Double Honorary Professorship
for the Rector of the Universität Hohenheim [21.11.05]
Prof. Dr. Profs. h.c. Hans-Peter Liebig receives accolades from the leading Agricultural Universities in China and Russia
The honorary professorships conferred on the Rector of the Universität Hohenheim, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Liebig, by the China Agricultural University in Beijing and the Russian University of Stavropol are in appreciation of his work to date and a sign of the deepening cooperation between the universities. Both universities are the leading agricultural universities in China and Russia, according to national rankings. “I am exceptionally pleased to have received both accolades, particularly against the background of our strategy to involve the Universität Hohenheim in a small number of select collaborations with the very best partners,“ comments Prof. Dr. Profs. hc. Hans-Peter Liebig. He will therefore be complying with his “honorary” teaching obligations with pleasure.One of the earliest Sino-German cooperative relationships has linked the Universität Hohenheim with the China Agricultural University for over 25 years. The first Sino-German Research Training Group, currently being run by both universities, serves as a model project and a joint Master’s course in Agricultural Science is also being planned. Only last year the Friendship Award was conferred on Prof. Dr. Liebig, the highest award to a foreign citizen by the People’s Republic of China.
The Universität Hohenheim is currently running one of many university reform projects in Central and Eastern Europe in the Southern Russian University of Stavropol, with the aim of raising academic education to a pan-European level. The Universität Hohenheim is extending its contacts and intensifying its collaboration with Central European and Eastern European countries with its Eastern European Centre. Further collaborative contracts in the fields of Natural Science, Agricultural Science and Economic Science are already in place with universities, academies and research institutions in Hungary (Gödöllö), the Czech Republic (Prague), Slovakia (Nitra), Poland (Warsaw/Poznan), Lithuania (Kaunas), Romania (Timisoara), Bucharest (Cluj-Napoca), Russia (Moscow/St. Petersburg, Samara) and the Ukraine (Kiev).