President of University of Jena, Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke, Visited NCKU
Tainan, TAIWAN, Sep, 29 --- The President of the University of Jena, Germany (Rektor der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Professor Dr. Klaus Dicke, has a one-day visit at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) on September 29th to meet with the NCKU President, Academician Michael Ming-Chiao Lai (賴明詔). They discussed about possible cooperation and reached a preliminary consensus for the future, in which student exchange within the Department of Laws in both universities could be a beginning and later to expand to other areas of mutual interests.
President Dicke commented that international students in the University of Jena, make up about 10% of student body and most of them are for PhD degree. Regarding to the internationalization, though the undergraduate courses are mostly given in German, however, more and more postgraduate courses have been lectured in English. Notably, University of Jena also has some academic departments to provide the linguistic trainings in German and other foreign languages.
President Lai (賴明詔) commented that NCKU has an outstanding medical school and affiliated teaching hospitals. With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare. NCKU provided so many resources such as advanced national-scale research centers and laboratories to support the teaching and research environment for all the students. Moreover, students graduated from NCKU mostly will possess excellent competence to ensure their career success in Taiwan and in the world. NCKU ranks the 19th worldwide in alternative energy in terms of research papers of distinctive competency, which is the only Taiwanese institution ranked among the top-25 list globally. NCKU has moved 21 places up and ranks the 307th worldwide in comprehensive evaluation, which is only second to National Taiwan University (NTU) among all Taiwanese universities. However, in terms of specific fields, NCKU's College of Engineering exceeds that of NTU and ranks the 30th globally. The Ministry of Education (MOE) allocated the special funding of five year 50 billion NTD (5Y50B) to boost domestic universities to advance at least one field to top-tier status globally. NCKU is totally a comprehensive university.
“We just celebrated the 450th anniversary last year,” said President Dicke. University of Jena is also a comprehensive university with a wide range of professional fields, such as medicine, laws, social sciences and so on. President Lai (賴明詔) expresses his sincere congratulation to President Dicke regarding that the University of Jena’s campus is getting more and more expanded as more buildings, especially in engineering area, are established and inaugurated.
President Dicke is also very interested in the fact that NCKU is so closed to Southern Taiwan Science Park to have very strong strategic partnership. “The environment of Jena is similar to NCKU, and probably we could try to organize and cooperate with each other in the future,” said President Dicke.
“Undergraduate courses in University of Jena are mostly taught in German as for the first language and English as for the second language, however, we will try to provide more courses in Chinese within Jena due to more popularity of Chinese language in the world,” said President Dicke. President Lai (賴明詔) responded that “Taiwan probably is the stepping stone to China for Germany. We will try to provide more chances of student exchange with each other, especially in learning Chinese”.
Regarding to the cooperation field with NCKU and the University of Jena, President Dicke mentioned to sign the collaboration agreement in the future with fields interesting most to both, no matter if in languages or any research areas. President Lai (賴明詔) commented that it would be a good start to have close collaboration in Laws in both universities, such as student exchange, and then expanding it to the fields of science education.
About the University of Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
The information is contained in http://www.uni-jena.de/en/At_a_glance.html.
The Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, founded in 1558, with its 20,000 students distributed over ten different schools leaves its mark on the image of the town. Students of either the university or the University of Applied Sciences make one quarter of the inhabitants of Jena. So, it is all right to say: There is no university in Jena, Jena is a university! Approximately 340 professors and 6,400 members of staff work at university and university hospital, the latter of which keeps developing into one of the most modern hospitals in Germany.
The university puts emphasis on intensely taking care of its students, and works on creating a “Students’ Paradise in Jena. (www.studentenparadies.uni-jena.de) Special programmers support students from abroad. When it comes to teaching, Jena University combines tradition and innovation: Apart from medicine, physics, psychology, business studies and economics, or sports, bio and social sciences – all of which are highly ranked – the so-called “smaller subjects”, like for instance caucasiology, Romanian or Indo-Germanic studies, are sustained. The wide range of opportunities for studying at Thuringia’s only classical university shapes its appearance as well as its attitude: to act without limits – interdisciplinary and internationally. Therefore, a clear research profile has been established and will be further developed. Jena University’s current research profile is composed of five priority research areas: Optics, Photonics and Photonic Technologies; Innovative Materials and Technologies; Dynamics of Complex Biological Systems; Laboratory of the Enlightenment; and Individuals and Social Change.
They are completed by three academic cross-sections: Analysis and Management of Complex Systems; Cultural Contexts of Ageing; and Europe’s Origin: Culture and Religion in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages.
Up-and-coming young scientists are well prepared for their careers since they are supported by the Jena Graduate Academy. With that, the important topic of “child care” appears on the university’s agenda. As one of the founders of the “Jena Alliance for Family”, Jena University stands for the compatibility of having children and studying. For this, it has received the Total E-Quality Award. The Friedrich Schiller University is also internationally well-renowned: It is integrated into important networks, like the Coimbra Group, and cooperates with more than 100 universities or academic institutions worldwide. With almost 300 partners within Europe a vivid exchange of students and teachers is taking place.
In 2008 Jena has been awarded the title Germany’s “City of Sciences”. 2008’s events were strongly affected by the university’s activities. And, in the future, the university wants to sustain a strong influence on teaching, research and culture, nationally and internationally.
About Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke as President (Rector) of the University of Jena
President Dr. Klaus Dicke studied Political Science, History and Catholic Theology from 1972 to 1979, and became a research assistant of Philosophy in Universität Tübingen. From 1983 to 1994, he was a lecturer and senior assistant at the Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. He had been Harvard University and United Nations (UN) as an exchange scholar for more than a year. He was promoted as a professor at the University of Jena since April 1995. Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke was a member of the German UNESCO Commission from 1997 to 1998. From 1997 to 1999 and 2003 to 2004, he was a head of the Institute of Political Science Jena. He assumed duty as the President (Rector) of the University of Jena since September 2004.
