Panel Discussion of Konrad Adenauer Foundation at IUB

On April 6, 2006, the renowned Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers a panel discussion at IUB on Bremen’s university constellation as part of a two-day scholarship student group seminar entitled “Science as an interface between economy and government”.

[ Apr 06, 2006]  Analysing the different concepts of Bremen’s universities as well as their cooperation and competition among each other, the discussion will bring together Max Kaase, Dean of IUB’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Larissa Kühler, assistant to the dean at IUB’s Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, Uwe Apel, vice president for research at Bremen’s University of Applied Science, and Heide Ahrens-Radlanski, head of the academic affairs department at the Universität of Bremen.

25 of the foundation’s stipend holders from all of Germany will attend the seminar. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers political education, conducts scientific fact-finding research for political projects, and grants scholarships to gifted individuals, amongst other activities. It is related to the Christian Democratic movement in Germany and one of the 11 large foundations aiming at supporting gifted young people and political education in general. The visit at IUB including the panel discussion rounds out the two-day program, which offered talks with Hartmut Perschau, Bremen’s former mayor and now head of Bremen’s CDU faction, Klaus Sondergeld, director of Bremen Marketing GmbH, and two company visits.