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After the defeat of the Taliban regime and the establishment of the new government in Afghanistan, the oldest academic cooperation of the IEE – that with the University of Kabul – saw its revival in 2002. Read the fascinating story behind a partnership that goes back to the very roots of the Institute and which spreads nowadays beyond Kabul to the universities of Balkh (Mazar-i'-Sharif), Herat, Nangarhar (Jalalabad), Khost, Kandahar and Bamyan.
Visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, H.E. President Hamid Karzai, at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Spring 2007
Photo: H.E. President Karzai signing the University's Golden Book; Prof. Dr. Elmar Rector of RUB.
Visit of the Minister of Higher Education of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, H.E. Dr. Mohammad Azam Dadfar, at the RUB in Winter 2008
Photo (from left to right): Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Loewenstein, H.E. Minister Dr. Mohammad Azam Dadfar, Dr. Sami Noor, Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler
(photo: Meike Drießen)
The Afghan Minister of Higher Education was informed by Prof. Dr. Loewenstein and his staff about past efforts and future perspectives in academic cooperation between RUB and Afghan universities discussed at a two-day workshop and conference on "Strengthening Higher Education in Management and Economics in Afghanistan" in November 2008.
Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Presse-Info (Link)
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