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Vice President of UN University Visits Our University
The United Nations University of Bonn (UNU), headquartered in Tokyo, was founded to give advice to the organisations of the United Nations. Over the past ten years, the objectives of the UN University have changed, which has led to plans for the introduction of university offers in the traditional sense.
Bonn is the head office of the UNU’s Vice Rectorate for Europe. The Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) is also located there. Dr Jakob Rhyner, who has been Vice Rector of the UNU and Director of the UNU-EHS since September 2010, discussed possible topics for cooperation with our University’s President Prof. Dr Hartmut Ihne during his visit to Sankt Augustin. Vice President Prof. Dr Volker Sommer and Dr Roland Weiß, the Head of our University’s International Office, also took part in the talks.
In view of the considerable UN interest in issues of security and technology, physicist Rhyner also thinks there is common ground for cooperation with the Department of Natural Sciences. The topic of “data mining against the background of crisis scenarios” also provides promising prospects.
The photo shows (from the left): Dr Roland Weiß (Head of the International Office), Dr Jakob Rhyner (UNU), Prof. Dr Hartmut Ihne (President of the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Dr Volker Sommer (Vice President for Research and Transfer).