Last summer, in close collaboration with the Passau-based Studio Weichselbaumer, a new promotional video was created for the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in International Cultural and Business Studies. With a great deal of dedication, creativity, and team spirit, we succeeded in providing authentic insights into the KuWi program and capturing its unique atmosphere.
The result: A lively and engaging video that impressively showcases the program’s extraordinary diversity, interdisciplinarity and quality and aims to inspire future students. The video has already been published on the university website and on YouTube, inviting viewers to get to know the program firsthand.
We would like to extend our special thanks to everyone involved in the production, including the students who volunteered as actors and extras for the filming. In particular, we would like to thank the lead actress, Jessica Radziwill, for her tremendous dedication. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to the kuwi network and the Neuburger Gesprächskreis for the financial support that made this video possible in the first place.
The University of Passau’s Teaching Innovation Fund is supporting a new project that aims to develop intercultural welcome formats for international students. The initiative is designed to ease the transition into student life for newcomers from abroad and to strengthen an open and diverse university culture.
The welcome formats are being designed and implemented within the framework of service learning by students specializing in intercultural communication. In this way, participants can directly apply their theoretical knowledge in practice while actively contributing to the internationalization of the university.
The project is embedded in a dedicated project seminar. Here, students have the opportunity to obtain both a project certificate and a seminar certificate – while gaining valuable experience in project management, intercultural collaboration, and civic engagement.
The University of Passau wants to realize the great founder potential of Passau's students and develop into a real entrepreneurial university. Therefore, on September 1, 2020 the project: Passau - The Entrepreneurial Campus (PATEC) launched, supported by the BMWi program EXIST-Potentiale for over five years with almost two million Euros. The project aims to raise awareness, connect, and consult students about starting their own business in order to establish an active and vivid start-up culture at the University of Passau, especially targeting students of the humanities, social and cultural sciences as well as female students.
In addition to a sustainable and digital start-up hub, an intercultural start-up hub will be established under the direction of the Chair of Intercultural Communication and the research assistant and PhD student Constanze Ruesga Rath. Through the Intercultural start-up hub, aspects of culture, internationality and interculturality will be integrated into traditional elements of entrepreneurship, which nowadays are also indispensable for start-ups.
Next to the Chair for Intercultural Communication, the Transfer Center and various chairs/institutes of all faculties of the University of Passau are involved in PATEC. Furthermore, a network consisting of alumni founders, the INN.KUBATOR Passau, the BayStartUP, the Hans Lindner Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Niederbayern, the HWK Niederbayern-Oberpfalz, experienced coaches and mentors as well as seed-investors will be established to support the students in their start-up projects.
Under the following link you will find further information: https://www.uni-passau.de/bereiche/presse/pressemeldungen/meldung/detail/bund-foerdert-gruendungskultur-projekt-der-universitaet-passau/
