Foundation and Articles

The founding of uni-assist

uni-assist e.V. was founded as an association on 4th November 2003 by 41 universities, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the HRK (German Rectors' Conference (HRK). The association was registered in June 2004. The founding of the association was planned during a two-year period, for the most part by a Berlin-Brandenburg team and later a „Masterplan” group. The work of the association officially started on 1st December 2003 in the new office of Helmholtzstraße 2-9, 10587 Berlin under the direction of Thomas Liljeberg.

Elected president is Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadtmüller, Prof. Dr. Karin Luckey of the Hochschule Bremen (Bremen University of Applied Sciences) is elected vice-president.

The managing committee of uni-assist consists of:

Dr. Dorothea Rüland, secretary general of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Prof. Dr. Karin Luckey, rector of the Hochschule Bremen

Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee, president of the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Sagerer, rector of the Universität of Bielefeld

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stadtmüller, vice president of the University of Ulm

Prof. Dr. Thomas Strothotte, Rektor der Universität Regensburg

Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, president of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK)

Since the founding of the association, the number of uni-assist member universities has continually increased.

As of March 2011, the number of member universities has increased from 41 to 128. All in all, universities from all 16 Bundesländer (German states/counties) are members of uni-assist. Half of all students in Germany apply for admission to member universities of uni-assist.
Uni-assist is generally open to all German universities.

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