SPRING Network Meeting 2014
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November 2014 - From Nov. 10 to 14 the annual SPRING Network Meeting took place in Dortmund. All partner universities had sent their representatives: Dr. Felix Fuders and Patricio Belloy (UACh), Dr. Mario Delos Reyes and Carmeli Marie C. Chaves (UP-SURP), Dr. Eric Oduro-Ofori (KNUST), Dr. Ally Hasan Namangaya (ARU) and Prof. Dr. Sabine Baumgart, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Tietz, Dr. Karin Gaesing, Dr. Wolfgang Scholz and Dr. Anne Weber (TU Do).
The first two days were committed to the admission of SPRING students for the next academic year and the selection of qualified candidates for DAAD scholarships, which was conducted together with representatives from DAAD (Gabriele von Fircks and Lidia Aouba). In the evening of the second day the representatives met this year’s students to provide information about the 2nd year of the SPRING Programme. On Nov 12 and 13 SPRING network participants discussed internals. Friday was assigned for a presentation from Prof. Boyle, Wayne State University, Detroit on “Detroit – A Broken City in a Fractured Region” and bi-lateral meetings between TU Dortmund representatives and their colleagues from SPRING partner universities.