ConRuhr
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ConRuhr (Consortium of the Ruhr-Universities) is the German academic liaison office that was established in 2004 by the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Dortmund University of Technology and the University of Duisburg-Essen. The three universities are located very close to each other in Germany’s Ruhr area and characterized by a strong collaboration and joint initiatives.
With its seat in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, ConRuhr’s primary purpose is to encourage educational internationalization by exchanging researchers, teaching staff and students between the three universities and American institutions, finding and linking contacts in the US and Germany, as well as promoting the Ruhr area as a center of academic excellence.
ConRuhr is one of several German liaison offices established through an initiative by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which accepted combined applications from institutions of higher educations and now supports the selected offices with already established contacts and office space.
