Germany at its best: Successful internship experience for seven Italians

At the end of August 2009 seven students from Trento in Northern Italy came to the AIB in Bonn for an intensive internship experience. After a five-week German language course they spent more than two months in various internship institutions:

Angela took care of small children in a day-care center, Marco sold skater clothes, Maya supervised teenagers with difficult family backgrounds and Lorenzo worked at a PR and marketing agency. Giulia spent her internship at a fitness center, where she was given the opportunity to acquire the training license for aerobic classes. Alice immersed herself in the study of various artists at a museum and Patrizia supported an international youth exchange organization in their daily work.

Seperated from the group, in their respective internships each and every one of them was forced to communicate in German - and within the sixteen weeks they were in Bonn they made a big step forward in deepening their proficiency in spoken and written German!

Happy to be back for Christmas with their families, all students were sad to leave Bonn. But two of them are already planning to come back – they want to start a vocational training here in Germany!

FITS Europe students show finished semester projects

For the past four months here in the “Bundesstadt” Bonn, the students have dedicated themselves to their semester projects, a ten minute long documentary.

The students did not set boundaries on their creativity and have created interesting and very ambitious projects, set not merely in Bonn but throughout Europe.

Take a look at some impressions of the final screening in our photo gallery!

New Europe Program Fall 2009 in Pictures

The most memorable moments of our New Europe Fall 2009 Program. Enjoy!

AIB International Business Plan Competition 2009 – Part 2 And the winner is...

The winners of the AIB International Business Plan Competition have been announced at Friday night's NEP farewell party. We'd like to congratulate them, and thank everyone involved for turning this project into a memorable intercultural experience.

1. Greensteel Consulting: Promoting eco-friendly housing in the US
2. H.O.P.E.: "Helping Old People Everywhere"
3. Wind Doctors GmbH: "Keeping it Spinning"
4. Student Discovery: "Your Adventure, we can help"

AIB students ice skate: Watch video clip on AIB's new YouTube-Channel

The AIB students love the ice skating rink at Bonn's popular museums mile just as much as Bonn's Christmas market with it's many culinary delights.

Since the beginning of November Bonn’s Museumsplatz has turned into a skating paradise. Immersed in a magic sea of light one of Europe’s largest roofed open-air skating rinks with a surface of 1,000 square metres offers its wintery attractions.

Watch the short impression from last night, filmed by one of our current film students from Loyola Marymount Universtiy in Los Angeles on the AIB's new YouTube-Channel!

The AIB team wishes to all parents, host families, partners, students, alumni and friends a

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FULL OF JOY AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS!

Landscape Architecture students present design concepts at the United Nations in Paris

The students of the Landscape Architecture & Urban Design Semester program presented their design concepts for sustainable UN locations to the United Nations in Paris last week.

According to the student's project statement, the goal was: "to develop a master plan for the open space and streetscape for the surrounding area around of the United Nation campus in Bonn"… 

The students explored the possibilities of developing a sustainable solution to balance the impacts of the several 6000 person conferences per year at the World Conference Center on the City of Bonn.

Mr. Niclas Svenningsen, Head of Sustainable United Nations praised: "It was entirely my pleasure to listen to the excellent work that the students have made. I really see it as breaking new ground". Other UN officials affirmed the value of every student's contribution to the planning and design of UN sites throughout the world: "The student's work could be a prototype that will provide a replicable method for approaching the design of UN site landscapes worldwide, demonstrating the evolving technology and beauty of sustainability".

After presenting, the students agreed that they are surely going to reflect on the significance of what transpired at their Paris presentation for years to come.

Join us in viewing the finished projects of the FITS europe students

After several great years in Düsseldorf, this year's Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles/USA) Study Abroad Film Program, in cooperation with the Television School Europe (FITS Europe) was the first to take place in Bonn.

For the past four months here in the “Bundesstadt” Bonn, the students have dedicated themselves to their semester projects, a ten minute long documentary. The students did not set boundaries on their creativity and have created interesting and very ambitious projects, set not merely in Bonn but throughout Europe.

Friends & Family Screening
To give all students the opportunity to show their documentaries, we would like to invite you on Wednesday, December 16 (Friends & Family Screening 1), as well as on Thursday, December 17 ( Friends & Family Screening 2), to the AIB, Wilhelmstrasse 27 in 53111 Bonn. To make planning easier for you, please note the approximate screening times from the schedule below. We would like to encourage you to join us at the beginning of the screenings, but will also happily welcome every latecomer.
 
Final Screening
On Friday, December 18 six selected movies, chosen by a peer jury during the Friends & Family Screenings, will be shown at the “Brotfabrik” in Bonn-Beuel. Afterwards we cordially invite you to our a reception, which will also serve as the official farewell to our American guests.
 
Evening program
18:30 Reception
19:00 Presentation of the selected movies
20:30 Reception with refreshments
22:00 End of Event
 
The AIB would be happy to welcome you to this very important event for the students and greatly appreciate, if you could RSVP by Wednesday, December 16 either by mail to  zimmermann@aibnet.de or by phone under 0228 / 33 88 39 28. We look forward to seeing you!

AIB International Business Plan Competition 2009

Teaming up with students from the Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, eight New Europe students competed in the AIB's International Business Plan Competition on December 2, presenting their business ideas in front of panel of jurors (Dr. Hassels, Rheinischer Merkur newspaper, Dr. Anatoly Zhuplev, LMU, Viktoria Börner & Ture Petersenn, AIB).

The teams had worked on their ventures throughout the semester under the umbrella of a class offered by LMU's Dr. Charles Vance in the New Europe Program. Instructor Frank Maikranz from the Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences taught the students how to develop a formal business plan and how to effectively present their ideas. The winners will be announced at the New Europe program's farewell party on December 11.

The AIB is sponsoring cash prices for the top three teams. What idea would you chose?

Wind Doctors GmbH: "Keeping it Spinning" (windmill maintenance)

H.O.P.E.: "Helping Old People Everywhere"

Greensteel Consulting: Promoting eco-friendly housing in the US

Student Discovery: "Your Adventure, we can help" (student travel agency)

Find out who won on December 14th in this spot...