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I took office as President of the DAAD at the beginning of 2008, having been elected by the members of the DAAD in the summer of the previous year. This report about 2007 therefore deals with the final year of office of my predecessor, Professor Theodor Berchem. My colleague Professor Berchem led and formed the DAAD for five terms of office over a total of 20 years, while also serving as the President of the University of Würzburg. We paid tribute to his work, which turned the DAAD into one of the largest and most successful academic exchange organisations world wide with over 1.4 million funding recipients in total, with a farewell celebration in Bonn in December 2007 and with a “Festschrift”, to which about 50 renowned authors from around the world contributed.

In 2007 the DAAD was once again able to increase its number of funding recipients to over 56,000, thanks to a welcome increase in its funding to a total of EURO 280 million. In addition to this, 22 new programmes could be launched, including some in cooperation with foreign governments. This pleasing development has increased this year too.

The importance of internationalisation is now not only evident to international organisations, but has also been perceived more clearly by those with political responsibility. Both the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, AA) as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, BMZ) have developed their own internationalisation strategies. German universities have also made considerable progress in this area, although there remains a lot to be done if they want to keep up with the growing competition from the old and especially the new rivals on the global education market. The active support provided by the DAAD is thus set to continue to grow in importance.

You can download the English version of the DAAD's "Annual Report 2007 (Summary)" as a PDF document (1,55 MB).

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