Studying in Germany – tips for your search for a study place

The German higher education landscape is a colourful one. Nationwide there is a choice of 400 universities of a very high level at which you can study. Choosing the right study course is therefore perhaps not so easy. Here you can find the most important websites and tips for your search for a study place.

A historic opportunity

Bernhard Seliger heads the branch of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Seoul. He wants to help promote the rapprochement between North and South Korea and the international community. Four questions for the Korea expert.

70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift

The sky above Berlin was full of aeroplanes. This time, however, three years after the end of the Second World War, the roar of their engines did not signal disaster for the people of Berlin – but their salvation. American and British planes brought food and coal to the city’s blockaded western sector.

How and where to celebrate the World Cup in Germany

Art in the service of diplomacy

It is here that the visions of the passionate cultural networker Martin Roth continue to be upheld: under the slogan “What can culture do?”, representatives of the cultural, academic, artistic and political sectors meet in Berlin to share their ideas. Martin Roth, who died in 2017, was one of the world’s most influential cultural managers; he ran the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 2011 until 2016 and was then president of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifA), which stages this symposium.

Merkel meets Macron in Meseberg

Meseberg, Germany (dpa) - Germany and France have agreed to create a eurozone budget from 2021 onwards within the European Union's exiting financial framework, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, after talks with her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.

What do you believe?

Dalia Grinfeld, 23, did a degree in political science and Jewish studies and is president of the Jewish Student Union of Germany (JSUD)

70 years of social market economy

According to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, “the social market economy is the foundation of our liberal, open and democratic society. The main idea behind the social market economy is to protect the freedom of the economy and functioning competition, and at the same to foster prosperity and social security in our country.”

“We can learn a lot from religions”

What responsibility do religions have in the global peace process, and what support do they need? Dirk Lölke heads the task force at the Directorate-General for Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office and answers the most important questions about the peace conference in Berlin.

German social market economy at 70

Berlin (dpa) - Top German politicians gathered Friday in Berlin to celebrate the 70th anniversary of a cornerstone of Germany's post-war economic prosperity, the economic and currency reform and the so-called "social market economy."