Reintegration Workshop of Graduates of EPOS in Hanoi
- SPRING
In the beginning of September, the third reintegration workshop for graduates of the Development-Related Postgraduate Courses (EPOS) in Vietnam have been held at the German-Vietnamese Centre in Hanoi. It was jointly organised by the EPOS courses Development Management of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and SPRING, whereas Prof. Dr. Einhard Schmidt-Kallert led through the workshop.
About 40 alumni from Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam took part and developed together with employers from the region ideas for pilot projects to support scholarship holders upon their return home. The successfully proven concept aims to ensure that benefits from the advantages that EPOS alumni have can be also used by future scholarship holders. Among the most interesting ideas the following were considered as pilot projects:
- Regional workshop series offered by EPOS alumni with the support of the DAAD branch in Hanoi
- Elaboration of the website “Lighthouse” by EPOS alumni, on which information about job offerts, continuing education events etc. can be exchanged and forwarded
- Establishing the mentoring program “Leaders spark future leaders” by EPOS alumni, which provides adequate consultancy before, during and after the studies to the mentees by experienced alumni