„Europe and friends“– International Europe Day
Gunther Krichbaum, member of the German ‘Bundestag’ (Parliament) and chairman of the German Bundestag Committee on the Affairs of the European Union meets international MBA & Bachelor students on campus.
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Gunther Krichbaum (MoP)
and Prof. Dr. Dirk Wentzel
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Krichbaum and Professor Dirk Wentzel, who holds a Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, started the Pforzheim University’s celebration of an "International" Europe Day - "Europe and friends" integrating students from India, China, Mexico. The international students presented their countries as well as gastronomic specialities to the audience in the foyer of the University’s library.
Modules as "Challenges and perspectives of the European Integration" as well as "Europe in the Global environment" are integral part of the Business School’s curricula in bachelor and MBA programs. The Europe Day was organized by Prof. Wentzel, international MBA & Bachelor students as well as by members of the Pforzheim University’s group of the Young European Federalists.
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| International stands in the foyer of the library |
PS - What is Europe Day?*
Probably very few people in Europe know that on May 9 in 1950 the first move was made towards the creation of what is now known as the European Union.
In Paris that day, against the background of the threat of a Third World War engulfing the whole of Europe, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman read to the international press a declaration calling France, Germany and other European countries to pool together their coal and steel production as "the first concrete foundation of a European federation".
What he proposed was the creation of a supranational European Institution, charged with the management of the coal and steel industry, the very sector which was, at that time, the basis of all military power. The countries which he called upon had almost destroyed each other in a dreadful conflict which had left after it a sense of material and moral desolation.
On the Milan Summit of EU leaders in 1985 it was decided to celebrate May 9 as "Europe Day". [*Source: http://europa.eu/abc/symbols/9-may/euday_en.htm]
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