What an exciting start! We went to the drinks hall first to have an enlivening coffee in the morning. But then we recognized the plenty of juices which are all natural or even organic. That is especially the topic we are dealing with today. We want to find out, weather the food & beverage industry [...]

Food everywhere – we will not starve at the biggest food-fair in the world. Now we are sitting in the press-center, preparing our topic: Fair trade and LOHAS. We will tell you more about it later. Yesterday we toured around the magnificent city of Cologne, went into the Dom, went shopping and had a “Kölsch” [...]

German artist Gregor Schneider designs a Durga pujo pandal as part of Germany and India: Infinite Opportunities.

I believe most of you here have applied for your studies in Germany through uni-assist. I did too. Did you feel like waiting for an answer takes years to arrive? To me, it seemed like that. However, we must apply via uni-assist no matter what, as a non EU student so to speak. Some of [...]

I would be really surprised if there is any place in this world that sells in the last week of September more beer than Munich. 2011 has been a remarkable year for me in many ways and then a chance to visit the Oktoberfest is an icing on the Cake. I was there at this [...]

Last August I took another important step in order to do a Master’s in Germany: a test of Spanish language skills. That might sound contradictory for someone who’s talking about studying in Germany, but actually it’s not. Most graduate programs have English skills as a requirement alongside the already expected German language skills. Since the [...]

What’s up around Europe. That’s what I’ve been curious about all semester.  I took my summer pause at University to feed my curiosity and visited Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic at once, and that’s exactly why I’ve been absent from the blog for such a long time. Now I’m back and I want to write [...]

Scientific research is not by rule a fixed 9 to 5 job. In academia the hours are flexible enough so that you can have it that way if you want, though your group leader could have audacity to demand 60 hours a week – explicitly or implicitly. The amount of work you get done above [...]

by Dominik Brüggemann Looking back on three days at the International Motor Show (IAA) I am not only left with a wide range of great experiences but also sore feet: the huge halls in Frankfurt were filled with billions of cars – at least that is how it felt like – and wanting to see [...]

by Maria This is a message to all Ladies!!!! The IAA has a special ladies corner. This is probably the only place in the whole area, where you can see more women than men!!! What else you can find there? Of course a lot of advice for driving women (like for example tips for a [...]