Saarland University

The University of the Saarland (short: Saarland University, pseudo- Latin name Universitas Saraviensis ) is the only Saarland University. Your seat she has in Saarbrücken and Homburg.

It was founded in 1948 with French support in the then politically semi-autonomous and economically allied with France Saarland. It emerged from the first of the Nancy- Université affiliated Institut d' Études de Supérieures Hombourg; the first institute of the Saarland University was opened as a branch of the University of Nancy in Homburg on March 8, 1947. Thanks to its bilingual faculty, the University of the Saarland united German and French educational traditions and owned since its founding an international profile in 1950 with the proclamation on the " European University " and in 1951 with the establishment of the European Institute as the "crown and symbol " of the University 's came to evidence.

The Saarbrücken Campus, whose centerpiece is the former below- barracks, and its surroundings provide under the name "university" its own district within Saarbrücken district of St. Johann dar. Currently around 19,300 students are enrolled, the proportion of foreign students is about 16 percent. At the University of approximately 1,500 people ( academic staff and teaching staff ) are employed. In addition to around 1,500 student assistants come to this.

Nine graduates have the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft get when they were working in the Saarland.

It is a semester fee in the amount of 182 Euros will be charged, which includes a semester ticket, the local public transport can be used Saarland far. From the winter semester 2007 /08 to 2010 summer semester tuition fees in the amount of 300 euros was collected ( for the first two semesters ) or 500 € ( from the third college semester). However, these were abolished after the parliamentary elections of 2009 the resulting Jamaica Coalition for undergraduate (Bachelor) and master's degree programs again. For seniors, students fall semester fees of 400 to 500 euros.

Courses of Study

The courses offered by the Saarland University is supported by eight faculties:

  • Law and Faculty of Economics: with special European orientation ( inter alia with the Europa-Institut and the French law degree ). The European Institute offers two post-graduate courses. In jurisprudential branch can be in addition to the basic courses, one or more of the following priority areas occupy: European Economic Law, Foreign Trade, European Management, European media law, European human rights protection. After successful completion of the one-year study program the graduates of the title "Master of Law ( LL.M.) " is awarded. In economics branch of the title of "Master of Business Administration (MBA) " has been awarded since 1990. MBA program. Other focal points in the field of information technologies ( legal computer science and business computer science ). As part of a double degree provides the Centre franco- allemand juridique the opportunity to acquire the French Licence degree in French law. In addition, the Faculty offers the Diploma program " Business Administration " and the Bachelor study program " Business and Law " at.
  • Medical School: biomedical focus (among collaborative research centers and clinical research groups ), the University Hospital is located on the campus in Homburg.
  • Humanities I -III: cross-faculty cooperation in the field of cognitive science ( psychologists, philosophers and linguists working here, inter alia, in the context of a collaborative research center with computer scientists ). The range of literary and cultural studies developed, inter alia, a new basis for cultural comparison, which is also, for example, the study of border regions as a focus involving. In the European context exist within the philosophical faculties of the University of Saarland various simple and multilingual programs that help the University to intercultural and international standing and make it a European university. The France - center summarizes all cross-curricular activities that relate to France, together, and thus emphasizes the particular importance of France and also the position of the Saarland as a mediator between France and Germany in the European context.

A special feature of the art for Speech Science and Speech Training dar. Overall, there are only six German universities that offer Speech Science and Speech Training in Bachelor's and Master's programs. The University of the Saarland is one of them.

  • Natural Sciences and Technology I- III: with interdepartmental cooperation, inter alia, in the field of new materials ( physicists and chemists working under a collaborative research center with material scientists together) and new cross-faculty priorities in the fields of mechatronics, computer and communication technology, computer science, bioinformatics, Visual Computing and nanobiotechnology. A variety of international contacts and priorities in the areas of applied research offer motivated students excellent training and development opportunities. As part of the Germany-wide Excellence Initiative both requests the University, she has worked together with DFKI and the two Max Planck Institutes have been approved. In the next 5 years, € 40 million in funding in the construction and operation of the Cluster of Excellence " Multimodal Computing and Interaction " and the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science will flow.

