The Liaison Office promotes cooperation between the University Alliance Ruhr and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and strengthens the international visibility of the Ruhr region as a centre of science.
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The Ruhr University Bochum, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen have been cooperating strategically and successfully in the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) since 2007. With over 120,000 students and around 1,300 professors, the UA Ruhr is one of the largest and most productive scientific locations in Germany.
To strengthen international cooperation, the UA Ruhr maintains three liaison offices: the Liaison Office Eastern Europe/Central Asia (EECA) is responsible for cooperation in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, the Liaison Office New York is responsible for North America, and the Liaison Office São Paulo represents the UA Ruhr in Latin America.
The Liaison Office EECA represents the three partner universities of the UA Ruhr in its target region, increases the visibility of the Ruhr area as an innovative research and science location, and promotes sustainable academic exchange between East and West.
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Summer School 2025 by dniPROnrw and new collaborations
From July 7 to 11, 2025, the first German-Ukrainian summer school took place in the Ruhr region as part of the DniPRONrw project. Over 50 participants—students and teachers from Ukraine and Germany—came together to exchange ideas about language, culture, education, and current social challenges.
The summer school was officially opened with a video message from NRW Science Minister Ina Brandes. She emphasized the special significance of the project: “North Rhine-Westphalia stands by Ukraine today more than ever. With DniPRONrw, we are sending a strong signal of solidarity and reconstruction.”
A special highlight was the ceremonial signing of a memorandum of understanding on July 7, 2025, between the University Alliance Ruhr and two Ukrainian partner universities: Oles Honchar State University and the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies. With this agreement, the three Ruhr universities reaffirm their close cooperation with Ukraine and send a clear signal for joint education and research initiatives.
In terms of content, the summer school offered a diverse program of workshops, lectures, excursions, and interdisciplinary discussions. Topics such as multilingualism, digital teaching, war experiences, and resilience were the focus. Personal exchange between participants also played a central role and made the summer school a place of active international cooperation.
DniPRONrw is a joint project of the three universities of the Ruhr University Alliance – Ruhr University Bochum, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Technical University of Dortmund – in cooperation with the two Ukrainian universities in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The region has been a partner of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia for many years. The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia with 100,000 euros.
The summer school is an important milestone within the project: it exemplifies sustainable networking and knowledge transfer between Germany and Ukraine – and the conviction that science builds bridges, especially in times of upheaval.
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