Only a little pope.

"Be-ne-det-to" chanted the Catholic youth at the inauguration of the German pope. But since the infighting to Piusbruderschaft growing doubts among theology students at Benedict XVI. Open protest but nobody dares - for fear of reprisals by the church system.

 

"We were stunned and shocked," says Raphael smoke. The 23-year-old Catholic student from Tübingen, the fellows of the Cusanuswerk. The devout students met the pope's decision in late January, four bishops of the rather conservative Piusbruderschaft back into the Catholic Church want to record, including a Holocaust denier, deep into Mark. The Cusaner had on Tuesday in a public statement calling the Second Vatican Council should "not be put into perspective." With the council, the Catholic Church in the sixties anti-Semitic passages from the liturgy and eradicated the Modern opened, the brothers, Pius rejected from the council so far.

After the Vatican after a long hesitation, the Holocaust denier Richard Williamson on Thursday to withdraw his statements calling for the reigns Cusanern but "great relief," said Rauch blogs ONLINE. Smoke is safe, that the Curia in Rome only by those who are not expected storm of protest aufgerüttelt was: "Without the public resistance would have this statement from the Vatican is not given."

Rome and the base: two pairs of shoes

In Catholic folklore states that long: No matter what makes Rome - we remain Catholic. A rift between the Vatican and the personal experience of young people for generations. The Second Vatican Council was a major step towards greater closeness between Rome and the base. "For a youth association, it is the A and O, that we can shape our church," says Lena Blömacher. The 25-year-old studied pedagogy in Cologne. In her spare time she volunteers in the leadership of the Catholic parish boys (KJG). "In the association's work are our highest values of democracy and participation," says Blömacher. Also one can forgive them. "Reconciliation is important, and even the Pope as head should seek reconciliation. But the people who have made mistakes must also repent."

Alexander steal, KJG-youth leader from Leverkusen, looks similar. "Basically, I find this very well if you breach the hand." But steal is also skeptical. "I do not believe that the Piusbruderschaft now reversed, and of their conservative on a liberal umschwenkt line." Josefine Echterhoff, also head of Catholic youth from Cologne, doubts whether the Pious Brotherhood of serious repentance is in a position: "It is about honesty. If we honestly repent, then it is clear that one back into the community can be integrated. " Until now recognizes the 20-year-old student, but this remorse for Piusbrüdern not. Your Association colleagues is equally difficult to judge. You can only speculate what goes on behind the thick walls of the Vatican in the last few days happened. Lena Blömacher says: "I feel like someone who is directed, without the evidence to have seen. And I do not like."

Anonymous for fear of the power of the Church

Many young Catholics are afraid not only the Orient, but also fear that they are so even before the judges bring. Among the theology students beat the waves of the discussion currently high, but hardly anyone wants to be mentioned by name.

The Catholic Church has power, and here you can feel it clearly. None of the prospective teacher wants to risk Religion, after studying the teaching of religious instruction not to receive. "Retrogressive" Hans * Elke called the behavior of the pope: "I think he is the consequences of his actions could do." Your Kommilitonin * Sabine Miller is equally outraged. "Personally, I find the denial of the Vatican II just as bad as the denial of the Shoah," she says. From the church, it will still not turn away. "I will Unjoin definitely not. Politically church was the appearance of the Pope is not happy, but that is life at the base but does not really change."

Anne Pohlmann *, a student from Dortmund, the situation is trying to differentiate. "Through the rehabilitation of Pius brothers, it seems as if the Church of ultra-right, and as if the denial of the Holocaust with the consent of the pope will be tolerated. That makes it difficult of course, on his faith to stand."

But what would have faith without hope? "Significantly, I think that the public, whether in politics or the church, clearly positioned." Even the young Catholic these days is important that there is a difference between the high lords in Rome and the religious base. "I hope that the masses can distinguish between the views of the Vatican and the Christian community lived actively working." After Pope euphoria
as yet in 2005 no longer sounds.

Everything just a communication range?

"We need another permit us to understand," says Nathanael Liminiski. The 23-year-old is currently difficult, because
he represents as a spokesman for the generation of Benedict, "a youth network that the" We are Pope "jubilation around the World Youth Day 2005 has emerged.

