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A year after the generous donation of the Stiftung Mercator GmbH and the Stiftung Mercator Switzerland, IUB’s Mercator College was officially dedicated on the 8th of April. It is the second college on campus to be officially named. The first students already moved into the renovated buildings in September.
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Mercator College has been given it’s name to honour the Mercator Foundation GmbH from Essen and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland, based in Lucerne. In year 2002, these two foundations donated a total of € 6.5 million to IUB for the renovation and construction of the second college.
The dedication of the college was celebrated with a reception and the unveiling of an copper dedication plate in honour of the donors. This was followed by speeches of Ian Marshall, member of Mercator student government, Mandy Boehnke, College Master of Mercator College, IUB president Fritz Schaumann, and Dr. Hartmut Müller-Peddinghaus and Dr. Michael Schmidt on behalf of the Mercator Foundation. IUB students added to the celebration with a diverse cultural program.
Mercator College, a place for students to live and learn, is modelled after American residential colleges, and currently hosts 170 students from more than 50 countries. At present it is one of the two residential IUB colleges. The third college is currently under construction. Apart for the students’ rooms, the college contains a dining hall, where students receive three meals a day, a lounge, a study room, a TV and leisure rooms, as well as the apartment of the College Masters.
Students actively participate in the administration and governing of their colleges. The College Masters, always a professor at IUB with his/her family, share every aspect of college life with the students. Their main role is to be mentors to the students and assist them in their self-governance of the colleges.
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Mercator Foundation |
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The Swiss Mercator Foundation was founded in 1996, the Mercator Foun-dation in Germany in 1997, both by the Karl Schmidt family.
The two foundations support innova-tive concetpts in higher education and also intercultural understanding of children and young people. This in keeping with the famous Duisburg cartographer, scientist and 16th-century entrepreneur Gerhard Mercator after whom the Foundation is named.
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IUB College Master |
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Being a college master in a culturally diverse environment such as IUB is a challenging responsibility. The inter-view with College Master Klaus Boehnke 'From First to Second Transition' can be found in the IUB-Magazine blue print online Nr. 3, Section 05 // THINK TANK.
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