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09, 2001]
About 200 participants were present on the IUB campus on 2 October. At the beginning of the event small groups were given a guided tour of the campus by IUB students. Thanks to several participating IUB students, who arranged for blue IUB umbrellas to be available to the tour groups, even the rain could not dampen the interest of First Tuesday participants in the first private university in Germany.
The conference room in the Campus Center was awash with light in the colors of First Tuesday: red, green, and yellow. The spacious Campus Center, once home to the officers' cafeteria, will soon house IUB's innovative Information Resource Center (IRC), and the lively First Tuesday IT crowd offered an impressive taste of things to come.
After the initial reception and tours of the campus were over, Andrea Gavriel, Director of Resource Development at IUB, reported on "Case Study IUB: Prospects for and Financing of International Higher Education." The closing remarks, on "Workstations Under Friendly Attack," came from Thorsten Kertzel, Sales & Marketing Manager, DETACK GmbH, Witten.
The rest of the evening was devoted by entrepreneurs, investors and IT service directors to the "core business" of First Tuesday: matchmaking and mingling, seeing and being seen.
IUB students and professors, equally interested in networking possibilities, soon became a part of the crowd; discussions covered work apprenticeships, plans for cooperation, and many more fanciful topics.
At the close of the evening, both First Tuesday hosts and guests alike left with new inspiration, convinced that information and communications technology will continue to play a significant role in the future.
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