International

Studierende mit Blütenschmuck
© Marie Hense

International partnerships

A semester abroad can enrich individual studies and provide new insights and experiences. It also offers the opportunity to get to know a foreign country and its culture. This makes it an experience that enriches not only your studies, but your entire life. To enable students to do this, the Department of Textile Studies maintains a variety of partnerships with the following international universities:

Erasmus Partner:

Other partners:

The Erasmus Programm offers support for a one- to two-semester study visit to a European partner university:

  • Monthly Erasmus grant (amount varies depending on country group)

  • Recognition of credits earned while studying abroad

  • Support infrastructure for international students at the host university

  • Stay and funding opportunities for up to twelve month

Before applying for a stay abroad, please note:

  • please visit the partner university's website to find out about study conditions, the range of courses on offer, semester dates, and language requirements.
  • as the cooperation is with a specific department, you must assume that you will only be able to study within that department at the partner university.
  • Erasmus students are generally not allowed to stay abroad longer than the agreed period.

Further information: Mareike Tudor/Office for Study Abroad & International Cooperation|School of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences, Seminarstraße 33, D-49074 Osnabrück, GERMANY, +49 (0)541 969-4381

 https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/fb1/international/

Photo: Marie Hense

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Lucia Schwalenberg Bärbel Schmidt Maya Kipiani in der Staatlichen Akademie der Künste Tiblisi
© Staatliche Akademie der Künste Tiblisi

Georgia cooperation travel

Textile culture at the crossroads between West and East

Textile culture, the cultural heritage blue print and the crossroads between East and West were the main topics for a cooperation trip to Georgia by Prof.in Bärbel Schmidt and her research assistant Lucia Schwalenberg. Countries like Georgia at the interface between Europe and Asia are characterized by a multi-layered approach in relation to cultural history, contemporary design and the challenges of the Post Soviet Age. Georgia strives to revive manual and industrial skills and techniques. Universities and cultural institutions research and activate textile techniques such as blue printing, felting, weaving and silk processing. These techniques are taught at the State Art Academy in Tbilisi and supported by a growing number of textile artists and institutions such as the UNESCO. The cooperation travel was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD to prepare for mobility projects with partner countries. In order to continue the project, concrete cooperation options will be explored with the State Academy of Arts, its experimental research laboratory for Blauprint/Lurja Supra, the State Silk Museum and regional textile artists and other possible institutions.

Photo: State Academy of the Arts Tiblisi

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TextiieLab im Textilmuseum Tilburg, Niederlande
© Bärbel Schmidt

Netherlands and Belgium cooperation travel

Textile Studies, Craft Education and Makerspaces

Textile Studies, Craft Education and Makerspaces was the focus of a coopertion travel from Textiles Studies Department to Netherlands and Belgium. The travel was funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, through the support program INTENSIVinternational that aims at strengthening the cooperation between European countries. The goal of the Textile Studies program at Osnabrück University is to train future textile teachers, stimulate the students' curiosity and excitement for textiles, and encourage further studies of textile culture. The Textile Studies department offers a setting where the students experience that knowledge is unlimited and learnig is for life.

Poto: Bärbel Schmidt

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Nahaufnahme Klöppeln
© Lucia Schwalenberg

Finland cooperation travel

Funded by the Lower Saxony Minstry for Science and Culture

Textile Studies, Craft Education and Makerspaces was the focus of a coopertion travel from Textiles Studies Department to universities and institutions in Finland.  The travel was funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, through the support program INTENSIVinternationa that aims at strengthening the cooperation between European countries in the full amount of Euro 10.000. The project will nun be proceeded by concreting the cooperation and exploring cooperation option between Finnish Universities, Osnabrück University as Lower Saxony University and the Textile Research Centre in Leiden/Netherlands.

The goal of the Textile Studies program at Osnabrück University is to train future textile teachers, stimulate the students' curiosity and excitement for textiles, and encourage further studies of textile culture. The Textile Studies department offers a setting where the students experience that knowledge is unlimited and learnig is for life.

Nordic countries like Finland are pursuing a holistic approach to Craft Education. They treasure lifelong learning, which is cross-generational, corss-cultural and interdisciplinary. In addition to finding this learning methodology in the different schools and universities across Finland, it is also embedded in the Craft Organisation Taito and several pop-up Makerspaces. International contact partners in Universities in Finland are Rovaniemi, Turku/Rauma und Helsinki/Eespo.

Poto: Lucia Schwalenberg

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