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SUMMER CAMP DIVERSITY AND INTERCULTURAL EXPERIENCE FOR PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS, JULY 26 – AUGUST 9, 2015
 

Summer Camps 2019

Take the opportunity to spend your summer at an international university, and meet young people from all over the world!

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 what it is like to study at an academically-challenging, international, English-speaking university.

Explore an academic field of your choice with our professors, and have fun along the way with excursions, campus activities, and a big final night party!

For the fourth year running, we offer the summer camp workshops in collaboration with the VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure), Germany’s largest association of engineers.

Get a taste of university life, and explore the world of Jacobs University in the summer of 2019!

 

Your options: join us for one week of exciting workshops, or book additional weeks of language courses.
Workshops: July 28 – August 3, 2019
German language course Part 1: August 5 to August 14, 2019
Germany language course Part 2: August 15 to August 25, 2019

  • Workshops:
    • Natural Sciences
    • Social Sciences
    • Resources & Technology
  • German Language Course Part 1:
    For different levels: from beginners to advanced
  • German Language Course Part 2:
    For different levels: from beginners to advanced
 

Explore your interests: our workshops

Join one of our eight 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.

The workshops take place from July 28 to August 3, 2019.

 

German Language Courses

Learn German during the summer and earn a German language certificate at Jacobs University.
We offer courses for different levels, and you are free to attend either Part 1, Part 2, or both.

  • German Language Course Part 1:
    August 5 to August 14, 2019
    A1.1, A2.1, B1.1, B2.2 (1)
  • German Language Course Part 2:
    August 15 to August 25, 2019
    A1.2, A2.2, B1.2, B2.2 (2)


For students who already have some knowledge of German, we offer a placement test on August 5, 2019.

 

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).

 

Excursions and campus activities

The Summer Camp is also a 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 with your friends, or take advantage of our sports facilities – football field, basketball, tennis and beach volleyball courts, gym, and more.

 

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.

 

Costs

Summer Camp: 450 Euro
The fee includes room and board, excursions within the context of the Summer Camp, and participation in the workshops.
Please note that travel costs to and from Summer Camp, and additional spending money are the responsibility of the participants.
We offer a pick-up and drop-off service to and from the Bremen Airport, and Bremen Main Station.
Pick-up: July 28, 2019
Drop-off: Aug 3, 2019

Language Course: 450 Euro for each part (includes room and board, and lessons)

 

How to apply for the Summer Camp

The application for the Summer Camp will open on November 15, 2018.
To apply, please complete our online application.
The deadline for application submission is March 3, 2019.

 

Contact our Admissions Team

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

Cristina Calvopiña
Recruitment Counselor and Admissions Officer
Sharon Min
Recruitment Counselor and Admissions Officer
E-Mail: summerprograms [at] jacobs-university.de (subject: Summer%20Camp%202017)
 
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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.