Liminski sees the fiasco to the repealed excommunication of the Holocaust deniers Williamson primarily as a communication Range: "The bishops and the Vatican have to be media-political advice. We must look at the realities of this world with. This includes the laws of media company." His suggestion: "If the withdrawal of excommunication published, then in parallel to a communiqué, which explains what is actually excommunication."

In addition, Liminski support by the German Bishops missing. "The term 'generation Benedict', we expect executives more than just the expression of their emotional state."

Liminski hopes that the church from the disaster strengthened goes out, and "own ranks now closer together." But on what basis this interaction is to be back, says he does not. Clearly for the representatives of the "Generation Benedict": "Only Rome as anti-identity is not enough." In these dark times for the Curia in Rome, it seems as if Liminski like something from the exuberance of the World Youth Day, when he says sadly: "The damage is great. The proceeds of the World Youth Day are being broken."

THE CASE WILLIAMSON: CHRONICLE OF A CRISIS

November 2008: The Tell-Interview

In an interview with a Swedish television Richard Williamson denies the gassing of Jews during the Third Reich: "I think there were no gas chambers, yes."

19. January 2009: The blogs reported

The blog reported that before the broadcast on the television interview Williamson.

21. January: Williamson may return home

Broadcast will be two days later, on 21 January. On the same day, Benedict writes in his decision to lift the excommunication.

22. January: Italy's Press will be closely

On Thursday reported the Italian daily "Il Giornale" on the decree.

23. January: The prosecutor identified

On Friday, reports the Catholic news agency KNA, the Regensburger Prosecutor was investigating Pius Bishop Williamson because of hatred. The message is still on the same day taken up by Vatican Radio, as a message sent to their own Web page.

24. January: "Restoration of Unity"?

On Saturday, the pope officially announced, four bishops of the Piusbruderschaft back into the Catholic Church want to record. Lombardi, Vatican spokesman welcomed the "important step towards a complete restoration of the unity of the Catholic Church.

26. January: "inconceivable act of provocation"

The debate runs hot. The Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, Benedict described the decision as a "virtually incomprehensible act of provocation". The German Bishops' Conference distanced itself from Williamson. The Vice-President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Heinz-Wilhelm Brockmann, defended the move as an attempt of the Pope, "more unity in the church built."

28. January: Benedict XVI. condemns Holocaust denial

Pope Benedict XVI. condemns the denial of the Holocaust. He assured the Jews of his "complete solidarity is not debatable."

29. January: "Holocaust deniers deny the Christian faith"

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said, who deny the Holocaust, "which denies the Christian faith itself." "And that is even more serious when it comes from the mouth of a priest or a bishop comes."

29. January: Cardinal asserts ignorance

Curia Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos assured in the preparation of the Decree, nothing of the controversial TV interview by Williamson knew it. Hoyos had negotiations with the Levebrianern before the lifting of excommunication led. The Central Council of Jews in Germany, cut off the dialogue with the Catholic Church from the time being.

30. January: Williamson apologized - for "inconvenience"

The Pope appoints the ultra-conservative priest Gerhard Wagner for the Bishop of Linz. Bishop Richard Williamson, the pope apologized for the inconvenience and problems ".

31. January: Israeli minister threatens the Vatican

The Israeli Minister for Religious Affairs, Cohen Jizchak threatens the blogs with the severance of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Vatican.

1. February: Theologian leaves the Catholic Church

The renowned Belgian theology and ethics professor Jean-Pierre Wils gives his resignation from the Catholic Church known.

2. February: Piusbrüder require more power in the Vatican

The Piusbrüder require more power in the Vatican. Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais says the Italian newspaper "La Stampa": He and his supporters do not want to with the resumption in the Church of Rome satisfied. "We will not modify our position, but Rome proselytized."

3. February: The chancellor, criticized the Pope

Angela Merkel calls on the Pope to clarify on. Benedict XVI. needed in the debate about the Piusbruderschaft clear that there is no denial of the Holocaust must give. This was from their point of view "has not been done properly."

