Freie Universität Berlin welcomes international students from 33 different countries

The students have come to Freie Universität Berlin for International Summer University FUBiS. These students are from South Korea, the United States, European countries and China.

Study in Germany: Freie Universität Berlin recently welcomed its largest cohort of international students in last seven years for International Summer and Winter University FUBiS. The program is four-week long and the students will get the option to choose from a number of courses including various academic subjects and German language classes. The current term has 346 students from over 33 countries and it will run through August 17.

The students have come from different European countries, China, South Korea and United States. In the current term, students will get to choose from sixteen subject courses, and sixteen German language courses for all skill levels. The university has also partnered with Utrecht Summer School to provide two international summer classes on art history and European history. For these two classes, the foreign students travel to the Netherlands and Italy before coming to Berlin.

FUBiS winter courses Term 2025 to commence in Jan 2

The course will be conducted from January 2 to January 24. Registration for the winter course will begin in August 2024. The subject courses topics include history to sustainability, contemporary developments in music, European politics, economics, philosophy, and the architecture of Berlin.

For the first time, the FUBiS Summer University was held in 1998, and in 2007, a winter term was added.

Freie Universität new study on climate communication

The university conducted a study on the issues of climate communication.

“One of the key problems with climate communication is that it does not adequately convey the severity of the issue. The language typically used represents an obstacle to not only open societal debate but also to the political and legal regulations that are urgently needed,” says Dr. Bálint Forgács, a neurolinguist at Freie Universität Berlin.

The research highlighted how professional and academic communication about climate change is not properly conveying the urgency of the situation.

“By introducing a medical language to climate communication, we could achieve a real paradigm shift. This approach could make it possible to more effectively communicate the seriousness of the climate crisis and boost both the acceptance for the necessary measures among the wider public and their political and legal implementation,” says Forgács.

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