Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - HU International

Humboldt-Universität is continuing its course towards becoming a fully-fledged international university. This process is not understood as work towards a fixed target or goal, it is rather the permanent striving for enhancing at all levels its standing as an institution of teaching and research, as a home and host university which attracts an ever-growing number of students, scholars, scientists and partner institutions so that the international nature is becoming intrinsic to all its decisions and all its structures, thus contributing to further improving the atmosphere in which learning, teaching and research is going on. Humboldt-Universität is pursuing this course into the world of the 21st century in the Humboldtian spirit in which teaching and research are considered a unity.

As a strategy Humboldt-Universität defines the following principles:

• The necessity of continuously intensifying the international nature of the University calls for the permanent development of excellent teaching, research and training.
• Teaching and research always encompass international components since they are basically part of a complex network including various international partners. Therefore, Humboldt-Universität supports all international networking activities.
• International experience is of great value for both staff and students of Humboldt-Universität, which is why the University supports all mobility programmes for students and staff, the provision of language courses, the Summer University as well as all endeavours to improve the infrastructure and service for international guests and other visitors, for its employees and for relevant projects. Those who do not have the chance of making use of international mobility programmes will have to be given the opportunity to collect such experience on the international campus of Humboldt-Universität.
• Humboldt-Universität is a university of the Capital City and the Federal State of Berlin aiming to increase the interaction between the two international environments to make it mutually beneficial.