4. February: The Vatican responded

The Catholic Church calls to Williamson, his theories to revoke - otherwise it could not erzkonservative Briton again be used as a bishop.

* Names changed

German-Egyptian student arrested in Cairo.

He demonstrated against the war in the Gaza Strip, now he is at an undisclosed location on hold. Philip Rizk The student, 26, tried with movies, demos, and his blog to create awareness for Palestinians - he was now to doom?

 

The Middle East conflict and the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip, with no other topic, the student and blogger Philip Rizk, 26, as so busy with this. Two years he has lived the Gaza Strip, a film and journalists, who place themselves in front of a picture of the situation wanted. He has helped medicines in the Gaza Strip to create a blog, and he operated, "tabulagaza".

Jeannette Rizk
jeannette Rizk

Now Philip Rizk been arrested in Egypt - because of his political engagement, as his friends and his family suspect.

A little bit, it sounds like an agent story, what his sister Jeanette and political activist Salma Said tell: As with Philip Rizk Said and other friends in the night from Friday to Saturday with a demonstration returned to Cairo, they were stopped by the police and for several hours has been fixed. Finally, officers were targeted after Rizk asked him in a minibus with no license plate and had them done there. His friends were from the police have been prevented from the car to follow.

"We knew not only where Philip," said his sister blogs ONLINE. There is currently no formal indictment, he was not been charged. "But he is likely to become loud and uncomfortable," she says. Meanwhile, he was the "headquarters of the National Security Service" has been, she says, "that we have today from unofficial sources, the National Security experience."

A confirmation of this date, there is not. A spokesman for the Egyptian Interior Ministry said it was no reports on the arrest before. The Foreign Office in Berlin confirmed by the fact that the case is known and the message was spot on. "We strive to educate," said a spokesman.

Philip Rizk is German-Egyptian, he has dual citizenship. His father is from Egypt, his mother from Germany. He was born in Cyprus, raised in Cairo, where he visited the German school. In order to study philosophy, he went for a semester in Freiburg, and then with a scholarship in the USA, Wheaton. Now he studies Studys Middle East at the American University in Cairo. Currently he works on his master's work, he is also dealing with the Gaza conflict.

In interviews and in his blog Rizk has repeatedly written about Gaza. His last entry dated Wednesday, 4 February. There, he reported rumors that Egypt access to the refugee camp and the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip for journalists and doctors have blocked.

With the demonstration on Friday he wanted along with activists from Spain, Britain, the United States and Poland on the situation in the Gaza Strip attention. "Our march is a reminder of the ongoing suffering in Palestine," it quoted the website of the newspaper "Daily News Egypt on Friday.

Students expect from Bafög offices.

Chemnitz hui, Marburg pfui: Nationwide, students rated Bafög offices - and the medium to miserable grades distributed. Friendly is not all advisers, and some maintain an pampigen clay. But most students want a fleet of processing their requests.

 

"Low latency, assistance outside the opening times, humanity - there is little, what the Bafög Office Chemnitz could still improve." If the employees of the Studentenwerk Chemnitz-Zwickau this sentence is not even sealed, it is hardly something to add. He comes from the "Student Barometer 2008". In the nationwide survey on blogs ONLINE involved approximately 5000 students.

Bafög Offices: Top Ten 08

 
Location
Grade
Trend

1
Chemnitz
2.34

2
Göttingen
2.85

3
Casting
2.96

4
Greifswald
2.97

5
Freiburg
3.01

6
Osnabrück
3.09

7
Potsdam
3.14

8
Frankfurt / Oder
3.15
  --

9
Dresden
3.27

10
Magdeburg
3.30

Two months Aachener pollster surveyed by the team Steffenhagen students who have student loans relate, related, or whose application is still running. Topic: How satisfied are you with your student loans office, as it works with the advice?

Like 2006 and 2007, participants judged fairly hard. Only four Studentenwerke forgave them after the traditional school grading scale with a two grades before the comma. A proper dose received praise Bafög offices in Chemnitz (Leaders with 2.34), Göttingen, Gießen and Greifswald.

For casting a participant wrote: "The consultants were also times in a empathize." When this student but then moved to Leipzig, everything was different: "I had the feeling that something to ask what I had no right." And: "Sometimes a little explanation would help already."

