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Expand your German language skills with our texts and exercises. Use the German language with other Alumniportal members in groups or find local courses or partners to practise your German with.

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Join topical groups that match your interests or your expertise. Share the latest scientific findings, discuss ideas, ask questions or upload files and videos.

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Take part in live sessions on global, social or job market-related topics. Follow the lectures in real time and put your questions directly to the experts.

Continuing education

Stay up to date with tenders for scholarships and funding programmes of German institutions. You can also find information on events, training or continuing education programmes in your country.

Find a job

Find assignments or a new job with a Germany company or a German organisation in your country. Our job exchange provides job vacancies in many countries worldwide.

Career fairs

It is easy to get in touch with renowned German companies – without even leaving the house. You can take part in our virtual career fairs Trained in GermanY - live, free of charge and from your home.

Career tips

Get tips and incentives for your career with a German company, such as practical suggestions on how to write an application, insider tips for your job interview or information on important soft skills.

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Build international cooperation networks. Find German and international protagonists from the fields of science and professional expertise: Research institutions, businesses and non-profit organisations as well as consultants and professional experts.

Find solutions together

Take part in our creative competitions and hands-on projects. Join together with other alumni to develop ideas and problem-solving approaches for specific global or social issues.

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Alumni magazine – Current topics

What does home mean for you?

Debate on the concept of “Heimat” in Germany

Germany's new interior minister, Horst Seehofer, is also Germany's first federal Heimat minister. But what does “Heimat” signify? A feeling of home and belonging to a place, a personal comfort zone? Sociologist Armin Nassehi discusses the numerous interpretations of the sometimes controversial term.

The Alumniportal’s quizzes

A quiz is a gamified way to transfer and to test knowledge. Using the easy questions-answers-game is fun and leads to a high learning success. Over the past two years, we have posted a variety of quizzes: on German food, the state of our oceans or on Martin Luther. Now we have gathered all of our quizzes together in a separate category. Why not drop in and have a go?!

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Interview: Automation

“Any job could be affected”

In his award-winning book “The Rise of the Robots”, US-American author and IT-entrepreneur Martin Ford explores the question of how our working environment is changed by digitisation. What will the labour market of the future look like? Will intelligent machines also take the jobs of the highly qualified work force?

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Alumniportal Deutschland Newsletter

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You will receive our weekly newsletter with Expert know-how, interviews and information on Germany, Information on interesting discussions and activities in our online community, a survey of all current alumni events and network - easily understandable information instead of complicated technical terminology! You have the choice between information in German or English.

Newsletter “Verstehen Sie Deutsch”

Which idioms do you know? And which typical phases are you familiar with?

To find out, subscribe to our daily newsletter “Verstehen Sie Deutsch?”. Every day, you will receive a German word or a German phrase per email, free of charge! And of course we will also give you the translation. Make use of this opportunity to improve your knowledge of German in a playful way. The newsletter is only available in German.

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Germany-Alumni portrayed

Prof. Abdelghani
E. Figueroa
Dr. Calub
M. Randrianirainy
N. Fejzibegovic

Prof. Adnane Abdelghani

Adnane Abdelghani is a professor at the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT) in Tunisia. The Germany-Alumnus is involved with Tunisian innovation and start-up projects in the field of nanotechnology. In the 1990s, he was in Germany for a three-year research project at the Technical Universty of Munich, supported by a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.

“I believe that with support from Germany, Tunisia can implement successful projects in the areas of biotechnology, mechatronics, mechanics, electromechanics and environment.”

Estefania Figueroa

Estefanía Figueroa Buitrago is a student of electrical engineering and came to Germany in 2012/13, together with 30 other Colombian scholarship holders, as part of the DAAD-programme "Young Engineers from Colombia". After a two-month German language course at the Goethe-Institut in Göttingen, she studied electrical engineering for one semester at the Technical University of Dresden. Afterwards, the Germany-Alumna completed an internship in the area of Android programming with the German company Bosch.

“You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself and do everything with sincerity.”

Dr. Blesida Calub

Blesilda M. Calub is a researcher in the field of integrated cultivation systems and agricultural consultation at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. In 1994, she took part in a GIZ training programme on the subject of "Development of Agricultural Systems" in Germany. Following this, the Germany-Alumna became a member of the multicultural team of trainers in several Southeast Asian countries. As a result of her practical work in the field, she published the "Participatory Rural Appraisal Guidebook".

“During my training in Germany, I was impressed by the interactive and participatory teaching methods, because they were very different from the usual lecture format which I knew from my home country.”

Manuela Randrianirainy

Manuela Randrianirainy is studying German philology in Antananarivo. She was in Munich for three months and took a German language course at the Goethe-Institut. After completing her Master's thesis, the Germany-Alumna would like to work as a teacher at the University of Madagascar and as a translator.

“I have a lot of very happy and unforgettable memories of my stay in Germany. I would like to pass on my passion for Germany and the German language to as many people as possible.”

Nino Fejzibegovic

Nino Fejzibegovic is Bosnian. Since 2010, his medical studies not only took him to the University of Heidelberg, but also to Sweden, South Africa, Austria, Japan and to the USA, where he did internships. Germany, however, became a second home to him. The next steps are his dissertation and his specialist examinations.

“I strongly advise everyone to simply dare to see and do something else.”

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