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Arabic weekend in Frankfurt to the taster. Frankfurt am Main, 12.08.2013 – businesses in the Gulf region, especially in the KSA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in the UAE United boom continue – for more than 40 years. It attracts many German organisations, companies and businessmen and individuals increasingly after Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Manama, Muscat or Riyadh and Jeddah, to make there successful businesses or finding professional success at local businesses. English is widely used in the Gulf region and local business partners may have because many of them usually at least a few scraps to good English, also in Europe or America studied. However, good interpreters needed are long and difficult negotiations, which are limited to specific areas. A direct communication is not possible, because both partners communicate in their mother tongue, but the common second language English.

Linguistic misunderstandings and intercultural False conclusions in logic can occur more frequently. They are even on the agenda. Despite the strong influence of the Western world and the advance of the English language, Arabic is still the undisputed national language in the Gulf region. Priceless bonuses can, however, have Europeans for themselves, if they can some words, simple phrases and sentences in Arabic. A warm and open communication at eye level is enabling and foreigners get the due respect of their local business partners. Arabic is the fourth most commonly spoken language in the world, spoken by about 340 million people as a first or second language in more than 24 States (Mashreq, North Africa and Gulf region). Arabic is regarded as analytic, although not as a simple language. After relatively short study time (3-6 months) you can who use simple sentences and phrases, recognize car signs, read road signs or reasonably rightly found in everyday life. When the Arab weekend on August 24-25 in Frankfurt am main Interested get a first overview of life and work, behavior and mentality as well as the current situation in Arabia especially in the Gulf region.

These are students who delight in schools for their subjects and to take the young people the fear of technical subjects. The 70 scholarships, which will be paid from October students of the universities of Hohenheim, Stuttgart and Tubingen and the Hochschule fur Technik (HFT) Stuttgart, and the Hochschule Esslingen, are predominantly Germany scholarships”with a range of 300 euros per month. Half of the money is thereby made available by the Foundation, raised the other half of the State. For the allocation of grants, the respective college even cares to specially defined criteria that take into account the performance, social commitment, or the social background of students. Personal contact between the Foundation and scholarship recipients of the financial assistance, the plaster-Weiss Foundation maintains personal contact with your fellows.

We have in the last year of The Board of Directors of Thomas Ducree tells Fellows celebration participated and the students that we support to us in the Foundation invited so that the contact is maintained,”. Also at this year’s gala event the plaster-Weiss Foundation scholarship recipients and Fellows will be guest: on 23 October the plaster SAFA research endowed with 40,000 euros award technical progress for the first time. Awards is an interdisciplinary research project with particularly high innovation potential that is from sustainable benefit for man and society. Thomas Ducree will also introduce the plaster Schule newcomer award this evening and feature for the first time. “The prize will be awarded in the autumn of 2014 for the first time, is aimed at university graduates and, like the research award, on the topic of man and technology” refer.

At the awards ceremony our grant recipients and Fellows will have the opportunity to establish interesting contacts and maybe yes ambition is spurred on, sometime even to keep one of the two prizes in hands”, says Thomas Ducree smiling. Through the plaster School Foundation, the plaster Schule Foundation is a firmly established institution in Baden-Wurttemberg since its inception in 1965. Their wealth goes back to the couple Schule, had founded the first factory of plaster in the Stuttgart area in 1870 in Bad Cannstatt. The Foundation’s work is supported by the conviction that science and research, as well as the promotion of junior research and teaching are essential foundations for social progress and economic stability. Fairness, sustainability and responsible management of resources and growth are the values that the plaster Schule Foundation conducts its business and its funding decisions. For more information,