by Andrea Döring
Time is money. Many students lack both. A scholarship can help them to successfully complete their studies anyway. On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Professor Dr. Gunther Piller, President of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, symbolically presented 39 students with the Deutschlandstipendium. For one year, an additional 300 euros per month will flow into the accounts of the young people, who have distinguished themselves through good grades and social commitment, among other things. Companies, institutions and private donors finance the support with 150 euros per month, the other half is paid by the federal government. The Deutschlandstipendium has been in existence for eleven years. Ludwigshafen University has been involved in the Germany-wide program for just as long. Many sponsors took the time to celebrate with their protégés in the university's auditorium and foyer.
Being there fast where it burns. Logistics student Felix Fillibeck not only uses his skills at the university, but also with the volunteer fire department in Neustadt. The 22-year-old finances his studies with a job as a student trainee, among other things. "With the scholarship, I will have to work less during the exam period and will be able to study more," he says happily. With his mother Jutta Fillibeck and his girlfriend Michelle Kalina, he keeps an eye out for his sponsors, the Nick couple, whom he has never met. After the ceremony, the five got together.
"We want to give time to the students," says pharmacist Ute Nick, explaining her commitment. "Because the young people deserve it," adds chemist Bernhard Nick. The couple has three grown-up children. "It is difficult for many children to finance their studies," Ute Nick knows. After the toast, Felix Fillibeck unwraps the package that University President Piller presented to the students along with the scholarship certificate. "The melting clock by Dalí," he can immediately categorize the gift. "The Permanence of Memory," or "The Soft Clocks," is the name of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí's best-known painting from 1931.
According to Dalí, the melting of a Camembert on a hot day inspired him to create this work. Leah Röhm saves cheese, sausage, fruit and many other foods from spoiling. At Foodsharing, the 23-year-old student of international business administration with a focus on management volunteers her time. "We have already saved 1900 kilograms of food," she says proudly. But she also gets involved in supporting foreign students and on university information days. Next semester, she plans to do an internship abroad in Ireland. "Apartments are very expensive in Ireland," she reports. Money from electrical wholesaler Moster, her sponsor and the federal government will help pay for the internship.
"We don't pick, we just pay," explains Rüdiger Burkhard, training manager at Siemens Betriebskrankenkasse, with a wink. With his protégé, health economics student Susan Claire Christ, 28, and her professor Dr. Manfred Erbsland, he waits at the lovingly decorated bar tables for the ceremony. An independent committee selects the scholarship recipients from the applications. There are many more women than men. But the sponsors don't just have to pay, they can also win through their commitment. Getting to know future specialists at an early stage, deepening the network between business and science, living social responsibility, thus becoming better known, and being able to claim sponsorship money against tax are some of the advantages with which the university advertises the program.
Grantees and sponsors alike are pleased. "The commitment of the young people makes us happy. I can look positively into the future," says Ute Nick, describing her feelings after the ceremony. Many people are very pessimistic in view of the world situation, she says. But Nick believes, "The young people will find the way to shape the future."
The squad of sponsors at HWG LU also remains positive and is steadily supporting the university's students this year:
- MLP Finanzberatung SE,
- Lotto Foundation RLP,
- Meininger Publishing House,
- Karl Joseph Wagner Foundation,
- University Council of the HWG LU,
- Förderverein Gesundheitsökonomie an der HWG LU,
- Equality of the HWG LU
- Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences
- HR Consulting GmbH,
- Sparkasse Vorderpfalz
- Schloss Wachenheim AG.
- sebena Naumann e.K.,
- MOSTER Elektrogroßhandelsgesell. mbH
- TRANSFORM8 GmbH
- BASF
- Diakonissen-Stiftungs Hospital Speyer
- as well as three private sponsors.
Many thanks to all of them for their great support!
More information about the German Scholarship at HWG LU
Contact:
Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences
Sabine Tarulli
Contact person for the Germany Scholarship
Tel.: 0621/5203-124
E-mail: deutschlandstipendium@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de
