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Bard College Berlin is honored to announce that Michael Adam Hardacker is the recipient of this year’s DAAD award. Adam is a third year BA student in the Economics, Politics, and Social Thought Program at Bard College Berlin.

The award goes to an international student who has demonstrated academic excellence and has shown initiative for civic and cultural engagement beyond their studies. Students were first nominated by faculty and then a selection committee that involved the college’s leadership as well as the Civic Engagement Office had the difficult task of choosing one winner.

In selecting Adam, the committee was especially impressed with his impeccable academic record and the testimonies of his professors that reveal Adam to be not only a hard working but als a very interested and attentive learner, who goes to great lengths to help others in the BCB community strive. Besides having been involved in several community outreach activities in the Pankow neighborhood to teach English, Adam volunteers several hours each month at BCB to review essays and schoolwork from other students, providing constructive feedback, improving their language skills, and helping them with math and programming.

Managing Director Florian Becker awarded the DAAD certificate during a private and pandemic friendly award ceremony.

The award comes with a  monetary prize of 1000 EURO that is part of DAAD funding in the STIBET program. 

Congratulations, Adam!  

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Bard College Berlin is honored to announce Bíborka Béres as the winner of the 2019 DAAD Award. Bíborka is a third-year Hungarian student who is enrolled in the B.A. in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought at Bard College Berlin.
 
The selection committee reviewed the nominations that were handed in by faculty members and after an intense deliberation decided to offer the Award to Bíborka whose academic as well as civic engagement achievements reveal an excellent, hard-working, academically and civically deeply committed student. Bíborka’s studies, free time, life and work are connected through the thread of being engaged, alert, and always in exchange with both the near and greater outside world.  

Bíborka has been working as one of the Civic Engagement Office’s student assistants at Bard College Berlin. In this role, she organizes events around current issues in the political, social and humanitarian realm, and assists with student projects while bringing the Bard College Berlin community into closer contact with Berlin as well as a more global community. She also explores these issues in her academic work as she writes papers and engages in research revolving around these topics. To complement these efforts, she further participates in numerous conferences that enable her to contextualize and advance her knowledge in an international and interdisciplinary context. 

Florian Becker, BCB’s Managing Director, awarded the DAAD certificate to Bíborka​​​​​​​ during “Winterzauber,” the traditional end-of-year celebration held on December 16, 2019 and open to the entire campus community.

The DAAD Award is a monetary award of €1000 that is part of DAAD funding in the STIBET program. It honors outstanding international students in Germany with an exceptional record of engagement for social, political, cultural or humanitarian causes.

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For the second time, the German Studies Program at Bard College Berlin received a DAAD STIBET I.

Similar to last year, the STIBET funding will be used to support the advanced seminar “The German Public Sphere” (in German) that brings together students with guest speakers and faculty to discuss the key themes of migration, populism, artificial intelligence, and gender equity, and to visit German media outlets.

Recent guest seminar leaders included Johanna Luyssen from the Libération on current Franco-German relationships, Sebastian Kenn on projects of the European Democracy Lab and Alexander Sängerlaub from Stiftung Neue Verantwortung on media and fake news; together with Caroline Kent from Tactical Technology Collective, students discussed the organization’s work at the intersection of technology, human rights and civil liberties, and hosted a Glassroom Experience exhibition on campus.

Bard College Berlin will also use the funds to continue last year’s conference series on the topic of antisemitism in cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch. And through the financial support of STIBET I, supervised student tutors will assist students to advance their German language skills in individual meetings, tailored to their needs and questions.

The DAAD's STIBET initiative is a combined scholarship and support program offered to universities using funding from the Federal Foreign Office. STIBET’s overarching objective is to make a contribution towards improving the academic success rate of foreign students.

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Bard College Berlin is pleased to announce the winner of the DAAD Award. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has enabled Bard College Berlin to select one excellent international student with an impressive record of academic achievement and civic engagement.

The DAAD Award is a monetary award of €1000 that is part of DAAD funding in the STIBET program. It honors outstanding international students in Germany with an exceptional record of engagement for social, political, cultural or humanitarian causes.

Following the review of many qualified applications, the DAAD Award was offered to senior student Margarethe Hattingh (BA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought). The committee was impressed not only with Margarethe’s excellent academic and civic engagement record, but also with the recommendations she received from BCB faculty.

Margarethe Hattingh is currently an editor and writer for Bard College Berlin’s student blog “Die Bärliner,” a member of the organizing team of the upcoming Liberal Education Student Conference, as well as a math tutor for her BCB peers. She previously worked as an assistant in BCB’s Civic Engagement Office, as a teacher of English to sixth-graders at a school in Berlin, and interned with the Berlin-based NGO Office for the Implementation of Equal Treatment.

“What this award means is that somewhere out there someone cares about the engagement of students in not just academics, but in the society around them; it means that this sort of engagement is valued, and that non-German students are also seen as valuable to Germany,” stated Marga upon receiving the award, noting that “the deserving [students] are too many to count”. She added that “the award means I can feel optimistic about the value I have contributed in my time here, and that I can continue to do more meaningful and impactful work with the money I have received.”

Florian Becker, BCB’s Managing Director, awarded the DAAD certificate to Margarethe during the traditional end-of-year celebration held on December 17, 2018 and open to the entire campus community.

Photo (left to right): BCB's Director of Public Affairs and Development Bendetta Roux, senior student and DAAD Award recipient Margarethe Hattingh, and Managing Director Florian Becker

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The German Language and Literature Program at Bard College Berlin received a DAAD STIBET I for 2018. Sponsored by the DAAD, the advanced seminar “The German Public Sphere” (in German) brings together students with guest speakers and faculty to discuss the key themes of migration, populism, and gender equity, and to visit German media outlets. The funds also sponsor a tutor position and supervisor to help students advance their German language skills in individual meetings, tailored to their needs and questions.

The DAAD's STIBET initiative is a combined scholarship and support program offered to universities using funding from the Federal Foreign Office. STIBET’s overarching objective is to make a contribution towards improving the academic success rate of foreign students.

View the syllabus of the seminar "The German Public Sphere"

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Das Programm für deutsche Sprache und Literatur am Bard College Berlin hat ein DAAD STIBET I für das Jahr 2018 erhalten. Im vom DAAD geförderte Seminar „The German Public Sphere“ (auf Deutsch) werden Studenten, Gastdozenten und Bard College Berlin Professoren gemeinsam die Themen Migration, Populismus und Gleichstellung von Frauen diskutieren sowie Medienunternehmen besuchen. Außerdem fördert der DAAD eine Tutorenstelle und eine zusätzliche Lehrkraft, um Studenten bei der Entwicklung ihrer deutschen Sprachkompetenzen in individuellen und an ihren Bedürfnissen und Fragen ausgerichteten Tutorien zu unterstützen.

Link zum Lehrplan des Seminars „The German Public Sphere“

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