TU9 Universities inform in Brazil about studies and research in engineering and natural science in Germany

TU9 universities are participating at the "Promotion Tour 2008" in São Paulo and other cities with a common booth

19.03.2008 - In Brazil the TU9 universities are participating at the “Promotion Tour 2008” with a common booth.  Stops are in the cities of São Paulo (29.03.2008), Caxias Do Sul (31.03.2008), Porto Alegre (01.04.2008), Curitiba (02.04.2008) and Florianópolis (04.04.2008).

 

“The Brazilian universities have got a high level of teaching and research in engineering and natural science”, says Professor Horst Hippler, president of TU9 and Rector of the Universität Karlsruhe (TH). “We would like to attract young people to continue their studies in these fields with a master or to find their way into research as a doctorate student at a TU9 university.”

 

Visits at German Schools are planned

 

Furthermore TU9 student advisors are visiting German Schools on location to answer any students’ questions : Scheduled are informative meetings at the Colégio Humboldt and at the Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro; both of them are located in São Paulo.

 

The fair attendance is taking place in cooperation with the TU9 partner GATE-Germay.

Here you can find TU9 on the “Promotion Tour 2008” in Brazil:

• São Paulo (29.03.2008, 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Goethe Institute, Rua Lisboa 974, Pinheiros)
• Caxias Do Sul (31.03.2008, 3.30 p.m. to 7.30 Uhr at the „Centro de Convivência” and in the aula „Sala Forense” of the Universidade de Caxias do Sul [UCS], Cidade Universitária)
• Porto Alegre (01.04.2008, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the „Salão de Festas” and the „Sala Pharion” of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
• Curitiba (02.04.2008, 4 p.m. to7 p.m. in the court and the aula of the Setor de Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas der Universidade Federal do Paraná)
• Florianópolis (04.04.2008, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Centro Tecnológico of the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina)

 
TU9 information on studies in the WWW:

http://www.tu9.de/studium TU9 information on studies (German)
http://www.tu9.de/studies TU9 information on studies (Englisch)

About TU9

TU9 is the network of the leading Institutes of Technology in Germany:  RWTH Aachen, TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, Universität Hannover, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), TU München, Universität Stuttgart.

At TU9 universities about 204.000 students are registered, that are about ten percent of all German students.

In Germany 53 per cent of all engineers with a university degree come from TU9 universities. About 59 per cent of all doctorate degrees in engineering are earned at TU9 universities.

According to the  Federal Statistical Office the TU9 universities achieved top placements in their ranking on third-party funding: The nine TU9 members raised in 2005 a total of 739 million Euro. That are about 20 per cent of all third-party funding raised by German universities.