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Summer Camp 2020

Due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, we will not be hosting our annual summer camp in 2021. Thank you for understanding.

Take the opportunity to spend your summer at an international, English-speaking university in Germany, make friends from all over the world and challenge yourself academically!

Join us for an amazing experience over the summer! The Jacobs University Summer Camp is a great opportunity for high school students to find out not only what it is like to study at an international, English-speaking University but also to get a taste of the student social life.

The Summer Camp 2020 provides you 9 amazing days of workshops, excursions, social & intercultural exchange activities, sports as well as an exciting get-together party!

Get a taste of university life!

Your options: join us for 9 days of exciting workshops and social activities or book additional weeks of German Language Courses.

Summer Camp 2020: join us for 9 days of exciting workshops & social activities.
Dates: July 24 – August 1, 2020
Please read our Application Instructions.

German Language Courses (GLC) : You can extend your stay and join the German Language Courses.
Dates: Part I: August 3 - August 12, 2020 and Part II: August 13 - August 22, 2020

  • Summer Camp 2020

    Workshops:
    • Social Sciences, Economics and Management
    • Mathematics and Physics
    • Energy, Resources and Technology

  • Summer German Language Courses 2020 Part I:

    • Optional Placement Test: August 04, 2020
    • Social activities & Excursions
    • Final Examination: August 12, 2020
    2,5 ECTS Accreditation

  • Summer German Language Courses 2020 Part II:

    • Social activities & Excursions
    • Final Examination: August 22, 2020
    2,5 ECTS Accreditation


This year Jacobs University in collaboration with the Germany’s largest association of engineers (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure -VDI) offers an extended 9-Day Summer Camp, in the city of Bremen in Germany. Take the chances to explore your interests and enjoy our colorful social program.

Additionally, you have the option to join our challenging 10-Day Summer German Language Courses which start directly after the Summer Camp. Take the opportunity to improve your German language skills and enjoy exciting social activities!

 

Explore Your Interests: Workshop Areas

Join one of our workshops from your preferred academic field. We bring together young people from all over the world to participate in workshops on the big issues facing modern societies today – from safeguarding the environment to democracy and modern information technology.

You will participate in different workshops from one of the following categories:

  • Social Sciences, Economics and Management
  • Mathematics and Physics
  • Energy, Resources and Technology

Please find here the workshops of the summer camp 2020.

 

German Language Courses (GLC)

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have canceled the 2021 German language courses. Thank you for your understanding.

This is your chance to learn German during the summer!
We offer courses for different levels.

  • German Language Course Part I:
    August 3 to August 12, 2020
    A1.1, A2.1, B1.1, B2.1 (1)
  • German Language Course Part II:
    August 13 to August 22, 2020
    A1.2, A2.2, B1.2, B2.1 (2)


For students who already have some knowledge of German, we offer a placement test on August 4, 2020.

⇓ A1.1
⇓ A1.2
⇓ A2.1
⇓ A2.2
⇓ B1.1
⇓ B1.2
⇓ B2.1 (1) & (2)


Click here for more information about our German Language Courses 2020.

 

Who can participate in the Summer Camp?

The Summer Camp is designed for high school students between grades 10 - 13 (last three years of high school). You should be between 15 and 18 years old.

 

Workshops & Social Program

Enjoy a unique international experience, under a colorful program with highly academic workshops and plenty of extracurricular activities on and off-campus. Get the chance to explore an academic field of your choice with our professors and have fun with various exciting activities.

The Social Program includes plenty of interesting activities on campus as well as activities off-campus (e.g. excursions), accompanied by tutors and our professional team of supervisors. Use this great opportunity to broaden your horizons, and get to know a new culture. Our tutors and supervisors organize guided excursions off-campus, so you have the chance to explore the beautiful, historic city of Bremen. There is plenty to do on campus as well! Play table tennis or pool, watch a movie in our campus cinema with your new friends or take advantage of our sports facilities – football field, basketball, tennis and beach volleyball courts, gym, and more.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

