The Students Programm Baden-Württemberg (STUBE)

The abbreviation STUBE stands for the Student Support Program for students from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

There are more than 34,000 foreign students in Baden-Württemberg, ca. 54 % of whom (ca. 18.600) come from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

STUBE primarily concentrates on development related issues and is an organisation for, with and comprising of students from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

STUBE Baden-Württemberg was founded in 1983 in order to offer a development-oriented supplement to university education which is tailored towards the needs of an industrialized nation and which therefore does not meet the requirements of a career in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

It supports for students in their efforts to orientate their studies to the requirements of their home countries and thereby create the conditions necessary for their future career integration in their home- country.

STUBE is a project which is financed by the Department of Trade and Industry in Baden-Württemberg, the protestant churches in Baden and Württemberg, Bread for the World and the diocese of  Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

STUBE-BW is maintained by Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll (www.ev-akademie-boll.de)

What the STUBE-BW Program has to offer:

• Weekend seminars and intercultural workshops for orientation of foreign students and their subsequent reintegration
• Introduction to specific development-related topics
• Contact to development agencies, non-governmental organisations, relevant political institutions and companies
• Supporting development-related educational initiatives by active students
• Contact network for former students
• Career preparatory, practice-oriented study visits (BPSA)

 
Key Characteristics of STUBE-BW’s work are:

• Student participation 
• Practice oriented and a combination of theory and practice
• Interdisciplinary and intercultural orientation
• Forum for contact and exchange between students from the Africa, Asia and Latin America and facilitation of networking
• A development-oriented supplement to university education which is not usually tailored to meet the development requirements in the country of origin of the student
• Sensitization and qualification of students on development issues.
• Supporting students as they strive to orient their studies to the needs of their home conditions, and helping them acquire the necessary qualifications to assure their career reintegration back home

STUBE-BW TEAM

The STUBE team is composed of one consultant and a part-time secretariat employee.

Angelika Weber, born in Heidelberg
(Consultant)

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• Qualifications: Degree in Ethnology, Sociology and Political Science, thereafter: self-employed in the area of adult education
• 1993-1995 Head of a DED Hygiene project in Benin, West Africa
• 1996-1999 International Secretariat of FIAN, a human rights organisation, Heidelberg (Asia and Educational work)
• 1999-2001 Africa and Middle East Department at EMS, Stuttgart
  • Since March 2001 - Director of Studies at STUBE- Baden Württemberg, Focus Areas: Intercultural Communication, business, social and cultural human rights and in particular the right to food, global trade, WTO, environmental and gender issues
  • Publications:

1. Various articles dealing with ethnological issues and issues related to social human rights
2. Th.Frey/D. Haller/A. Weber "Meeting- Understanding- Acting"
    Handbook for Intercultural Communication Training, Frankfurt 1995

• Volunteer work:

1. Creation of a hand book for teachers on human rights education (Focus: The Right to Food)

 
Simon Lademann, Secretariat