Angel Manuel Rafael

TEMPUS CO17A06-2006 Structural Preparation of B&H Universities for Academic European

Integration through modular structures (MSBIH)

Philipps-Universität Marburg

Tuzla February 18th, 2007

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Facts and figures

• Located in the federal state

of Hessen

• Founded in 1527

• 1st Protestant University

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Facts and Figuresother towns have a University

Marburg is a University

• 17 Faculties

• 19,000 students

• 358 full professors

• 1,900 academic staff

• 1,692 administrative-technical staff

• 4,300 staff in the university hospital which was privatised in January 2006

Angel Manuel Rafael

Faculties

• Faculty of Law• Faculty of Business Administration and

Economics • Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy • Faculty of Psychology • Faculty of Protestant Theology• Faculty of History and Cultural Studies • Faculty of German Studies and History of the

Arts • Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science • Faculty of Physics • Faculty of Chemistry

Faculty of Pharmacy• Faculty of Biology• Faculty of Geology • Faculty of Geography • Faculty of Medicine • Faculty of Education

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Students

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Administration of the University

• President´s Office

• Chancellor

• University Council

• Extended Presidial Body

• Senate

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History

• 5 centuries of history

• Innovation as a tradition

• Marburg Debate 1529

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Famous Lectures and students

• Denis Papin• Christian Wolff• Robert Bunsen• Friedrich Carl of Savigny• Hermann Cohen• Karl-Ferdinand Braun• Emil von Behring• Michail Lomonossow• Brothers Grimm• Ortega y Gasset• Boris Pasternak• Konrad Duden• Otto Hahn

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Famous Lectures and students

„I am indebted to Marburg on the Lahn for at least half of my hopes and maybe even for my entire way of thinking“, wrote Ortega y Gasset about his student

times at Philipps-Universität

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International Activities

• Erasmus/LLP

• 170 bilateral Agreements

• 380 Outgoings (2006/2007)

• 1.200 Outgoings since (2003/2004)

• Non-European contacts with Institutions

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International Activities

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Excellence in research

• Nobel Prize winner

• Behring Center

• S4 Security laboratory

(one of only five in Europe)

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THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION