Conference:
ECER 2009
Format:
Paper
Session Information
20 SES 10, Network 20 meeting – Interactive workshop
Special Meeting NW 20
Time:
2009-09-30
14:45-16:15
Room:
JUR, HS 14
Chair:
John Willumsen
Contribution
A Long-term Cooperation Project between the Universities of Gdansk and Duisburg-Essen
Implementing a Pilot Project at the Universities of Gdansk and Duisburg-Essen with a view to subsequently established a cross-border Master Course in the Humanities at both universities
Official start for students: Academic year 2009/10
1. The Beginnings of a Long-term cooperation
Ever since the nineties of the last century there has been in existence a partnership and cooperation between the universities of Gdansk and Duisburg in the area of European and intercultural research and teaching projects as part of which students from Poland and Germany went on exchange visits to Duisburg or Gdansk respectively. These measures were initiated by Professor Manfred Bayer with the support of DAAD and were later – after this retirement – continued under the auspices of the J. G. Herder Foundation. During the last four years, in his capacity as a Visiting Professor at Gdansk, Professor Bayer has been able to intensify this exchange by annually conducting courses in intercultural studies both in Germany and Poland, in the course of which complete teaching modules in this field have been developed.
Within the development program of the German-Polish Year 2005/6 a newly developed Gdansk-Duisburg Internet Bridge has been established for the purpose of testing this intercultural component which also serves as an obligatory foundation for the proposed German-Polish Master-DUO Course starting now in the Humanities.
2. General Aims and Principal Purpose
This innovative cooperation is aimed at setting up a cross-border university network whose Master-DUO Courses serve the general purpose of international mobility and especially successful relations between Germany and Poland in the areas of joint research and intercultural communication. This aim is confirmed in the preamble to the cooperation agreement signed by the Rectors and Deans on 17th August 2007:
“In order to contribute to the implementation of the Bologna process, of the Lisbon Agenda as well as to act in the spirit of the ‘Common Declaration of the Participants of the Polish-German Higher Education Conference’ in Krakow, May 2005, the University of Gdansk and the University of Duisburg-Essen conclude this Agreement to support the academic cooperation between Poland and Germany as EU member states.”
In accordance with this agreement all Master-DUO students are obliged to attend – in addition to courses in their various special subjects – an additional module on Intercultural Communication which will be offered at both universities.
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3. Results and Perspectives
The pilot period for the initial stage this is subject to evaluation will extend from the academic year 2009/10.
This pilot period over a minimum of two years is considered to be relevant because throughout the course there will be a focus on evaluating the various components of this model course, which will be complemented by an evaluation of the entire product.
After this, the definitive implementation of the Master-DUO Course at the relevant faculties would ensue. All of these measures would make it possible to transfer this exemplary interchange concept to other faculties and universities of Europe.
Prof. Dr. habil. Manfred Bayer
Coordinator for the University of Gdansk
Prof. Dr. habil. Erhard Reckwitz
Coordinator of the University of Duisburg-Essen
Expected Outcomes
References
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