There are also study-related offers. Among other things:

  • The Language Centre offers a variety of languages ​​with international UNIcert graduation for students of all disciplines.

Collaborative Research Centres

Currently, there are at Saarland three funded by the German Research Foundation Collaborative Research:

  • SFB 894: Calcium signaling: molecular mechanisms and integrative functions
  • SFB / TR 14 - AVACS: Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems (together with Oldenburg and Freiburg)
  • SFB 1027 Physical Modeling of non-equilibrium processes in biological systems

Excellence Initiative

Currently there are at Saarland two funded by the Excellence Initiative Projects:

  • M2CI - Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction
  • Graduate School of Computer Science

Leibniz Prize winners

The DFG awards annually the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to outstanding German scientists, thus acknowledging their work. The award is the highest honor awarded in scientific award of the DFG and of 2.5 million euros ( 1.55 million euros to 2006 ) associated prize money to be used to the project. The following researchers at the University of the Saarland were awarded the Leibniz Prize:

  • Günter Hotz, Kurt Mehlhorn and Wolfgang Paul - computer science
  • Herbert Gleiter - Materials Science
  • Michael Veith - Inorganic Chemistry
  • Johannes Buchmann - Theoretical computer science
  • Manfred Pinkal - Computational Linguistics
  • Hans -Peter Seidel - Computer Graphics
  • Joachim Weickert - image processing / computer science

Research environment

In the environment of the University of the Saarland, renowned research institutions have settled. These include, among others, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ( DFKI), the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing ( IZFP ) and Biomedical Engineering ( IBMT) in St. Ingbert, the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, the International Conference and Research Center for computer science in Dagstuhl Castle, and the Max Planck Institute for computer science (MPI) and for software systems.

Libraries

The library system at Saarland University has two layers. Besides the central Saarland University and State Library 58 still exist on campus distributed institute libraries. In addition, the library operates three documents server.

The SULB provides its approximately 10,000 active borrowers with literature from all subjects. According to its collection mandate as a regional library, it also provides on almost everything for Saarland and the Saar- Lor- Lux region. The book collection currently comprises around 1.4 million units. In 2006, still could be funded more than 6,000 magazine subscriptions, but their number in recent years in the face of price trends sharply. In addition, new media play such as electronic journals and databases an increasingly important role. As part of the funded by the German Research Foundation Special Collections she manages the Department of Psychology. It also maintains a branch Library of Medicine at the University Hospital in Homburg. After the renovation of the former books tower and its conversion into offices and the construction of an underground magazine book all use area will be renovated and modernized at the time.

The institute libraries are usually operated as reference libraries.

Trivia and Facts

  • Orga - TV is the student television university of the University. During the semester, students send in the context of deepening multiple media and communications management every Wednesday at 18:18 clock live over the Internet.
  • The Saarland University maintains numerous partnerships with foreign universities around the world. With a foreign population of about 17 %, it is one of the most international universities in Germany.
  • The high school sports is available to all members of the university open and provides for both the width and the top sports an extensive range. Its proximity to the Hermann- Neuberger - school sports are a variety of world-class sports facilities available.
  • The university offers for students also serve in the orchestra, choir or big band. The semester is usually concluded with a concert to some events, such as the semester opening in the main auditorium steps on the big band of the university.
  • In 1965, Rabbi Benyamin Barslai the first Jewish student community at a German university after the Second World War
  • On campus, there is the 2.5 -hectare botanical garden of the University of the Saarland
  • The original and cast collection of the Archaeological Institute can be visited by appointment.
  • Since the summer semester 2008, the University of the Saarland a unique study program offering the certificate Europaicum. This is an additional qualification with a focus on Europe, whose acquisition is accompanied by learning about Europe -oriented research and professional fields.
  • Children's University: The University of the Saarland offers each semester lectures for children from 8 to 14 years. This answer professors of the university questions on exciting topics of everyday life
  • Theatre Group: Saarland University has a total of five student theater groups. The German theater groups belongs Thunis and the theater per se, but the is not currently active. There are also foreign-language theater groups: ACT (English), Le Pont (French) and Los Mutantes ( Spanish).