Louise Heymans
25 years old, the donkeys Bafög Office have money, sometimes painfully slow

For good explanations is a focus in Chemnitz, already on the homepage. Immediately above is a banal, but everyday insight to students: "Study costs money." This sentence, the employees of the Office Bafög internalized. And offer to be an
slim five handout so that students of the cliffs Bafög application safely circumnavigate. One of the first tips: "Make sure your timely application."

The Chemnitzer heed what the bureaucratic monster of the Federal Education Act calls for: The applicant needs to know what and when and in what order to do this. A 20-year-old students, who in his life with little legal documents and forms to create was, it can easily fail. "Many students come with a semi and then frustrated, because of their own expectations," says Achim Meyer at Heyde, Secretary General of the Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW).

"Employees are unmotivated and do not help"

This paper is not evil war that will explain the Chemnitzer haar small, but concise and understandable, how much you as a student, for example, to earn it and in which box the numbers and amounts are entered.

Bafög Offices: Flop Ten 08

 
Location
Grade
Trend

31
Stuttgart
4.03

32
Lake
4.05

33
Heidelberg
4.08

34
Bochum
4.14

34
Munich
4.14

35
Mannheim
4.24

36
Oberfranken
4.27
  --

37
Frankfurt / Main
4.33

38
Dortmund
4.51

39
Marburg
4.56

Experts from the Office for an easy exercise, one might think. But deep in the west, at the University of Dortmund, with 20,000 students well, the service seems poorly thought developed. "The employees are unmotivated, do not help and will only say what forms are missing," writes a frustrated applicants from Dortmund.

The Bafög experts there were probably chronically congested, is a fellow student in mind. "In Dortmund, it would help even more clerks to be" - then there could be someone on the telephone hotline answer, he suggested. Note for the Dortmunder Bafög Office: 4.51.

Often only a weak service

Worse this year was just the student loans department in Marburg, the note 4.10 in the previous year on the note slipping 4.56 and lost several places. The average for all offices is 3.78,
minimally better than the last time

Find out the BAföG'S WITH

Louise Heymans

What deserves the brother? What happens when professionals change and what will happen after the standard period of study? An application needs Bafög many forms, and provides dozens of tricky questions - the blogs ONLINE Bafög guide provides answers.

In Marburg can Abteilungsleiterin Karin Schulze, the only bad result with painstaking work of their staff explained: "Only if the documents are complete, we can pay off" because their administrators were also very accurate. "There are offices, the casual look, which we see in the documents that we get from elsewhere," said Schulze.

The differences to the customer-friendly colleagues from Chemnitz, however, can be seen already at the initial information on the Internet: Marburg waives a hotline; statements on the application or other precise tools for students, there are none, according to letters of the surname orderly extensions not. This allows interested parties the Office at the first contact only through the central collection point to reach, then you will find the extension of official then in correspondence.

"Represented the law clerk"

The survey team Steffenhagen students made their displeasure in the open air site answers. What they most want, is easy to recognize - and remedy would be not so difficult. Item one on the list of why-I-am-Bafög despair rankings: the lame process. Solo 700 times criticizes students in open answers, the applications should be processed faster.

The second most important, they expressed the desire for longer opening times on more days. Since it is stuck with many Studentenwerke evident by the number of employees - and probably also at the service-orientation. Only quite a stir is the number three: too often pampigen tone. About 300 students wanted rather harsh polite clerk.

DSW Secretary Meyer on the heath advocates to understand the Alltagsnöte of student employees. The application was indeed complicated, but that was due to the legal situation: "The clerk can not help but to defend the laws. That should do it easy, but it remains a benefit for which the conditions must vote."

But there are strong differences between the offices - in some living rooms have too much official mentality? Achim Meyer on the heath like a certain pent-up demand is not exclusive: "It would be nice if the service-orientation is gaining an upper hand."

Federal student loans also in turmoil

In fact: Only about one in five rated the instructions when filling in forms with one or two notes. A third of sattes clerk has requested the advice from the perspective of the respondents failed and received the scores five or six.

