Think Tank for the Future: Jacobs University Celebrates its Distinction as »Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas 2008«

For its future oriented potential Jacobs University will officially be awarded the distinction of a »Selected Landmark« on September 9 by two high-ranking representatives of the Deutsch Bank: Jürgen Fitschen, Global Head of Regional Management and Chairman of the Management Committee Germany, and Martin Klinkhammer, Head of Private Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank Bremen. As one of the winners of the nationwide competition »365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas« Jacobs University will celebrate this award by inviting the public in co-operation with Deutsche Welle TV to a theme night with the motto »Elites in a globalized world«.

[ Sep 04, 2008] 

Print - Web Jürgen Fitschen, Global Head of Regional Management Deutsce Bank und Vorsitzender des Management Committee Deutschland and Jacobs University President Joachim Treusch.		Print - Web The evening's panel discussion and Deutsche Welle TV film presentation in the Campus Center		Print - Web The Land of Ideas celebration in the Campus Center.
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In the afternoon at an internal campus ceremony, Jürgen Fitschen will officially present the award certificate and honor the occasion by giving a special lecture on »Global Economy«. The ceremony, which starts at 3:00 p. m. in the Conference Hall, and the lecture will be held in English.

The public evening program, which starts at 7:30 p. m. in the Conference Hall, will be held in German:

Welcome Address by Jacobs University President Joachim Treusch

Laudatory Address in honor of the award »Selected Landmark« by
Martin Klinkhammer, Head of Private Wealth Management, Deutsche Bank Bremen

Film Presentation
Episodes from Deutsche Welle’s »Made in Germany« 5-part television series
»Campus Bremen – Tomorrow’s Business Leaders«
Background discussion with Michael Wetzel, author of the series

Panel Discussion
»Made in Germany – What qualifications do the elites need in a globalized world?«

Joachim Treusch, President of Jacobs University
Matthias Fonger, Executive Director and I. Syndic of Bremen Chamber of Commerce
Eva Marie Haberfellner, Director Schule Schloss Salem
Christian Jacobs, Chairman of Jacobs Foundation
Mark Speich, Executive Director of Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland GmbH
Presentation: Manuela Kasper-Claridge, Chief Business Editor, DW-TV

A reception will follow the panel discussion.

»With its excellent research and teaching conditions Jacobs University attracts smart minds from around the world to Bremen and provides future business leaders with scarce, but none the less highly necessary qualifications of intercultural competence. At this university every day a new chapter of our economy’s track record is being written,« laudatory Martin Klinkhammer explains the jury’s decision in the competition »365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas«.

»Jacobs University is an impressive and an especially innovative international university project«, Manuela Kasper-Claridge, Deutsche Welle TV’s Chief Business Editor, thinks, too, and therefore presented Europe’s most international university in a 5-part documentary of the business magazine »Made in Germany«. »Made in Germany«, which in addition to the German version is also broadcasted worldwide in English and Arabic, has several million viewers.

The TV documentation »Campus Bremen: Tomorrow’s Business Leaders«, which for several weeks observed the busy and challenging daily routine of three students from Germany, India, and Nigeria, gives an inside-view of the unique intercultural community life of young people from more than 90 nations on the Jacobs campus. As a basis for the night’s panel discussion, parts of the series will illustrate Jacobs University’s central educational idea. President Joachim Treusch about the concept, which inspired the university’s distinction as »Selected Landmark in the Land of Ideas«: »We select our students exclusively according to their academic talent and personal maturity, which in itself makes our student body unique. Most invaluable for the success of our educational concept, however, is the international and intercultural diversity of our students. No curriculum, be it ever so sophisticated, can convey as much as these young people learn by living together in our on-campus colleges.«

Jacobs University and the competition »365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas« more info »