Episode 9: Welcome Center
The Welcome Center is an information and advisory service for newly arrived staff who have questions about life in Switzerland, in the region and at BFH. Our aim is to make your new start as smooth as possible and provide you with the information necessary to achieve this. Find out more about our services and get to know two former clients and the responsible of the Welcome Center.
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Episode 8: Continuing education – in Europe
Two members of staff from the University Didactics & E-learning subject area completed training abroad in 2018. Luca Bösch spent two weeks at the Open University in the UK and increased his knowledge of Moodle. During a week spent at the Heidelberg University of Education, Andy Hediger focused on various topics, such as IT and mathematics teaching.
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Episode 7: Certificate of Global Competence
During his studies, Alexander Post, who studied social work, developed intercultural and transcultural competencies to gain the BFH supplementary Certificate of Global Competence. He now uses these skills in his work for social services, where he frequently encounters different cultures.
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Episode 6: An Austrian in Switzerland
In Episode 6, we hear from Lukas Samwald. He studied civil engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and spent one semester at AHB. What will he miss most? Carnival music and Fasnachtschüechli carnival cakes.
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Episode 5: Studying and working in Switzerland
Michail Kyriazopoulos gives us an insight into his work at BFH. Originally from Greece, he gained his master’s in Wood Technology from AHB in Biel in May 2016. He is currently working as a full-time research assistant and lives in Switzerland.
This episode was produced by Ina Navahrodskaya, an MA student of Communication Design at Bern University of the Arts HKB.
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Episode 4: Finding your future at BFH
Daniela Prozorovscaia gives us an insight into her life as a student in Switzerland. She was born in Moldova but moved to Portugal at the age of 10, where she lived up until 18 months ago. Daniela now lives in Switzerland and is enrolled on the Food, Nutrition and Health master’s programme in Zollikofen.
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Episode 3: Study trip to Shanghai
Jacqueline Ducret and Paul Ammann (Executive MBA in International Management, BFH-TI) report on the study trips to China offered to students on the EMBA programme. Anyone with a company operating in an international environment needs to understand cultural backgrounds, the relevant conditions in its business partners’ countries and how personal networks work. International agility is one of the major goals of graduates of EMBA programmes. The study trips give participants a unique insight into companies and universities in China, and they are full of enthusiasm upon their return.
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Episode 2: From Bern to Hawassa and back
Daniel Gobeli, a former lecturer in strategic management in the Business department reports on his experiences of the Young Entrepreneur Exchange Project (YEEP). Students from Hawassa University and Bern University of Applied Sciences are working on business ideas from Ethiopia. YEEP aims to use intercultural exchange and knowledge transfer to teach entrepreneurial thinking to young Ethiopians.
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Episode 1: Exploring BFH as an exchange student
In the first episode, we meet Shashvat Kapoor. He is 20 years old, grew up in India, and is studying International Business at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences in Finland. He spent a year on an Erasmus placement with the International Office of the Health Professions department.
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