Alumni - known teachers, students and staff

  • Susanne Albers (born 1965 ), computer science professor
  • Peter Altmaier (* 1958), politician ( CDU)
  • Karl- Otto Apel (* 1922), philosopher
  • François Bertemes (* 1958), German - Luxembourgish prehistorians
  • Christian Boehringer (born 1965 ), entrepreneur
  • Peter Bofinger (born 1954 ), economist and member of the Advisory Council on the Assessment of economic development
  • Barbara Bredow ( b. 1937 ), artist
  • Ralf Dahrendorf (1929-2009), German - British sociology professor, politician and journalist
  • Franz Josef Degenhardt (1931-2011), lawyer and songwriter
  • Jürgen Domes (1932-2001), political scientist
  • Dieter Dörr ( b. 1952 ), lawyer
  • Günter Endruweit ( born 1939 ), sociologist
  • Willi Erzgräber (1926-2001), Anglist
  • Jürgen W. Falter ( born 1944 ), political scientist
  • Norbert Gutenberg ( b. 1951 ), Professor of Speech Science and Speech Training
  • Gotthold Hasenhüttl ( born 1933), theologian
  • Winfried Hassemer (1940-2014), criminal law scholars
  • Thorsten Havener ( b. 1972 ), Mentalist
  • Helmle Eugen (1927-2000), writer and literary translator
  • Martin Hoffmann ( born 1959 ), sat.1 program manager, director of the Berlin Philharmonic
  • Stefan Hufner (1935-2013), experimental physicist
  • Karl Kaiser ( b. 1934 ), political scientist
  • Wolfgang Kermer (* 1935), art educator and art historian
  • Reinhard Klimmt (* 1942), politician ( SPD)
  • Alfons Kolling (1922-2003), archaeologist and curator country
  • Hermann Krings (1913-2004), philosopher
  • Christian Graf von Krockow (1927-2002), a political scientist and writer
  • Jutta Jacob Kruger ( b. 1963 ), lawyer and politician (Alliance 90/Grüne )
  • Karl -Ludwig Kunz ( b. 1947 ), legal scientist and criminologist
  • Oskar Lafontaine (* 1943), politician ( Left Party )
  • Robert Leicht (* 1944), journalist and writer
  • Wilfried Loth ( b. 1948 ), political scientists and historians
  • Heiko Maas (born 1966 ), politician ( SPD)
  • Maihofer Werner (1918-2009), jurist and politician ( FDP)
  • Alfred Werner Maurer ( b. 1945 ), architect, archaeologist, art historian excavation director Mumbaqat
  • Günter Menges (1929-1983), economist and statistician
  • Guy Michaud (1911-2006), French Romance
  • Dietz -Rüdiger Moser (1939-2010), popular historian, literary historian and musicologist
  • Peter Müller ( * 1955), politician ( CDU)
  • Bernhard Nebel ( born 1956 ), computer science professor
  • Helmut M. Niegemann (* 1947), education and media psychologist
  • Ralf Peter ( b. 1968 ), counter-tenor or soprano
  • Dirk Peter Dorff (born 1966 ), literary scholar and writer
  • August-Wilhelm Scheer ( born 1941 ), business information and business
  • Claus -Peter Schnorr ( b. 1943 ), professor of mathematics and computer science
  • Joerg Reinhardt ( born 1956 ), CEO of Bayer HealthCare
  • Herbert Schneider ( born 1941 ), musicologist
  • Juergen Schreier ( b. 1948 ), politician ( CDU)
  • Ottmar Schreiner (1946-2013), politician ( SPD)
  • Jochen Senf (* 1942), actor and playwright
  • Paul Mustard (1915-1998), economist, university professor and politician, Saarland state ministers
  • Lutz Stavenhagen (1940-1992), politician ( CDU)
  • Wolfgang Stützel (1925-1987), economist
  • Bernhard mush (* 1962), jurist and politician ( SPD)
  • Uwe Wesel ( born 1933), legal scholars
  • Günter Wöhe (1924-2007), economist
  • Michael Wolff son ( b. 1947 ), historian and political scientist
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