»I’m looking forward to promoting the BAUHAUS4EU Alliance project through these visits and the anticipated in-depth discussions at the partner universities in Thessaloniki and Tirana. We will be meeting with EU project funding experts who will enrich the Alliance in regards to geography and culture. I’m also delighted that a number of professors and staff members will be joining us. This will allow us to collect and analyse our experiences together and discuss the next steps. In doing so, we will be increasing the opportunities for internationalisation at our university and providing a broad range of possibilities that will benefit all status groups«, explains University President, Prof. Peter Benz.

The trips are intended to promote dialogues in the fields of administration, research and teaching. The programme includes meetings with the university directorates, lab and research centre visits, and discussions between departments. In Albania, a meeting has been scheduled with the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and the Deputy Mayor of Tirana.

Prof. Peter Benz will be accompanied on both trips by Dr. Christian Kästner and Dr. Tonia Schmitz. Other university members who will be participating are Chancellor Dr. Horst Henrici, Prof. Dr. Jutta Emes, Prof. Dr. Stefan Lucks, Anke Schultz, and StuKo (Student Government) student representative Milla Semisch (specialising in sustainability). Two representatives from the University of Music FRANZ LISZT, Dr. Jens Ewen and Prof. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, will also be joining the trip.

Prof. Dr. Tom Lahmer, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lars Abrahamczyk, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Grischa Bertram, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jasper Cepl, Dr. Andreas Mai, Claudia Goldammer, and Kartik Bist from the StuKo (Student Government) (»Bauhaus Internationals«) will travel to Tirana.

Prof. Peter Benz will also be giving a lecture at the EIMAD Conference (27 to 29 June). The Conference is being held at the partner university Instituto Politécnio de Castelo Branco (Portugal).

About the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance
The BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance is made up of ten partner universities. In addition to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Alliance members include the Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), the University of Bergamo (Italy), the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France), the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France), the University of Economics in Katowice (Poland), the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (Bulgaria), the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (Portugal), the University of Macedonia (Greece), and the Polis University (Albania).

Additional information on the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance can be found under: https://www.bauhaus4.eu/

For questions, please contact Eva Léchelle, European Partner Network Development Representative, by e-mail eva.lechelle[at]uni-weimar.de.