“Understanding Germany and European Union”系列讲座通知

系列讲座名称：Understanding Germany and European Union 了解德国与欧盟

讲座人：Dr. Reinhold Luecker

讲座描述：

The European Union(EU)  is one of the strongest macro-areas in economy and trade. If we want understand the importance of the internal peace-making function of European unification we must have a look in history first. The creation of the EU is a unique attempt to overcome nationalist rivalries and develop enormous economic strengths through trade without borders, rising productivity and living conditions in all sub-areas, including peripheries. Monetary union and last but not least political union constitute elementary pillars of the EU. However it remains a constant and very actual question of how power is balanced between national States and the EU and how this unique experiment functions in the global world. A final question is how the rest of Europe and the EU will cooperate in the near future. For Chinese students coming to Germany we will introduce to basic knowledge of intercultural communication in order to better understand Europeans and Germans and starting at the best the stay for studying and doing research in a German university

德国资深教授带你从宏观角度了解欧洲及德国社会、经济、教育等各方面。讲座共分五场，面向全校同学开放。

讲座内容详情见：Understanding Germany and European Union_contents of lectures.docx

教师简介:

Dr. Reinhold Luecker, born 1951,  has been Director of the International Office at Ulm University for 25 years. He studied geography, economy and roman languages in Germany and France and finally did PhD in 1985 at University of Tuebingen where he joined a research group focusing upon Latin America. For six years je taught economic geography as assistant professor and did basic research on economic and regional development processes mainly of agricultural modernization in rural areas of Brazil. In 1992 he took over the position as Director of the International Office at Ulm University and put the focus on internationalization of teaching and research, bringing the internationalization strategy forward. He pushed the creation of English taught master programs and relevant international exchange programs with all continents. But China revealed being the most promising target country; mainly cooperation between SEU and UUlm proved highest potential. Dr.Luecker is one of the founding persons of German University in Cairo (GUC) and managed numerous funded exchange projects between GUC and German universities. During one decade he has been teaching students in the International Summer Program of Ulm University about Europe and Germany.

Email: Reinhold.luecker@alumni.uni-ulm.de 

注:1、该系列讲座可作为2017级吴健雄学院特色精品人文选听环节，聆听一场讲座（除选听）并提交合格报告,可作为系列讲座（满10场获2学分）中的一场。

2、该系列讲座同时可作为全英文系列研讨课，同学须聆听所有讲座（5场）并提交一篇全英文研究论文。