Regional Group Bonn

The Science and Beethoven City on the Rhine

At the beginning of the semester, we invite you to a welcome meeting for all new DAAD scholarship holders. To get to know each other, we organize regulars’ tables or country evenings where we present your home country together with you. To make it easier for you to settle in Germany, we also offer a free online course “German as a Foreign language”.

We visit UN organizations and go to the Haus der Geschichte (House of History). We also go on excursions with you: we visit the surrounding area, take a boat on the Rhine or go on foot to the Siebengebirge hills. Several times we have also offered Zumba workshops, dancing to Latin American rhythms.

As a special highlight, we also organize city excursions, e.g. to the German capital Berlin or a day trip to Brussels with a visit to the European Parliament. 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.

In addition to this, we are committed to further expanding opportunities for our scholarship holders to meet German host families. Our Homestay Programme is also a great chance to put your German skills to use!