Hugus participates in DAAD seminar in Europe

Frank Hugus, associate provost for International Programs, participated in the Germany Today 2009 seminar, “Opening New Horizons: How Your Students Can Benefit from Exposure to German and European Higher Education,” held June 7-13 in Germany and Belgium.

He was among 21 senior international administrators from the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand chosen to participate in the program sponsored by DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service.

Seminar participants visited universities, governmental agencies, and research institutions in Bonn, Brussels, and Berlin and met with national and European Union education policy makers, university administrators, faculty and students. The DAAD group heard presentations by various German and European officials on topics such as the Bologna Process, “Higher Education in Germany, Europe and the US,” “The Roles of EU Institutions in Higher Education and Research in Germany and Europe,” “The European Institute for Innovation and Technology,” “Challenges and Opportunities of US-German Student Exchange Programs,” the German “Excellence Initiative,” and “New Approaches in Graduate Education and International Research Cooperation.”

From June 14-19 Hugus also visited three of UMass Amherst’s partner universities in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, Ulm, Konstanz and Freiburg. He met with faculty and administrators of the universities’ international offices to discuss possibilities for collaborative research and additional ways in which UMass Amherst students can benefit from the various education-abroad opportunities offered by Baden-Württemberg’s nine research universities.

July 1, 2009.

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