HALBAN The Department of Urban Planning and Architectural Design (UPAD) of the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Buxtehude University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule 21) in Germany. The university is specialized in the fields of Building Sciences, Technical Sciences, and Health Sciences. The Department of Architecture at Hochschule 21 offers a four year Bachelor of Engineering programme in Architecture, combining theory and continuous practice at architecture offices for two to three months each semester. “In the frame of an exchange programme funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) entitled ‘University Dialogue with the Islamic World’ our universities have been working in cooperation with each other, in the past two years. During that time we conducted a project on the duality of professional practise in architecture. Due to its success we wish to extend and enhance our cooperation in all fields, including student and staff exchange as well as in research during the next five years,” said Prof. Dr. Ing. Karsten Ley, who is an urban planner, architect and the Head of the Department of Architecture at Buxtehude University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Dr. Karsten Ley has been working as a regular fly-in professor at GUtech since the foundation of the GUtech in 2007.
A group of twenty architecture students and professors from Buxtehude University of Applied Sciences visited GUtech and a group of GUtech students and their UPAD professors visited the university in Germany last year. Three German students are currently studying in the 5th and 7thsemester in UPAD at GUtech. In the next semester three students will conduct their BSc thesis at Buxtehude University of Applied Sciences. “We are looking forward to strengthen our cooperation in the coming years. In the next year a small group of students will conduct their Bachelor thesis at Buxtehude University of Applied Sciences,” said Prof. Dr. Gustavo De Siquiera, Head of the UPAD Department at GUtech. “The project will be applied research and conducted for the Ministry of Environment Schleswig-Holstein in cooperation with two other Universities of Applied Sciences,” added Prof. Dr. Karsten Ley. GUtech students will get some insights and benefit from an international research environment and architectural research practises in Germany.
“Our university focuses on application-oriented courses. Therefore the students are well prepared for their professional lives in their field,” said Prof. Karsten Ley. Buxtehude University of Applied Sciences was re-founded as a private university in 2004, looking back at a continuous tradition as academic institution that originally started in 1875. Currently a total of 1,100 are studying at the university, including 200 students at the Department of Architecture. The University is located in the Hanseatic City of Buxtehude, in the greater Hamburg Metropolitan Area and the wider region of the rivers Elbe and Weser in Northern Germany.
Caption: Prof. Dr. Karsten Ley and Prof. Dr. Ing. Michael Modigell as well as Prof. Dr. Gustavo de Siquiera signed the MoU on behalf of both universities.
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