Heidelberg University and the University of Notre Dame Lay the Groundwork for Collaboration
Photo: Matt Cashore
A delegation from Heidelberg visited the United States in April 2014 within the framework of the cooperation between Heidelberg University and the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. Prof. Dr Bernhard Eitel, Rector of Heidelberg University, and Prof. Dr Nick Entrikin, Vice President and Associate Provost for Internationalization at the University of Notre Dame, signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ outlining the future collaboration between the two universities. This collaboration will take the form of cooperation projects between disciplines and a student exchange programme. The universities are also considering sharing their foreign offices.
In addition, they plan to include their respective partner universities in the cooperation, among them Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Kyoto University. Heidelberg University and Kyoto University have been partners for nearly 25 years and in 2010 were founding members of the German-Japanese university consortium HeKKSaGOn.
A delegation of the University of Notre Dame came to Heidelberg in the spring of 2013 to discuss an expansion of the cooperation between the two universities. The idea for this was launched in September 2012 at the second Research Alumni Meeting in Boston, where participants sounded out the chances of a closer cooperation between Heidelberg University and North American universities. The first actual result of the cooperation between Heidelberg and Notre Dame was an international conference in March 2014 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WW I. The conference was organised jointly by academics from both universities and took place in London, in a building owned by the University of Notre Dame.
