Two projects awarded the "Prize for Internationalisation"

"Every two years, we present the Internationalisation Award to members of the university who have made a special contribution to internationalisation through innovative projects," explains Professor Beate Hampe, Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Erfurt. The award is an important driver of innovation, designed to encourage, support, and raise the profile of committed individuals in the field of international affairs. Without exception, the award-winning projects of recent years have had a lasting impact on the international profile of the University of Erfurt and have initiated new developments on campus in the areas of study and research.

All four nominations this year met the criteria mentioned above, and so the decision was once again very close. The nominees were:

• the project ‘School in an immigrant society: Sweden and Germany in comparison’ – a collaboration between Professor Agnes Pfrang, Dr Lisa Sauer and Judith Preiß from the Faculty of Education and the University of Stockholm;
• the Studium Fundamentale seminar “Wellbeing of the Child” by Professor Myriam Wijllens and Yeshica Umaña Calderón from the Faculty of Catholic Theology;
• the International Graduate School “Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices” – a collaboration between the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt (Professor Jörg Rüpke) with the University of Graz and 
• the long-term anchoring of the University of Erfurt in the context of international research on the Middle East and the first steps towards establishing a Global South Studies Centre – an initiative by Professor Birgit Schäbler supported by a number of colleagues from all faculties.

In the end, the first two projects came out on top, each receiving prize money of €2,500.