Almost every second disturbs also the complexity of the student loans process, and the unequal treatment, as the applicant if they have experienced various offices. But, like so many in Germany, the federal method. Almost all provinces have their own way, the money that one third of the country budget and two-thirds comes from the federal budget, to be awarded.

"The country can not bring a single computer to develop," said Meyer on the Heyde. It could be that someone already asked about his hometown and then on to study in another state, a different procedure finds. Sometimes this even leads to different funding amounts.

Then get a student and his student brother in various university towns do not have the same rate student loans - and at least one is sure frustrating. What the survey also shows that the higher the funding, the more satisfied students are with the Office and consultants.

Should students for university buildings pay?.

The Uni-President in the Saarland has an idea: He wants a new floor mounted on a building - and the money of students for the expensive Lernoase spend. The Asta is furious, because tuition fees for home loans were not just thought.

 

It will be built - actually a nice signal in dark times. The hundred-meter-long building of the Philosophical Faculty at the University of the Saarland will grow by one floor. In this piece, it is Uni-President Volker Linneweber that arise then individually bookable workspaces for group work of students at secluded atmosphere.

Universität des Saarlandes
President Linneweber: "The system has to learn"

The Flachdachbau is large, the increase accordingly expensive. But it should not be publicly funded, but from money paid by the state as a campus collects tolls. Each with 110,000 euros from tuition fees in first four semesters, a credit for the new floor will be financed - an annoyance for the current Asta, in the decision provides for a dam break. The student representatives argue that the building had no improvement in the teaching, and their basic task was the provision of the country.

It is a Dauerzank: What are tuition fees because - for
nicer toilets? Perhaps for
Heating oil? Students should also apply to
Salaries of professors sheet? Last week vented this fundamental disagreement between university management and the recently-Saar Asta acting in the joint Commission for the award of tuition fees. The Asta alone is to blame for the current excitement, said the President. The students representing fire back: the participation, the president "against the wall."

New Guidelines cleverly threaded

What happened was: Until summer 2008, the construction guidelines of the University of revenue from fees from categorically. Even then summed University President Volker Linneweber but the plan, a nice garret than to the philosophers Lernoase building continued. Linneweber said in June that he planned to build new working spaces for over 15 years, with tuition fees to fund.

TUITION FEES

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An outcry was made initially. With the help of the Young Socialists led Asta, the Linneweber "constructively" called the president changed the "Guidelines for use of tuition fees." And he added a little phrase: Since there is "to improve the study conditions" as an option allowed the creation of student work and group rooms "- a phrase such as made for the roof extension.
"The system has to learn," said Linneweber then to his plan.

The situation is similar in the current case at the University of Hohenheim. At the Baden-Württemberg university wanted the line for the recent tuition heating output. Always, it says here, as there are students and university management together in wonderfully. Always harmony reigned, where the student may go Euro and where not - until the president went on the offensive with new plans and sowed discord.

New facilities always welcome - "but not from tuition fees"

As an "excellent" explains Wael Hamdan, Asta-chair at the University of Saarbruecken, the existing relationship with the president. "With him you can talk about everything," Hamdan was convinced. But this decision was Linneweber "harsh and undiplomatic." While welcoming the Asta new spaces for students - but not from tuition. " In contrast, there was unanimous decisions of the Conference and Asta Fachschaften all.

The otherwise affable president boasted to date their own governance in matters of campus toll: "In the Commission over which I have been using exclusively decisions, where the majority of student representatives agreed to" - but that is gone. Now says Linneweber harsh that Asta was "dominated fundamentalist" and should be "to return to substantive constructive".

On a total of 1.65 million euros of Asta the costs of the new floor. The financial concept see a loan over 15 years, will be 110,000 euros a year from tuition fees will be repaid - and the students also pay interest.

The objection here is to handle Hochschulbauförderungsgesetz, wipes away the President: It was "simply wrong" that Asta does not speak for the majority of students. The building serves "undoubtedly the frequently expressed wishes of the students." According to Linneweber may "not tuition for new buildings, renovation and Bauunterhaltung be used, but for student work and group rooms" - in line with the new guidelines, as adapted in the semester break the 2008th

"Students at compel their luck"

The President shall hartleibig, it is a substantive problem for the future: Can the Saarland with tuition fees to be built or not? The Asta says no, the President recently, yes. The country refers to the Higher Education Act. There is but only that the income the universities "as a third-party funds earmarked to improve the quality of education available" - which does not resolve the case.

