tying the Knots” | The 2-day symposium on “Social Protection Systems – Tying the Knots” provided the floor for round about 200 practitioners, policy-makers and researchers from 58 countries on September 5-6 to exchange and discuss advances and challenges in social protection system building. You can find the documentation for the panel, paper and poster sessions here.
Successful season for BRS motor sport | At their European summer tour of races in Italy, Austria and Germany, our motor sports students brought home a host of awards to make it the most successful season in the team's history. At Formula Student Italy, the team won the Engineering Design category by an impressive 150 points and came third in Business Plan with a fantastic 73.469 points out of a maximum of 75. Other stops included Formula Student Austria and the race on the home turf of the Hockenheim Ring. Read more (German only).
More impressions of 2016
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New buildings for Rheinbach and Sankt Augustin
Laying the foundation Stone at Campus Rheinbach on 4 July
Groundbreaking ceremony at Campus Sankt Augustin on 1 April
Both buildings will be inaugurated in autumn 2017. - Alumni-Tag on 17 June (Home coming)
- Sommerfest on 21 June (Summer party)
- Weihnachts-Campus (Christmas Event) on 1 December
- Annual Report 2015 in English (PDF)
You did not receive our Alumni Christmas Card? Please send us an email with your full postal address for our database (alumni@h-brs.de).
The latest alumni newsletter (German version with more information from the departments) may be found here.