INCOMING VISITORS

In April, Sonia Durán, Vice President for International Affairs at Universidad del Rosario in Colombia, South America, visited the campus to explore research collaborations. Sonia is the first Colombian visitor to the SU campus.

Other visitors this semester included:

• Dr Robert Jones, Chancellor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA;
• Prof John Latham, Vice-Chancellor: Coventry University, UK, with Deputy Vice-Chancellors Prof Richard Dashwood and Mr Ian Dunn;
• Prof Oliver Günther, President: University of Potsdam, Germany, and Prof Florian Schweigert, Vice-President;
• Prof Koen Becking, President: Tilburg University, Netherlands;
• Prof Heinrich Köster, President: Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany;
• Ms Gerda Meinl-Kexel, Founder and Managing Partner, Hochschule Bad Homburg, Germany;
• Prof Pieter Lievens, Vice-Rector: KU Leuven University, Belgium;
• Prof Eva Obergfell, Vice-President: Humboldt University Berlin, Germany;
• Prof Bert Eichhorn, Vice-President: SRH Hochschule Berlin, Germany;
• HE Christophe Farnaud, Ambassador of France; and
• HE Dr Martin Schäfer, Ambassador of Germany.

American delegations from Seattle University, Clark University, Texas Christian University, Northwestern University and Fordham University focused on developing Study Abroad programmes for their students, whilst delegates from the Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research, the University of Zambia, the University of North Georgia (USA) and Pennsylvania State University (USA) explored research collaborations.

Visits from Michigan University (USA), King’s College London (UK), FU Berlin (Germany), Hamburg University (Germany) and the University of Uppsala (Sweden) aimed at developing their existing partnerships with SU.

Benchmarking visits came from Botswana International University of Science and Technology (Student Affairs and student leadership), Mekelle University, Ethiopia, and Botswana University (Enterprise Strategy).

The Centre for Collaboration in Africa, hosted with SU International, received a visit from Ms Elif Memis Marsman from the European Commission EACEA and Dr Yohannes Woldetensae from the African Union to evaluate the TRECCA Intra-ACP mobility programme undertaken by the European Commission EACEA and African Union at SU.