The programme prepares school pupils and secondary school graduates with outstanding school performance linguistically, subject-specifically and learning-culturally in a targeted manner for direct entry into a bachelor's degree programme at a German partner university in a MINT subject (mathematics, information technology, natural sciences, technology) or in the subject of economics. This preparation also includes insight into German teaching, learning and campus culture and introduces students to the social environment. After successfully completing all modules of the programme and graduating from secondary school in their home country, prospective students can apply to selected German partner universities.
The programme was created on the basis of an amendment to the Higher Education Act in North Rhine-Westphalia: In order to study at German universities, prospective students from non-EU countries often have to have studied in their home country or completed a preparatory year at a preparatory college and passed the assessment test. The amendment to the law makes direct access to German universities possible after obtaining a university entrance certificate under certain conditions.
The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is one of the central partners of the programme and cooperates as one of the universities of the University Alliance Ruhr with the Goethe-Institut and the DAAD.