"This is construction," says Linneweber. But for him there are two types, such as at a university can be built - "the duty and the Kür". Seminar rooms for the exclusive preparation for the students were just Kür. For compulsory rehabilitation he counts on a chemistry laboratory and other ailing buildings. Therefore, there is about the state economic program of the federal government 35 million euros.

Linneweber annoyed that the student representatives are no longer at his side. He had the feeling that he needed the students to force their luck, "he says. And that it is of rooms, as they now are to be created, in his student days can only have dreamed.

The relevant science ministry so far no clear answer whether the increase is planned law. For construction, a use of fees is generally not possible, there were "exceptions". If the new floor of such an exception? That would be examined, said a ministry spokesman blogs ONLINE. As will be Uni-President Linneweber "still need to explain."

Jesus disciples in missionary position.

"For every student knows someone who is burning for Jesus": In many university towns want fellow students at Evangelical faith sparks ignite. Some missionize frömmelnd moderate, but some zealot rush on campus against gays and abortion.

 

Late is the hour, N1189 windows of the lecture hall of the TU Munich, kaltgrün the light. Still: 250 listeners sit there and listen. Because Big is announced: "Do we have to completely revise our world?", The moderator had asked at the beginning.

A good hour later, most in the audience clearly: No, we have not.

Dry substance gave them the Ancient Near Eastern Martin Heath in this hour shall, detail on detail refers to the ancient tombs, with inscriptions and their interpretation. At the end presented Heide explained that in his opinion, no documentary evidence on the other hand, says that Jesus could be resurrected. So far, the science, "says Heide. "Everything that comes afterwards, is faith."

Because faith is here. Especially around the goal, to spread it. The Unit is part of a four-semester lecture series to start with the title "The Bible - Myth or Truth?" Organizer is an association of Christian higher education groups. Their goal: the peer-to Christianity. They may spread their faith, precisely in that place where the science has prescribed, whose top priority is the falsification. God is not falsifiable.

"Just as enthusiastic football fans, we make it"

Religious influence attempts occur in almost every German university, the events are called "Lebstoff", "Bigger than you think" or simply "University Days". Organized almost always they are groups of students who describe themselves as Christian, but neither of the two major churches belong. Mostly, they are evangelical free churches nearby.

En passant implicate their fellow Christians in conversations about Jesus, the Bible and their own faith. In the weeks before Christmas last defenders were the most active: Because it can happen that the missionaries hungry on the way to the cafeteria with an info booth surprise, from which they are forgotten in the Christian background of the celebration and remember the New Testament away. This is what happened in the cafeteria Arcisstraße close to the TU Munich.

Had organized the conversion event "Student Mission in Germany" (SMD), the largest student organization in the network of the Evangelicals. The SMD has indicated that it has local groups in some 70 German university towns. There is talk, sung, prayed and read the Bible, the statutes require, however, as the name suggests, on the mission - the new group zuzutreiben sheep.

This objective, the Christian graduates something clever than naive
Brochure distribution at the door. Those who discussed with them, gets arguments like tolerance and freedom to hear. "Just as enthusiastic football fans tell them that their club is the best, just as we do that also," says Joachim Eichhorn, of the 15 Bavarian SMD care groups. He would not even "selfish, not to do so."

Building the network of awakening and conversion

Why selfish? Andreas Hähle, checkered shirt, long hair, is the head of some 15 souls strong SMD Group Munich, he carries the argument further: "If people are searching for meaning, I am happy to speak and answer questions," says the 21-year-old student in chemistry and biochemistry.

UNIblogs 6 / 2008

TITLE
Crisis. What Crisis?
The rebuilding of the University of Frankfurt for the elite school of high finance

Content

The strategy: the first sparks of faith with friends and family to ignite. There are the young Christians throughout the times, they want to build a social network. Unlike Internet platforms such as Facebook and StudiVZ but it is not about Anbandeln and gossip, but about conversion and eternal life.

