A warm welcome to Braunschweig! Welcoming the International Students to TU Braunschweig
India, Syria, Tunisia, Taiwan, Spain, South Africa, Mauritius, Myanmar – these are just a few of the countries from which students come to the Technical University Braunschweig. In the Tentomax and in the foyer of the BRICS, the new international students have now been welcomed with a large Welcome Reception.
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Welcome to TU Braunschweig! Dr. Astrid Sebastian of the International Office welcomes the international students in the Tentomax. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
The Gauss Friends introduce themselves in the Tentomax. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students- TU-Braunschweig
Welcome in Spanish, Bulgarian, Turkish and Arabic. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
After the official welcome in the Tentomax, the buffet was opened in the foyer of the BRICS. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Florian Schneider from the sports centre of the TU Braunschweig gives tips on the programme. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Andrés Muños explains the offers of the Gauss Friends. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Marie Neumann explains how students can use the project "S.O.S. Studying without language barriers". Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/ TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Yeru Kim from South Korea was awarded with the DAAD Award for the Best Foreign Student. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
Dr. Astrid Sebastian from the International Office of the International House welcomed around 180 students and doctoral candidates in the Audimax replacement tent. “The circus tent is also a symbol of how studying here at the TU Braunschweig is,” she said in her welcoming address. “Circus must be fun: That’s definitely what studying at our university is all about. Circus must be colourful: The TU Braunschweig also attaches great importance to a colourful, large selection of subjects, teaching methods, leisure activities and personalities.”
The international students were able to find out about some of the offers at the Carolo-Wilhelmina at the buffet in the foyer of the BRICS: Employees of the language centre, the sports centre, the university community as well as the psychotherapeutic counselling and the social counselling of the Studentenwerk explained their programmes. In addition, the new students could get to know projects for international students such as SCOUT, S.O.S. and inTU – International Tutorials at the TU Braunschweig and student groups such as the Erasmus Student Network and the Gauss Friends.
German Dinner and Campus Tour
These had already prepared various offers for the Internationals in the past weeks. The European Student Network (ESN) had organized a Welcome Week with Speed Friending and German Dinner, the Gauss Friends offered a two-week First Steps program with campus tour, city tours, intercultural workshop, help with filling out forms and an excursion to Bremen. Around 200 international students took part in the various programme items.
With 3,100 students, 16 percent of all TU Braunschweig students come from countries outside Germany, most of them from China, Syria, India, Tunisia and Iran. A total of 113 nations are studying at Carolo-Wilhelmina this winter semester. The strongest demand was for the Master’s programmes in Electromobility, Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Mechanical Engineering student Pej-Shiuang Lan is from Taiwan and will spend six months studying in Braunschweig. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
The Indian mechanical engineering student Shaik Asif has been in Germany for three weeks and is looking forward to studying CSE. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Ian Jannasch comes from South Africa and will study "Computational Sciences in Engineering" at the TU Braunschweig. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
International students - TU Braunschweig (2019)
Margit Applegate from the USA studies architecture and is looking to improve her German during her stay in the Lion City. Picture credits: Jonas Vogel/TU Braunschweig
Support from the Gauss Friends
Pej-Shiuang Lan also travelled to Germany with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in her pocket. The 25-year-old from Taiwan will spend six months at the TU Braunschweig and is particularly interested in courses in the field of electromobility. Over the past few days, she has familiarised herself with the campus and the city through the Gauss Friends First Steps programme. “That helped a lot with settling in,” she says happily.
Shaik Asif has also benefited from the support of the Gauss Friends team. “They helped me find a room,” says the 23-year-old Mechanical Engineering student from India. “And I’ve already met at least 30 people.”
First and foremost: learning German
To improve his German quickly, Ian Jannasch moved into a shared flat with German students. “When you study in Germany, of course you want to learn the language. That was important for me.” The 23-year-old studied Electrical Engineering in South Africa. Now he has enrolled in the bilingual course “Computational Sciences in Engineering”. “Germany is known for its good engineering.”
Margit Applegate would also like to improve her language skills so that she can communicate better with her German relatives in Bavaria. The 21-year-old from New Jersey will study Architecture for two semesters in the Lion City. “The university has a great Architecture program,” she enthuses.
Pharmacy student Carmela Peña Romero will also spend a year at Carolo-Wilhelmina. The 20-year-old from Madrid has come to Braunschweig via the Erasmus programme. “The city is the perfect size for me,” she says. “Not too big and not too small.”