Freie Universität Berlin is a leading research institution. It is one of nine German universities that met with success all three funding lines in the federal and state Excellence Initiative, thereby receiving additional funding for its institutional future development strategy. Freie Universität can thus take its place as an “International Network university” in the global competition among universities. Its future development strategy is focused around three strategic centers: for cluster development, for international exchange, and for graduate studies. Development and assessment of research projects takes place within three major focus areas – area studies, humanities, and life sciences. Freie Universität has various offices abroad, e.g., in New York, Beijing, and Moscow, that provide a platform for international cooperation. The university’s performance in the Excellence Initiative has provided funding for several new graduate schools and transdisciplinary research clusters.
Founded in 1948 the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), with 34.000 students being the largest of the 3 Berlin universities, offers more than 90 programmes of study, i.e. the entire spectrum associated with a traditional university (except Engineering).
(http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/tour/index.html) FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Freie Universität Berlin is one of five veterinary schools in Germany and has a history of over 40 years in postgraduate training in tropical veterinary medicine and international animal health. Its Postgraduate Studies in International Animal Health are the executing institution for all international training programmes.
(http://www.vetmed.fuberlin.de/en/einrichtungen/zentrale/postgrad/fachrichtung/index.html) Since 1992, international postgraduate training at Master (MSc) level in epidemiology und preventive veterinary medicine as well as in veterinary public health was offered. These training programmes led to the academic degree of a Master of Science in Tropical Veterinary Epidemiology (MSc TVE) or in Veterinary Public Health (MSc VPH).
As from 1996, a new Master Course Concept is successively being implemented with each master programme jointly executed with partner universities and veterinary institutions in a respective geographic region and leading to master degrees jointly conferred by the partner universities.
The Faculties of Veterinary Medicine of the two universities, Freie Universität Berlin and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, launched the 1st joint postgraduate master programme in tropical veterinary epidemiology, specifically addressing the training needs of veterinarians from East African countries, as a “sandwich programme” in 1996.
This programme received substantial financial support by the German Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) through its executing agency the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) until the completion of the 3rd Joint MSc Course in December 2001.
With the Chiang Mai University in Thailand being the partner university in the Southeast Asian region a new master programme in „Veterinary Public Health“ (MVPH), supported under the EU – EduLink Programme, is jointly executed since 2003 ( http://www.vphcap.org/). Course accreditation by the AHPGS, a member of the German Accreditation Council, was granted in 2005. At present the 3rd MVPH Course is in full swing; in the first two courses 17 veterinarians from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Bhutan, PR China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Nepal were successfully graduated.
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Freie Universität Berlin now is strongly grounded in international postgraduate education and training in animal health and veterinary public health offering respective services for a multitude of countries, projects and target groups
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