Regional Group Bonn

The Science and Beethoven City on the Rhine

Bonn is shaped by 19 UN organisations, 150 NGOs, important science and research institutions, numerous museums, a wide choice of cultural options, the Rhine, the Siebengebirge hills and its proximity to Cologne. Join us on a tour of discovery!

At the beginning of the semester, we invite you to a welcome meeting for all new DAAD scholarship holders. We regularly have informal gatherings at Bonn University’s International Club in order to get to know one another. There are also information evenings on various topics, or theme evenings at which, together with you, we present your home country.

We visit UN organisations and go to the Haus der Geschichte (House of History). Once a year, we organise a Zumba workshop and dance to Latin-American rhythms. Besides that, we go on excursions with you: we visit the surrounding area, take a boat on the Rhine or go on foot to the Siebengebirge hills, or even go on a trip to the Ruhr area, e.g. to Essen or Duisburg.

In alternate years, we also offer two excursions: a day trip to Brussels including a visit to the European Parliament and a trip to Berlin, the capital of Germany. We would like to expand the “Deutschland hautnah − Germany behind the scenes” programme, as part of which scholarship holders are placed with German host families. We are still looking for hosts in the region.

Here you find reports about past activities of our regional group.