Alina Prince is a medical student at the University of Bern. She serves as co-president on the Student Board of the European University alliance ENLIGHT. In this interview, she talks about why she is passionate about involving students in ENLIGHT and how she has overcome her fear of networking.
Paola Sofía Serrano Bravo is researching for a PhD in sustainability and science communication at the University of Galway. She attended the ENLIGHT Joint Course “Waste Semiotics: Language, Materiality, Space” at the University of Bern. In this interview, she discusses the experience of taking an ENLIGHT Joint Course and reveals what surprised her most about Bern.
Valentin Schneuwly is a political science student at the University of Bern. He spent a semester studying at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Valentin experienced first-hand how the war in Ukraine is causing tensions that can be felt in Estonian domestic politics, on campus and in everyday life.
Leo Ringel cycled 600 kilometres to start his exchange semester at the University of Bern. He was studying for a Bachelor of Education at the University of Bonn, specialising in Geography and Physics. In this interview, he talks about what motivated him along the way and what surprised him about Switzerland.
Almost every day the world wakes up to news from the tech sector, currently driven by the latest developments in artificial intelligence. These changes affect how academics research, teach and how students learn. Through networking, such as in The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, academics share solutions and pool their strengths to find new solutions to new challenges.
Doing an exchange opened a window to another culture for Julia Good. A political science and public administration student at the University of Bern. She spent a semester at Keio University in Japan. In this interview, she talks about learning to live in a different culture, experiencing a Zen meditation and making a friend for life.
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships narrowly escape drastic funding cuts
The Swiss Parliament was all but set on cutting half of the funding for the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships (ESKAS). This funding programme supports researchers from all over the world to pursue doctoral or postdoctoral research in Switzerland.
At the General Meeting in Bern, 140 members of all ENLIGHT member universities discussed the long-term vision for the alliance. Albrecht Vorster and Carolina Gutiérrez from the Department of Neurology at Bern University Hospital gave a keynote speech on brain health and the importance of sleep.
Pelin Koyuncu attended the ENLIGHT summer school “Game Design in Health Care and Education”. She developed an app that motivates people to exercise and stay physically active. In this interview, she discusses how she combines her passion for gaming with her psychology studies at the University of Bern, and explains why an ENLIGHT hybrid course offers a unique experience.
Richa is always shocked when people express surprise at the fact that she works in IT. She is studying for the Swiss Joint Master of Science in Computer Science at the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel and Fribourg. In this interview, she talks about living her Bollywood dream, the gender gap in IT and why she passionately believes that more women should study computer science.