Ruhr-Universität Bochum

05/02/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/02/2024 01:34

Visit from Tours

International

Visit from Tours

28 French students are spending a week in Bochum, while getting to know the Romance Studies department.

University partnership in action: In 2022, Dr. Nathalie Piquet, lecturer in French at Ruhr University, visited Tours with 19 Romance studies students from Bochum. Now the return visit is on the agenda: 28 German Studies students from the Université François Rabelais in Tours and their lecturers will spend a week in Bochum, getting to know the Romance Studies department at Ruhr- University. They arrived in Bochum on the evening of April 28, 2024 and met their hosts on campus the very next morning.

... that the partnership between Ruhr University Bochum and the Université François Rabelais in Tours was established back in 1967? This makes it one of the first international partnerships which the Ruhr University formed.

German and French students promptly formed tandems to complete the week's program together. This included excursions to the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex and Villa Hügel in Essen as well as to the old town of Hattingen. However, guests and hosts spent most of their time on campus to get to know each other better. The next return visit is guaranteed to take place soon.