Springboard for international students and researchers: Düsseldorf Welcome Day showed perspectives

Universities, City Hall, IHK, MPIE and Henkel want to keep international students and researchers in the Wissensregion Düsseldorf after their graduation and stay. The second Welcome Day for international students and researchers in the Wissensregion Düsseldorf took place with 30 students and researchers on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Tech.Hub Düsseldorf.
Christian Zaum, Head of the Department of Economics, Law, Fire and Health of the state capital Düsseldorf, personally welcomed the young representatives from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Robert Schumann University, Otto Beisheim School of Management (WHU), the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research and the German Diabetes Center to the Düsseldorf Tech.Hub.
His concern and that of the participating universities: promising students and researchers from abroad should remain in the Wissensregion Düsseldorf as specialists after their education. Managing Director of the Wissensregion Düsseldorf e.V. association, Dr. Kai de Weldige: “In the Wissensregion Düsseldorf, it is important to us not only to provide international students and researchers with a good professional education. We also want to introduce them to excellent career opportunities at an early stage so that they can apply the knowledge they have acquired in the region’s companies and research institutions.”
This concern is also supported by the IHK Düsseldorf.
Together with the universities and well-known global players such as Henkel and the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, the participants are given an insight into their options for making the transition from university to work.
In three different workshops, knowledge and information on the topics of intercultural training and the Düsseldorf labor market were imparted, and questions to the Düsseldorf Foreigners’ Registration Office were discussed under its leadership.
(See detailed information in the program attached).
The lectures and workshops also served the purpose of networking with each other.
Master’s students from countries such as Turkey, India, Malaysia, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Russia got to know each other better and made their first important contacts.
A guided tour of Düsseldorf’s old town and a visit to the Christmas market rounded off the day with cultural and culinary delights.
The Welcome Day is one of a series of events (“Innovation Semester”, “Come & Cooperate”) organized jointly by universities, companies and chambers to show young people that they are supported within the Wissensregion Düsseldorf and can grow together with others.