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Dr. Brigitte Kürsteiner

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Dr. Brigitte Kürsteiner Leiterin Global Engagement Office

Contact

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Office of the Vice-President Research
    Global Engagement Office
    Falkenplatz 16
    3012 Bern

Activities

  • Government of the Global Engagement Unit

  • Development of global strategic core areas

  • Monitoring of global educational policies and politics

  • Content analysis of strategic issues

  • Content expertise of issues of global engagement​

  • Content expertise of global competences

  • Project management of the Pioneer Alliance at BFH

  • Country strategies

  • Risk management

  • Multilateral programs (Interreg)

  • Global competence development

CV

  • Dr. Brigitte Kürsteiner is the Head of the Global Engagement Unit at Berne University of Applied Science, the local coordinator of the PIONEER university alliance and a researcher at the Hugo P. Cecchini Institute. She is a former lecturer and researcher at the Departement of Geography of the University of Teacher Education, Luzern and a former high school teacher. She has a master’s degree in Geography from the University of Berne and a Master of Advanced Study in Intercultural Communications from the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Finally, she obtained a PhD in Social Politics at the University of Fribourg in the field of international education. Her research interests cover mobility learning, institutional transformation and European Higher Education Policy.
  • 2024 - today Local coordinator of the PIONEER alliance Berne University of Applied Sciences
  • June 2023 - today Head of Global Engament Unit Berne University of Applied Science
  • 2014 - 2024 University lecturer University of Teacher Education Lucerne
  • 2007-2023 Director of International Relations and International Education University of Teacher Education Lucerne
  • 2021-2023 Head of Core Area Global Issues Teaching University of Teacher Education Lucerne
  • 2003-2007 Program Manager University of Fribourg
  • 1999-2003 Assistant State Secretariat of Economic Affairs
  • 1994-1999 Teacher Secondary schools in the Canton of Bern
  • 2022 Doctor of Philosophy University of Fribourg
  • 2014 Master of Advanced Studies in Intercultural Communication Università della Svizzera Italiana
  • 2001 Master of Science in Geography Universität Bern
  • Representative of Swissuniversities in the UAS4Europe expert group

Memberships

  • Vice rectorate Research

  • Vice Rectorate Education

  • Hugo P. Cecchini Institut

  • European Association for International Education (EAIE)

  • Pioneer Alliance

  • Member of Cluster of Cooperation East Afica and the Horn, Swissuniversities

  • Swiss Society for African Studies https://www.sagw.ch/africa/

  • Hochschulverband für Geographiedidaktik https://geographiedidaktik.org/

  • International Relations of the Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swissuniversities

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French - Full professional proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish - Elementary proficiency
  • France
  • Switzerland
  • Cameroon
  • Ghana
  • Tanzania, United Republic of