Ostpartnerschaften (Partnerships with the East)

With its 10 partner universities throughout Middle and Eastern Europe and an annual budget of 100,000 EUR, OVGU is one of the main project partners in the DAAD programme "Ostpartnerschaften" (Partnerships with the East).

Aims

The Ostpartnerschaften programme aims to encourage partnerships between German institutions of higher education and its counterparts in Middle, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and also the GUS countries.

Through these partnerships, the DAAD pursues the following goals:

strengthening of existing partnerships and initiation of new, stable twinnings with insitutions of higher education in the target region
encouraging cooperation in research and teaching in a variety of subject areas
boosting the exchange of scientiest, graduates and students under the framework of partnership agreements
fostering a sustainable structural improvement of teaching and research conditions in the partner countries
enhancing the internationalisation of German and foreign institutions of higher education

Forms and Call for Application

The Following Universities Are Partners of OVGU

Georgia	Tbilisi State University

Moldova	Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chișinău

Russian Federation	Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism
	Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod
	St Petersburg University
	Kazan Federal University

Czech Republic	Masaryk University Brno

Ukraine	National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
	National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"

Hungary	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
	University of Miskolc