Events

Take part in the guided tour of Liebherr on 23 November and gain insight into one of Rostock’s leading companies and top employer in the region.

Liebherr, founded in 2002, develops and manufactures ship cranes, mobile harbour cranes and offshore cranes. Its product portfolio also includes reach stackers and components for container cranes. Liebherr is a key global player in the industry with almost 2000 employees working in areas ranging from marine and mechanical engineering, accounting and law to research and IT. It trains apprentices and employs students. Gaining some “behind-the-scenes” over the 450.000+ square meter location in Rostock is a must for all students in a technical or marine-related study programme and for those of you who are interested in getting to know the inner workings of a large company.

We look forward to your participation! Be excited :)

The guided tour will take place on Thursday, 23^rd of November. We will meet at 08:15 am at the Rostock Steintor IHK stop on platform K and take tram 1 at 08:32am. Please be on time! The tour will take about 2.5 to 3 hours. Please feel free to think about questions beforehand, which will then be answered by the employees ;)

Please register until 20 November via welcome-centeruni-rostockde if you like to take part.

Contact: welcome-centeruni-rostockde

Further information: https://www.liebherr.com/de/deu/%C3%BCber-liebherr/liebherr-weltweit/deutschland/rostock/mcctec-rostock.html

We, the International Welcome Center, would like to invite you to a another joined trip to a museum! This time we’re going to the PhanTECHNIKUM in Wismar on July9^th . We want to give you a chance to get to know other Internationals, while exploring a (possibly) new city. The PhanTECHNIKUM is an interactive museum on the topic of technology. Take a look at their website to get insight on the different exhibitions (https://tlm-mv.de/english/). Wismar can easily be reached by train, which is why we will take the train from Rostock Hauptbahnhof at 09:06am on track 10. We’ll be at PhanTECHNIKUM at around 10:45am and spend approximately 2,5 hours there. After that, we can grab some lunch and take a stroll through the beautiful city of Wismar. Depending on everyone’s wishes, we could take the train back home to Rostock around 5pm or later.

A singular trainticket is around 8 EUR, but if enough people join, we can buy a cheaper group ticket. The ticket for the museum is 10 EUR for adults, 6EUR if you have a student ID!

Feel free to bring friends, partners, kids!

Registration is not needed, see you at Rostock central station

Join us for our day trip by train to Stralsund!
We want to explore the Ozeaneum and the city and get to know each other. Departure is at 9.00 am from Rostock main station. Once we arrive in Stralsund, we will go straight to the museum. Afterwards there is the possibility to explore Stralsund alone or together. We will return to Rostock in the late afternoon. Bring your friends, partners and children!

• Destination: Stralsund
• Date: Saturday, 29 April 2023
  • Departure: 9.00 am
  • Return: 5 pm (6 pm arrival in Rostock)
• Price: 16 - 26 €
  • Railway: 9 €
  • Ozeaneum: 12 € (student), 17 € (adults), 0-7 € (children)
• Registration: until 24 April to welcome-centeruni-rostockde

Living and working in Germany - Intercultural training for international PhD students and researchers

• Date:     Friday, 28 January 2022, 09:00 am – 04:30 pm
• Where:  Parkstraße 6, Global Café (Room 220), 18057 Rostock (In case current regulations won't allow a training in presence, we will relocate the training to zoom.)
• Intercultural trainer: Katja Striegler, Christin Zimmer (IQ Netzwerk Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
• Language: English
• Participants: 6 to 16 PhD students, postdocs and guest researchers
• Participation fee: free of charge
• Sign up: until 21 January 2022 via welcome-centeruni-rostockde (subject: "Intercultural Training")

To successfully tackle the challenges of multicultural academic and professional life, PhD students and researchers have to be able to manage intercultural situations and emerging conflicts effectively. Developing the capacity to mediate differing cultural perspectives is a key determinant of intercultural competence.

Designed as an interactive workshop, the training will provide international PhD students and researchers of the University of Rostock with essential cross-cultural skills for building relationships and working effectively in a multicultural environment. Using hands-on exercises and simulation role-plays, participants will gain an understanding of values and attitudes in German academic life, identify and analyse their personal approaches to different intercultural challenges and increase their intercultural awareness and competence. The participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own culture, discuss personal experiences, ask questions and exchange their views with the other participants.

Content:

• Culture and cultural differences with a focus on academic life
• Developing intercultural awareness and intercultural competence
• Adapting to a new culture
• Stereotypes and prejudice
• Values and attitudes in German academic life
• Communication styles and language issues
• Cross-cultural management skills
• Good practice for cross-cultural situations at university