Why travel to distant lands?

Not everyone is able, or even wants, to spend time abroad - especially as not every course of study includes a compulsory semester abroad. And in any case: anyone who stays in Münster can get to know other cultures and bring the great wide world into their own homes - with the Buddy Programme. Since the early 1990s the International Office, as a central institution, has been looking after ERASMUS students. The so-called Buddy Programme was devised in 2003 in order to provide them with as much wide-ranging support and assistance as possible, and to promote integration. A Münster student accompanies a student from abroad to various free-time activities, shows him or her both the University and the city of Münster, and is always available as someone the foreign student can. In this way, friendships for life can be formed - the finest kind of internationalization. A case in point is Emelie Davidson from Norrköping in Sweden, doing Business Studies, and Johanna Ettemeyer, studying Medicine in Münster.