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German Language and Intercultural Studies EU Campus Program 2024 has successfully completed!

From March 1 (Friday) to August 8 (Thursday), 2024, German Language and Intercultural Studies EU Campus Program 2024 was held at Doshisha EU Campus at Tübingen University. 15 students from Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies participated in the program.

Right after the program started in March, the students took intensive German courses for Doshisha students including several field trips and an elementary school visit, which contributed greatly for improvement of their German proficiency. From the middle of April, they started to study German language by proficiency level together with UT international students from various countries and regions, and experienced a diverse of intercultural communication. In addition to German language classes, the students deepened their understanding of German and EU society and culture through Joint Seminar- Intercultural Studies classes with UT students from Department of Japanese Studies and special lectures by Doshisha faculty members on EU Campus.

In extracurricular activities, the Buddy Program was implemented also in 2024, where Doshisha students and UT Japanese Studies students are paired up as a TANDEM partner. While learning each other’s language, the students sometimes went beyond the framework of a "Buddy Program" and deepened exchanges on and off campus, either individually or in groups. It is supposed that a part of Buddy students of the Japanese Studies would go study abroad at Doshisha from Spring 2025. Therefore, we are expecting that their friendship would continue and bloom up next year in Kyoto.  

Lastly but not at least, we could not realize this program in such a successful way without diligent effort and great contribution by the relevant persons and institutes of UT, especially by “Deutsch als Fremdsprache” and “Department of Japanese Studies.”  We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for all involved in UT for this wonderful program.

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