Academic collaboration with Germany blossoming
GERMAN Ambassador Peter Prugel has handed out this year's German Academic Exchange Service scholarships.
Twenty-five scholarships were granted to students and professionals from Southeast Asian countries for masters or PhD studies for tropical medicine at the Seameo Tropmed Network and for a master’s degree programme in a broad range of engineering fields and natural sciences at the Asian Institute of Technology.
In his speech at a ceremony held at his Bangkok residence, Prugel said that academic cooperation between Germany and Thailand had developed significantly.
Official university collaboration between the two countries reached a record 186 instances with great exchanges on all academic levels and fields, he said.
Prugel said that those who had won scholarships and German alumni belonged to a “family of academics related to Germany”.
He encouraged this year’s scholarship crop to stay in contact with one another and their respective universities and to register at the DAAD Information Centre in Bangkok to benefit from future academic offers.
DAAD is one of the world’s largest organisations for academic cooperation and also awards grants to teachers, researchers and scientists in all fields of study. Besides fostering direct academic exchanges with Germany, DAAD also grants scholarships to students in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