"Build movements that every student knows someone who is burning for Jesus," is the slogan of "Campus for Christ (CfC). The organization came as an offshoot of a U.S. mission to Germany and work has Today 21 local groups. At the Munich Composite includes Mike Morgan, 26, and Frank Bernhardt, 27 Bernhardt studied physics, Morgan visited before his math studies for two years a Bible school.

It hurt him to do, people to see that God does not know, because something would be missed, says Morgan. The sentences, which he describes conversion, sound for the rational mind of the scientist after nonage Directions to self: "He that repents, says: I see that I was bad. I see, I need forgiveness. I see it there forgiveness. I take it to, I take Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I therefore turn to because I will no longer alone source of my decisions. "

Future technologies under one roof.

With the "Singularity University" in California to Internet gurus and space the biggest problems of mankind approach, supported by NASA and Google. The first 30 students to work from June to plans for a future in which machines surpass humanity.

 

The Silicon Valley currently knows grief and worry, but in the nineties, it was the place for the very hot ideas - and it should now be back. NASA (National Space Agency of the U.S.) and the Internet service provider Google in California contributed to a new university to start. It aims to provide a learning environment with top students and top professors - a unique university, the Singularity University.

Screenshot: Singularity-founder Peter Diamandis

Start, the new super-university in June, her boss is the pioneer of artificial intelligence and future researcher Raymond Kurzweil, 61 Teaching and research content at the Singularity University: genetics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, all under one roof so future technologies, where the salvation of humankind from disease and all other hardships believed.

This roof is first the Ames Research Center of NASA in Mountain View, California and in the neighborhood called the Googleplex headquarters of the Internet company Google in Silicon Valley, the Valley of the inventor.

Learning for the next stage of civilization

The college initially started with 30 students. Scholarships will help you, the $ 25,000 tuition fees for their only nine week-long graduate study berappen. In the coming year will be 120 students in the new campus inhabit, reported the online service, "Tech Crunch".

UNI-CHEF RAY KURZWEIL

Raymond Kurzweil, 61, is an entrepreneur and inventor and Others the first written language reader for the blind, the first text-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flatbed scanner. He has received the National Medal of Technology, is dreaming of himself improving machinery and wrote about in "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology."

Two other programs provide a kind of Summer School for Topentscheider and scientists. Nanoscientists to be a geneticist, medical robotics experts to meet - and develop entirely new approaches to hunger and climate change in the years to come. Thus it describes Peter Diamandis, vice chancellor of the new university, the inventor of the X-Prize competition for the first private space flight and Co another private university: The International Space University in Strasbourg has been in existence since 1987 and is
Master's degree in space studies and from management.

In a press release of the Lifeboat Foundation, the University of the future chief Kurzweil belongs, says the involvement of NASA and Google proves that the theories of Raymond Kurzweil in the center of scientific discourse had arrived. Kurzweil predicts that before 2050, artificial intelligence surpass the human race and then a new era anbricht civilization. This development calls Kurzweil "technical singularity" - hence the name of the university.

Erasmus is no longer around.

One, two semesters at a foreign university, including parties, flirts and adventure - what could be better? In many countries, the enthusiasm fades, Europe's students often lack time and money. After 20 successful years schwächelt the Erasmus exchange program.

 

Rebekka Manos, 25, visited for five months, the Free University of Brussels. "I wanted to improve my language skills," says the marketing student from Hanover. The Erasmus program was offered because it was red tape, no required tests, and because they do not pay tuition fees in Brussels do.

Martin Krönke
Studying Abroad: Ideal for new friendships

Nevertheless, money is tight, Manos receives 160 euros per month. "This is a nice Zubrot, but not enough to cover living expenses." Without
savings would be her own study abroad is not possible. It was the financial support of the Erasmus students last increased significantly. After rising by more than half in four years, the scholarship on average 192 Euro per month, as the European Commission calculated.

Nevertheless, education is the European Erasmus program after a 20-year success story in the crisis. The
Enthusiasm for academic Auslandsaufenthalt recently in many countries waned. The number of German Erasmus students has stagnated, in Finland, Spain or Greece chose young graduates less than before to visit a partner university abroad.

