IfEU Alumni Newsletter 4|2024

Welcome back!

Welcome to our fourth alumni newsletter of the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar!

Read on to learn more about the alumni meet-ups we had last year, the upcoming alumni events, what our alumnus Gytis is currently doing after completing his Master's degree in European Urban Studies and how you can collaborate with us for future alumni newsletter and stay connected with the IfEU.

March 2023
June 2023
Graduation Ceremony

2023 Alumni Reunions

Last year we set a goal to zoom out a little bit and strengthen the community of alumni students, and reunite with as many of you as we can. And it is with great pleasure that we announce that this goal was successfully achieved! The very long awaited reunions that were so missed during the Covid lockdowns finally happened, and the fact that we had not one, not two, but three whole reunions in one year tells a lot about how much we’ve missed you all!

The first alumni bar night happened in March 2023, we were so excited to see many alumni from EUS 2019 generation back in Weimar and looking forward to having more bar nights like this in the future! 

Then we had an opportunity to meet up again in June 2023 during the Urbanistik Alumni Weekend, which was also the time when Alumni Association elected a new board. Just recently in March 2024, we meet again, this time in Chemnitz. We are also really happy to see that alumni trips are coming back, it’s a great way to stay connected and feed on passion about urbanism by learning new things! 

The reunion in June 2023 was also combined with the graduation ceremony: it is a celebration and official ceremony that the university threw for those who graduated last year. Those of you who will graduate this year will also have a ceremony like this, so there will definitely be another chance to celebrate and reunite in the Autumn of 2024.  

IfEU 20: 20 years anniversary

The IfEU was founded 2004. This year, we celebrate anniversary with a lot of events and exhibitions. Look to the homepage Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: IfEU 20 - Jubiläum (uni-weimar.de) and propose your ideas (see bar4ideas film).

Alumni Map

The time goes by, and a lot of you are spreading your wings and settling in cities all over Germany and the world. We love to see it and want to keep in touch with you and make it easier for other alumni to keep track of where others are. That is why we came up with the idea of creating a collaborative online map, where you can pin your location, and others can see which city you are living and working in the moment, so in case they are nearby, they can get in touch, and the IfEU alumni can stay together and support each other no matter where you are in the world. 

Follow this link to add yourself: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zYdVMvQHdKqTTXgMA  

Save the date(s)

The Alumni Association is currently working hard on organising an excursion to Chemnitz, which will happen already this March. Additionally, they are organising a Summer reunion, followed by Association meeting, which this year will happen during Summaery, on the 13th of July. A good opportunity to come to back to Weimar!

Meet Gytis Nakvosas

Gytis is one of our alumni and graduated last year with the MSc European Urban Studies. Gytis moved back to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he is original from and is sharing what his life and work has been like since moving back. You can find out more about Gytis’ experience in our new Alumni Portraits section: https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/architektur-und-urbanistik/institute/ifeu/alumni/alumni-portraits/meet-gytis-nakvosas/
 

You are also welcome to share your experiences with other alumni and submit your portrait so we can publish it on the Alumni Portraits page in the future (ifeu.studium@archit.uni-weimar.de).

Upload Your Thesis on the Project Platform

IfEU students always work on fascinating topics and subjects, and we want to encourage you to showcase your work, which you now can do it by uploading it on the project platform by following this link: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/profile/experimentbauhaus/

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