19/11/2021
After the Transcultural Student Research Trip to Poland and Duisburg, the participants in the Transcultural Student Research Group | TSRG 2021 on the topic “The Impacts of the BRI on Europe” met again in person at Zeppelin Universität in the context of the Transcultural Winter School. Five Polish students and two representatives of our cooperation partner from the Instytut Boyma came to Friedrichshafen for this occasion.
The Winter School took place from the 8th to the 12th of November and consisted of a full immersion week with methodological and theoretical workshops and lectures, the attendance in the Karl Schlecht Forum on “Good Leadership”, the attendance in the Transcultural Leadership Summit on “Perspectives from Southeast Asia” and cultural activities such as a visit to Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen.
The theoretical inputs included a keynote from Professor Dafri Agussalim from the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) on “ASEAN Cross-Region Cooperation: Mapping the Way Towards Identity Building”,, a lecture with Professor Niedenführ on “BRI: Globalization with Chinese Characteristics?”, and a workshop with Tobias Campoverde on “Leadership Concepts”. The methods workshops were designed to prepare the students for the next steps of their research projects and included inputs from Dr Christofer Köhler on “Empirical Research and Data Analysis” and a workshop by Dr Dominik Fisher and Jessica G. Schwengber on “Academic Writing - Book Chapter”. The students also had the opportunity to present their research topics to an international audience at the Transcultural Caravan Network Meeting. The Transcultural Winter School ended with the above mentioned Transcultural Leadership Summit with additional panels, keynote discussions and workshops.
Our thanks go to the organizers Jessica G. Schwengber from the Transcultural Caravan at LEIZ, ZU, Patrycja Pendrakowska and Pawel Berendt from the Instytut Boyma, to all the lectures that contributed to the Winter School, and to our Sponsors MVK and Rolls Royce Power Systems.