Kassel-based WindMINT project receives Stifterverband award

The University of North Hesse already offers the online master's degree program Wind Energy Systems (WES), which trains wind energy specialists. The WindMINT project expands the opportunities for foreign participants in this degree program. They can study online from their home countries and now additionally work in several on-site project phases in Germany. In doing so, they use the laboratories of the University of Kassel, the Fraunhofer Institutes IEE in Kassel and IWES in Bremerhaven and familiarize themselves with the German job market.

The award bonus amounts to 50,000 euros. The money will be used to create new staff positions for the project and pay travel expenses for foreign students.

"About 44 percent of all foreign students in Germany return to their home country after their studies or drop out," says Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Kuhl, head of the Department of Construction Mechanics/Building Dynamics and the WES program at Kassel University. "This means they are lost to the German labor market as skilled workers." WindMINT, he said, is a way to interest them in jobs in wind power in Germany. "But the project was developed in such a way that it can also be transferred to other technical degree programs."

The abbreviation MINT refers to the subjects of mathematics, computer science, natural science and technology.

Contact:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Kuhl
University of Kassel
Department 14 Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Construction Mechanics/Building Dynamics
Tel.: +49 561 804-1815
E-mail: kuhl[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
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