President Dicke commented that international students in the University of Jena, make up about 10% of student body and most of them are for PhD degree. Regarding to the internationalization, though the undergraduate courses are mostly given in German, however, more and more postgraduate courses have been lectured in English. Notably, University of Jena also has some academic departments to provide the linguistic trainings in German and other foreign languages.
President Lai (賴明詔) commented that NCKU has an outstanding medical school and affiliated teaching hospitals. With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare. NCKU provided so many resources such as advanced national-scale research centers and laboratories to support the teaching and research environment for all the students. Moreover, students graduated from NCKU mostly will possess excellent competence to ensure their career success in Taiwan and in the world. NCKU ranks the 19th worldwide in alternative energy in terms of research papers of distinctive competency, which is the only Taiwanese institution ranked among the top-25 list globally. NCKU has moved 21 places up and ranks the 307th worldwide in comprehensive evaluation, which is only second to National Taiwan University (NTU) among all Taiwanese universities. However, in terms of specific fields, NCKU's College of Engineering exceeds that of NTU and ranks the 30th globally. The Ministry of Education (MOE) allocated the special funding of five year 50 billion NTD (5Y50B) to boost domestic universities to advance at least one field to top-tier status globally. NCKU is totally a comprehensive university.
“We just celebrated the 450th anniversary last year,” said President Dicke. University of Jena is also a comprehensive university with a wide range of professional fields, such as medicine, laws, social sciences and so on. President Lai (賴明詔) expresses his sincere congratulation to President Dicke regarding that the University of Jena’s campus is getting more and more expanded as more buildings, especially in engineering area, are established and inaugurated.
President Dicke is also very interested in the fact that NCKU is so closed to Southern Taiwan Science Park to have very strong strategic partnership. “The environment of Jena is similar to NCKU, and probably we could try to organize and cooperate with each other in the future,” said President Dicke.
“Undergraduate courses in University of Jena are mostly taught in German as for the first language and English as for the second language, however, we will try to provide more courses in Chinese within Jena due to more popularity of Chinese language in the world,” said President Dicke. President Lai (賴明詔) responded that “Taiwan probably is the stepping stone to China for Germany. We will try to provide more chances of student exchange with each other, especially in learning Chinese”.
Regarding to the cooperation field with NCKU and the University of Jena, President Dicke mentioned to sign the collaboration agreement in the future with fields interesting most to both, no matter if in languages or any research areas. President Lai (賴明詔) commented that it would be a good start to have close collaboration in Laws in both universities, such as student exchange, and then expanding it to the fields of science education.
About the University of Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
The information is contained in http://www.uni-jena.de/en/At_a_glance.html.
The Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, founded in 1558, with its 20,000 students distributed over ten different schools leaves its mark on the image of the town. Students of either the university or the University of Applied Sciences make one quarter of the inhabitants of Jena. So, it is all right to say: There is no university in Jena, Jena is a university! Approximately 340 professors and 6,400 members of staff work at university and university hospital, the latter of which keeps developing into one of the most modern hospitals in Germany.
The university puts emphasis on intensely taking care of its students, and works on creating a “Students’ Paradise in Jena. (www.studentenparadies.uni-jena.de) Special programmers support students from abroad. When it comes to teaching, Jena University combines tradition and innovation: Apart from medicine, physics, psychology, business studies and economics, or sports, bio and social sciences – all of which are highly ranked – the so-called “smaller subjects”, like for instance caucasiology, Romanian or Indo-Germanic studies, are sustained. The wide range of opportunities for studying at Thuringia’s only classical university shapes its appearance as well as its attitude: to act without limits – interdisciplinary and internationally. Therefore, a clear research profile has been established and will be further developed. Jena University’s current research profile is composed of five priority research areas: Optics, Photonics and Photonic Technologies; Innovative Materials and Technologies; Dynamics of Complex Biological Systems; Laboratory of the Enlightenment; and Individuals and Social Change.
They are completed by three academic cross-sections: Analysis and Management of Complex Systems; Cultural Contexts of Ageing; and Europe’s Origin: Culture and Religion in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages.
Up-and-coming young scientists are well prepared for their careers since they are supported by the Jena Graduate Academy. With that, the important topic of “child care” appears on the university’s agenda. As one of the founders of the “Jena Alliance for Family”, Jena University stands for the compatibility of having children and studying. For this, it has received the Total E-Quality Award. The Friedrich Schiller University is also internationally well-renowned: It is integrated into important networks, like the Coimbra Group, and cooperates with more than 100 universities or academic institutions worldwide. With almost 300 partners within Europe a vivid exchange of students and teachers is taking place.
In 2008 Jena has been awarded the title Germany’s “City of Sciences”. 2008’s events were strongly affected by the university’s activities. And, in the future, the university wants to sustain a strong influence on teaching, research and culture, nationally and internationally.
About Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke as President (Rector) of the University of Jena
President Dr. Klaus Dicke studied Political Science, History and Catholic Theology from 1972 to 1979, and became a research assistant of Philosophy in Universität Tübingen. From 1983 to 1994, he was a lecturer and senior assistant at the Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel. He had been Harvard University and United Nations (UN) as an exchange scholar for more than a year. He was promoted as a professor at the University of Jena since April 1995. Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke was a member of the German UNESCO Commission from 1997 to 1998. From 1997 to 1999 and 2003 to 2004, he was a head of the Institute of Political Science Jena. He assumed duty as the President (Rector) of the University of Jena since September 2004.
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