Like a real world business trip!

"The Bonn trip is amazing. It is like a real world business trip." - Participant 2009

Every summer, students of Loyola Marymount University's College of Business Administration visit Bonn as part of the program “The Environment of Business in the European Union”. Using Bonn as a hub, the program includes overnight excursions to Brussels (Belgium) and Maastricht (The Netherlands) as well as day trips with corporate and institutional visits to Frankfurt, Cologne, and Duesseldorf. Program participants get to enjoy the unique opportunity to interact with industry decision-makers and highly-ranked institutional leaders as part of their learning experience during this two-week course.

Take a look at a short version of the video produced by Paul, who was a participant of the program in Summer 2009 on our YouTube-Channel.

The complete video can be found here!

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Alaaf!

Finally, the Rhineland's fifth season has arrived. Although still recovering from the Berlin&Prague Excursion, there was no way to hold the New Europe Kids back from celebrating Carnival.

Having been hyped up about these crazy days for the past weeks, the students put a lot of efforts in their customs and appropriate Carnival behavior: The truth is, "Kamelle", "Bützje" and "Alaaf" sound even more charming with an American accent and was of course rewarded with lots (...and lots!) of candy and flowers at the Carnival Monday Parade.

German culture: The attendance of a soccer game

 

16 students from the Visualization Department of Texas A&M University have been in Bonn since mid-January. Although they have become acquainted with the German culture quite well, one important thing was still missing: attendance at a soccer game. Most of the students have been to games of their college football team, which usually plays in front of a crowd of 83,000. Nevertheless, the students greatly enjoyed the atmosphere they got to experience during the stand-off between Fortuna Düsseldorf and local rival MSV Duisburg. Unbeaten at home (8-2-0) Düsseldorf maintained its clean record and won 2:0 with 48,500 people attending the sold out home stadium.

Take a look at some impressions in our photo gallery!

AIB christmas outing 2009

This year's Christmas outing took the AIB staff to Mayschoss, a small village situated in the Ahr Valley south of Bonn, and its surrounding vineyards. While hiking up and down beautiful snowy hills, we learned about the region's wine growing history and practices and got to taste a few samples. Afterwards, we enjoyed a hearty dinner (and more wine...) in the cellars of the world's oldest wine growers' co-op. What are we to learn out of this? "Trinken lernt der Mensch zuerst, und später erste das Essen. Drum soll er auch als guter Christ, das trinken nicht vergessen." (one of our tour guide's wisdoms!).

Texas A&M University and Loyola Marymount University students visit Bonn's historic city hall

Deputy Mayor Angelica Maria Kappel welcomed the students to the reception room of Bonn's historical city hall, which has been a venue to receptions for many famous statesmen in the past, among them John F. Kennedy, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton.

Welcome New Europe Students!

The New Europe Programm Spring 2010 arrived! After a turbulent journey via icy London Heathrow, the New Europe Student finally made their way to Bonn. A great academic semester with trips to Berlin, Prag, and Spain lies ahead of them...and what could have been a better start than spending a day in the snowy Eifel region.

Amazed by so much (real) snow, the LA natives not only enjoyed a mass service in the abbey church of Maria Laach, a masterpiece of German Romanesque architecture, but also spent a whole lot of time in Monreal, a picturesque little town a good hour south of Bonn.

The only thing that was more exciting than the snow? The hot chocolate afterwards...

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"