24.07.Day 1: Arrival Day & Intercultural activities
25.07.Day 2: Social Program
26.07.Day 3: Social Program
27.07.Day 4: Workshops & social activities
28.07.Day 5: Workshops & social activities
29.07.Day 6: Big Excursion
30.07.Day 7: Workshops & social activities
31.07.Day 8: Workshops & social activities
01.08.Day 9: Closing Ceremony & Departure Day
 

Accommodation on our Residential Campus

At Jacobs University, we are dedicated to make our campus and its residential colleges a comfortable and exciting ‘home away from home’: a place to live, to learn, to grow, and to have fun. You will live in a private bedroom with a shared bathroom in one of our four residential colleges on our beautiful and safe campus. The lecture halls and research laboratories are within close reach. All colleges have a student cafeteria where you will eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Our international cuisine offers something for every taste.

 

Fees

Due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, we will not be hosting our annual summer camp in 2021. Thank you for understanding.

 

How to Apply for the Summer Camp

Due to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, we will not be hosting our annual summer camp in 2021. Thank you for understanding.

Application Requirements: transcript, and a short motivational statement.
The application for the Summer Camp is closed.
Please read our Application Instructions.
The deadline for application submission is March 15, 2020.
Please note that decisions will only be communicated on March 25, 2020.
Please read our Cancellation Policy.

 

Contact our Summer Camp Team

Do you have any questions? We are happy to help you!

Office of Student Recruitment
Tel: +49 421 200-4452
E-Mail: study [at] jacobs-university.de

 

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THIS IS WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY ABOUT THE SUMMER CAMP

Ayesha Naeem - Pakistan

Travelling all the way from Pakistan to Germany for the Jacobs University-VDI Zukunftspiloten Summer Camp is one of the most significant decisions I ever made. All the supervisors and professors were extremely considerate and I now feel prepared for future studies abroad. The extra curricular activities that were organized by the team also helped me to explore new cultures and gave me a chance to have an intercultural experience I had never experienced before. This Summer Camp was something like a dream come true and I'm glad to have been a part of it. Every student back in Pakistan wishes to be the part of a program like this and I'm so happy that I got an opportunity to represent my college and country in this kind of event.
Summercamp 2017

Joakim Jakovleski - Macedonia

Looking for ways to spend my summer, I was told about the Jacobs University-VDI Zukunftspiloten Summer Camp. Not thinking much of it at first, I applied and was accepted as one of the 86 young people that were going to be spending a week in Bremen later that year. But I was truly amazed when I actually came to the Summer Camp and started the seven day whirlwind of new knowledge, friendships, and experiences. The workshops explored various interesting and engaging topics, and the camp staff entertained and educated us with all kinds of excursions, visits and activities. But it was definitely the amazing people from Germany and all around the globe that made this summer experience what it truly was – the time of my life. So, if you want to invest in yourself, meet new people, or explore Bremen, this is the place for you.
Summercamp 2017

Carolina Abreu - Portugal

My most treasured memory will always be being a part of the “Integration through Community Work” workshop and being able to visit the Geschichtenhaus in Bremen and meeting people who have been through the worst and were able to take the best out of it and pull themselves up and not give up on life, it was truly inspiring and made me look at life in a more positive way. It showed me that we just need each other, a world as a community. I loved my experience at Jacobs University Summer Camp; I even wished it could’ve been longer. Cheers to the best experience I’ve ever had in my life.

Eliza Checiu - Romania

I was taken aback by how the other participants welcomed me with open arms. They gave me one of the best birthdays I have ever had, with their surprise card and ‘ice cream cake’, even giving me a crown and singing to me in all the languages possible. But with all the fun and exciting memories, I can’t fail to mention the academic part of it all. In the Sensor Network workshop, I was given the opportunity to carry out different experiments with the sensors under the guidance of our teacher, Professor Fangning Hu, and the teaching assistant, Lallit Singh, who offered me insight into what it means to be a student at Jacobs. Presenting the work done by the workshop was a great opportunity for me to practice my public speaking skills too, which was a big plus. All in all, it was an experience I won't ever forget. I will keep not only memories and pictures, but good friends and a strong desire to apply to Jacobs University.