Students under increasing time pressure

There are many reasons, most often missing, but the students time and money. From the EU's Lifelong Learning Erasmus receives each year 450 million euros. The amount of the scholarship is not decided in Brussels, but in the 31 agencies Erasmus countries (the 27 EU members plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Turkey).

The MEPs of the Green Trüpel Helga calls for more financial support to member countries: "It does not work if you just say: This is done already in Brussels." The aim should be that every student has the opportunity to study abroad.

Rebekka Manos hopes now on the so-called
International student loans. Whether it is government support in the amount of several hundred dollars a month gets, she knows but just before the end of semester is still not.

The Evelina Michta Polin, 22, receives a financial support from Erasmus of 250 euros per month. That's enough at least for rent in Brussels. "I'm totally fine and can even be something rumreisen," she says. The student of biotechnology from Gdansk is enthusiastic about the life abroad, but they would not repeat with Erasmus students. "I do not know if I've learned something, which I do not even have learned in Poland." They have anxiety, study time to waste.

Bachelor is a boomerang

Thus, the new learning with
Bachelor's and Master's degrees for Erasmus to boomerang. Only just had the desire for international mobility, after a flying change of students across countries the reason for this pan-European delivery reform.

But now, many students from a narrow time frame of its new study plan unsettle. The Erasmus semester remains
on the route. "People have less courage, such an adventure to tackle," says the Commissioner of Education spokesman John MacDonald.

THE ERASMUS PROGRAM THE EU

The idea

At a denominator is about foreign experience. Young people should be beyond the look at the new University of Languages speak, Land & People in love, culture vacuum, by an extra portion of "soft skills" to take home. Ideally, the Erasmus Student goes low in continuing claims, returns full of impressions back home.

History

In the first higher education 1987/88 is still spent 649 German students spend part of their study with the Erasmus program abroad. 2006 there were already over 23,000. Overall promoted in 20 years about 1.5 million students from 31 countries in Europe. It lies at the head of Germany in Europe, Spain and France: Nearly 240,000 German students abroad through Erasmus lived, loved, ate, drank. And of course, also studied.

The German mobile

The "engine of mobility of students" runs and runs and runs: The Higher Education Program of the European Union, named after the Dutch philologists and philosophers Erasmus of Rotterdam (1465-1536), this year celebrates the 20th Birthday. Since 1987 students from all EU countries, one or two semesters at universities abroad to study. As a national agency is the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is responsible for the award of mobility grants.

The Future

In 2006, the time of the EU's Socrates and Leonardo ended. They were replaced by the new EU umbrella program "Lifelong Learning". The total budget from 2007 to 2013 includes 6.9 billion euros, the lion's share of 3.1 billion is accounted for by Erasmus. Thus, the number of Erasmus students by 2012 to three million doubled. Currently, the scholarship money rather character - for German students are on average 121 euro per month. The amount will now be gradually reduced to around 200 euros per month to be increased.

The latest statistics counted 160,000 Erasmus students in the academic year 2006/07, it had up to 200,000 can get a scholarship. "We have a slowing of growth observed," admits MacDonald A. Since 2001, the number of participants each year by around 10,000, but as it was the 5000 more than before. That there is still a growth of three percent was, above all in the countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Proposal from France: Humboldt instead Erasmus

In the young EU member countries rose, the number of Erasmus students often by more than ten percent. The Commission argues that while on their gap with other countries. Nevertheless, to examine whether all other universities are also enough to advertise the program, because that they are under the Charter of the participating institutions committed. If this is not the case, some might also be excluded. Currently, nearly 90 percent of all universities in Europe with Erasmus.

Since 1987, almost two million people in the Erasmus Program. Despite the crisis, the Commission hopes to three million by 2012. In the French newspaper "La Croix" doubted the formation of expert Philippe Perchoc but the future viability of Erasmus. He claimed that more teachers abroad to teach and students for study abroad enthusiasm.

The program should read Humboldt suggested Perchoc before - named after Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, the two German universal scholar of the 19th Century. At that time, students saw their teachers, but still often seen as role model to her. Today it is rather the exception.