Hessian State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts
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ISU Kassel invites motivated and qualified students or graduates to join the programme. Students who would like to focus their studies on renewable energies and earthquake engineering, risk management, nanoscience, or German culture and language will most likely find the ISU programme particularly interesting.
The University of Kassel plays a leading role in environmental studies and is one of Germany's outstanding universities in the field of environmental education and research. ISU offers specially designed seminars concentrating on the environmental and technological aspects of engineering, business, and politics. Examples of English-taught seminars include:
Participants can take two seminars.
German Language Courses:
In addition to the academic seminars in the respective disciplines, all students attend intensive German language courses. These courses are offered at three different levels (from beginning to advanced). Participants will have plenty of opportunities to practise their language skills while staying with a host family.
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A minimum English language level of B2 is required for the ISU Kassel seminars.
Living with a German host family in Kassel, students will have a unique opportunity to experience German culture and everyday life first-hand. The homestay adds immeasurably to the study abroad experience and guarantees daily opportunities to improve both language and intercultural communication skills outside the classroom.
Accommodation with host families includes two meals per day. Breakfast and dinner will be provided by the host families, and an affordable lunch will be available at various campus cafeterias, where vegetarian meals are also served. At weekends, three meals a day will be provided by the host families.
Students can enjoy an exciting cultural and leisure time programme. It includes the following: excursions to places like Fritzlar, Breitenau, and companies (depending on the seminars chosen); a guided tour of Kassel, which is known for the documenta exhibition and for the Grimm brothers' fairy tales; a hike to the Hercules monument and to the Habichtswald; a barbecue; a film night; opening and closing ceremonies; etc.
Students also have the chance to visit Germany's vibrant and exciting capital by partaking in an optional trip to Berlin.
The University of Kassel is a young, modern, and lively university with a unique profile in natural sciences, engineering, culture, and society. The University of Kassel is uniquely focused on environmentally related education and research. This is reflected in the university's more than 60 study sectors related to environmental issues.
Welcome to "boom town" Kassel: it combines urban culture and pure nature - museums, art, culture, sports, leisure activities, mountains, lakes, and forests as far as the eye can see. At the same time, Kassel is well-connected to Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, and the Rhine and Ruhr regions. Kassel is home to approximately 200,000 people and looks back on more than a thousand years of history as the former capital of "Hessen-Kassel". Today Kassel is a vibrant, young town with a rich heritage.
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