Member stories: strengthening Franco-German cooperation

Read the story of an EAIE member who is actively working to promote cooperation and research between France and Germany. In this next post in our series highlighting the stories of EAIE members, Patricia Rohland tells us why the decision to build a career in international higher education was so easy, in addition to some of the many reasons why she continues to work in our field.
The Franco-German University is not a classical university. It is a network of 160 universities in France and Germany which offer more than 150 bi-national and tri-national study programmes in almost every study field. Our mission is to actively promote cooperation and research between both countries and to foster university partnerships. Together with my team, I am in charge of public relations, public private partnerships and alumni relations. Our mission can be described as a chain that goes from student recruitment, to relationships with current students and all the way through to alumni relations. We are also in charge of all external partnerships: the cooperation with the business world, foundations, institutions in the field of higher education and political institutions. As our institution is quite young – it was created in 1999 – it is a daily challenge to increase its visibility towards all target groups. More...