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Paul Wesenberg was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1973 and grew up in Belarus, Finland and Germany. He studied at the Kunstakademie Minsk and at the Muthesius Art University in Kiel, Germany. The second degree was followed by 10 years of project-related work as grafic brand architect in Northern Europe. He received a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) award in 1995. His works have been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Winterthur, Tallinn and Minsk since the 1990s. He lived and worked in Berlin since 2017, in 2019 his art has been shown again at international exhibitions. Wesenberg’s work is also exhibited in different private collections.
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Experts predict a reset of transatlantic collaboration
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) expects academic collaboration with the United States to improve under the new presidency of Joe Biden. Prospects for a reset of transatlantic relations were discussed online two days before Biden took office by a roundtable of experts from both countries.
DAAD President Joybrato Mukherjee views Biden’s choice of geneticist Eric Lander as presidential science advisor and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy as an indication of academia assuming a high significance in the forthcoming administration.
And whereas academic relations between Germany and the USA took a nosedive last summer following the announcement of plans to introduce more stringent visa regulations that would also have affected German academics and students, Mukherjee now perceives better prospects for collaboration.
25 universities join European University Networks
A further 25 German universities have now been added to the country’s European University Networks (EUN) national initiative, supporting the establishment of ‘European Universities’ across the European Union.
The European Universities Initiative is one of the outcomes of the 2017 Gothenburg Summit, where European leaders discussed education and culture issues. The initiative was established to strengthen strategic partnerships across the EU and encourage the emergence of around 20 ‘European Universities’ by 2024, incorporating networks of universities which are to enable students to obtain degrees by combining studies in several EU countries.
It is the one of the flagship initiatives of the EU’s ambitions to build a European Education Area.
TNN | Jan 21, 2021, 11:55 IST
Despite COVID-19, the interest of applicants for studying in Germany remains unshaken, writes Apoorv Mahendru.
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According to recent figures released by the uni-assist, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), almost 60,000 prospective international students from over 180 countries, applied for admission to a German university for the winter semester 2020.
This number of applications is around 80% of the previous year’s figure. Not a very huge dip, given the current global health crisis. In order to give as many applicants as possible the opportunity to study in Germany despite the pandemic, many universities had made their application process more flexible by adopting online application systems, relaxing application requirements and extending deadlines. Pre-Covid figures shared by DZHW (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies) show that the number of international students