Aktuelles Alumni

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on SUNDAY, January 12, 2025, 11 am - 12.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: Resilient housing construction for flood-prone areas. The speaker will be DAAD alumnus Rupesh Shrestha, Technical Coordinator for Flood Resilient Housing Solutions in Nepal. He holds a Master`s degree in Natural Resources Management and Development from the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne/Germany, has worked as an architect in post-earthquake reconstruction projects in Nepal and served as the secretary of the Nepal German Academic Association and as a DAAD Young Ambassador. As a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Rupesh conducted his fellowship at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Civil Engineering (now known as RPTU/Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität). He is based in Kathmandu.

Das Dezernat Internationale Beziehungen der Universität Heidelberg möchte Studierenden aus dem Ausland Einblick in die deutschen Weihnachts- und Silvestertraditionen ermöglichen. In einem Gasthaushalt verbringt der/die ausländische Studierende einen Teil der Feiertage und kann so die deutsche Kultur kennenlernen. Neben traditionellen Familien können auch Singlehaushalte, Paare, Alleinerziehende oder Wohngemeinschaften aus Heidelberg und Umgebung Gasthaushalt sein – vom Studierenden bis zum Senioren. Entscheidend allein sind Neugier, Weltoffenheit und die Bereitschaft, den Gast als Familienmitglied auf Zeit aufzunehmen. Das Programm richtet sich an kontaktfreudige ausländische Studierende, die an der Universität Heidelberg immatrikuliert sind und die deutsche Kultur (er-)leben möchten. Der Zeitraum kann individuell festgelegt werden. Egal, ob nur für ein Festessen oder für die gesamten Feiertage – der Familienaufenthalt eines ausländischen Gastes stellt in jedem Fall eine interkulturelle Bereicherung für alle Beteiligten dar. Das Dezernat vermittelt den Kontakt zwischen Gasthaushalt und den Studierenden. Die Gäste bringen ihr eigenes Taschengeld mit. Die Gastfamilien bieten den Studierenden je nach individueller Absprache Unterkunft, Verpflegung und die Teilnahme am Familienalltag.

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, December 13, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET (GMT/UTC +1). The topic will be: Inner Development Goals in Times of Political Turmoil: From Inner Growth to Outer Change? The speaker will be DAAD alumna Nafisa Mirzojamshedzoda from Tajikistan, a PhD candidate at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Germany) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Political Science and International Development Studies from universities in Germany (Heidelberg, Marburg) and South Korea (Seoul) and is a facilitator for global citizenship education within the German UNESCO Commission's kulturweit program.

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, November 22, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CET. The topic will be: Conflict resolution and cooperation - what to learn from great apes. The speaker will be Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Amaro, Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling/Scotland. He received a Bachelor´s in Biology from the University Autònoma of Barcelona (his hometown) and a Master´s in Primatology from the University of Barcelona before getting his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPIEA) in Leipzig, supported by the DAAD. Dr. Sánchez Amaro then held postdoctoral positions at the MPIEA (Comparative Cultural Psychology Department) and the University of California in San Diego (Cognitive Science Department) before moving to the UK.

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, October 11, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be:
International economic relations in times of crises – the German government´s approach. The speaker will be Dr. Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag). Ms. Brantner studied Political Sciences at the Sciences Po in Paris and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York City, before receiving a PhD degree from the University of Mannheim (Thesis: “The reformability of the United Nations”). She has also served as a Member of the European Parliament.

The next Heidelberg Talks Online (HTO) session takes place on Friday, July 12, 2024, 7 pm - 8.30 pm CEST (GMT/UTC +2). The topic will be Civil Society: Nailing Jelly to the Wall - or a Democratic Alternative? The speaker will be Wolfgang Goede, international science journalist, knowledge facilitator, author, lecturer and radio host based in Munich, Germany, and Medellín, Colombia. He received an M.A. degree in Communication Science and Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and his main research focus lies on the latest academic and technological developments of our time. As a fellow of the Maecenata Think Tank in Berlin, he regularly publishes his research and best-practice highlights on this platform.