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Munich University of Applied Sciences: M.Eng Paper Technology
University of Bayreuth: Digitalization & Sustainability in Materials Science & Engineering
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Chapters:
Intro: 0:00-6:11
Munich University of Applied Sciences: M.Eng Paper Technology 6:31-21:32
University of Bayreuth: Digitalization & Sustainability in Materials Science & Engineering 22:52-38:10
Q&A: 35:15-51:10
and their material science in Germany. Here are our guests. I will be introducing them separately um when their presentation part will start. Before that, I want to remind you about Majama University, which is Germany’s largest study program database. This is the demo version of it that you see right now. In short, I want to say if you are planning to study in Germany, uh be it in English, partially English or fully um in German, then you are welcome to use a study finder which has listed all the study programs available. Um and sometimes there can be for example a study program in English and Chinese. So you can filter all of those programs uh in the study finder, save them and check out all the program relevant details um in one place. So I will show you this as well. You can also check out our articles. Um and also today in case you have questions about scholarship or visa most probably I will be referring you to our articles that are really comprehensive also very detailed. uh some of them could be also broad because about like studying masters in Germany it will provide an overview but visa questions it are country specific uh and lots of things are discussed there and articles are translated into different languages so may use advantage of this as well. Uh we also have webinars um you know you are attending one of them but we also have uh general webinars when we cover broader topics for example unas scholarship visa or studying in Germany in general. This week we have one about visa. So in case you want to know more how to apply when to apply what documents you need feel free to join my colleague Oliver and he will share with you all the details. The subject webinars are subject specific. So usually we expect people who are interested in those specific programs especially or subject to be attending. Um but in case you want to check out different fields because you don’t haven’t decided yet what do you want to study then feel free to also register for other upcoming subject webinars but material science is I think uh only in July once again I’m not sure. So it’s good that you are here today. Now uh about our team that is our team. We are still lacking to uh newcomers on pictures here. We are based in Germany uh Harborg and we are counseling a different languages and we’re always very happy to share our insights on how studying and living in Germany uh from international and also German perspective. Now as I said um why you need a study finder? So first maybe you want to know what kind of programs there are in material science. Therefore you would go click on study finder and then search for a subject. When you search for material science you see 128 degrees which are English only programs and here is a breakdown. Of course you are not checking 116 programs one by one. Therefore, you need filters. Um, and those filters are very specific. For example, you already have IELTS or TOEFL and are and are you are searching for specific programs that are accepting this course or you want to check programs that do not require work experience or without location. I don’t know application um is it via uni assist or without is there is NC or there is no NC all of those filters which can be combined can be applied and then you can sort programs according to let’s say application deadline and always maybe you have a short list of 10 15 programs then you can favor them so that you don’t miss out the documents that you need also application deadline and some facts about the program so if you click on one of profiles you have a comprehensive list of career prospects, curriculum, sometimes testimonials etc etc. So it’s really informative and everything in one place. Of course you have a link to course page which is like official course page and then you can again double check everything if you want on the program page itself. Um in case you are not sure or hesitant uh to do you want to study material science or in Germany or not for you we have subject pages. Those subject pages have description of the subject and then there is a very interactive part which shows you some different graphs about tuition fees, general application, admission requirements, language requirements and those um then you can already see do you have enough qualification to apply to those programs or not. But again, please check each program individually because they have different application uh documents. Deadlines could vary as well. Um and also it’s very important to uh decide on a program according to its content rather than just names or ranking. Now about university landscape in Germany. In Germany there are universities and universities of applied sciences. And usually like what we mentioned during the webinars is that um universities have programs that are more research and theory oriented and applied sciences usually offer programs that are more application and practice oriented. There were some differentiations about PhD possibilities but there are no longer in play. Um and also advice is that uh feel free to start searching for programs by subject. Don’t try to guess program names because program names for example in material science could vary and you will see today as well. Therefore, it’s easier so that you don’t miss out on interesting programs to start searching by um subject and then narrow down your search according to some different uh aspects. All right, now let’s go to N because we have Dr. Helga Co who will be talking about master engineering paper technology a very interesting and specific program uh important is that application deadline 15th of July and more details will be shared by professor and um thank you very much for your introduction introduction and um I’m very happy that I can present you our master’s program in paper technology at um Munich University of applied science Um, Munich University is the second largest university of applied science in Germany and we have over 100 different study programs. Um, 16 different uh research institutes and uh we are going to look into our different locations. Um we are in the center of Munich with our three locations and actually the program what we are talking about here is um sorry about that is um in compos where we are located here together with several other study programs. Um I’m going to show you this. Basically this picture here shows you this is our main entrance and we are here in the faculty which is called technical systems processes and communications and within this uh faculty we have different bachelor programs as well as master programs and our presentation today will focus on paper technology. Um the masters is a masters of engineering and we have a consecutive program and we have a continuing education program. What you can see here is a picture of our graduates last summer and you can see already that we have a very international group. Usually we have between 10 and 12 different nationalities in our mast’s program and they come really from all over the world and it’s a very uh a good uh opportunity to really learn about each other have different social skills but of course focus in depth on material science. In this case we are talking about how to produce paper and board qualities. What kind of raw material you need? Um how do you prepare it? What are different resources what you need? Um water energy etc. How do you do automation? How do you produce it in a consistent way and how do you test it? Um so today I brought you some um general information about our program and then we go in depth about the different detailed modules in the consecutive program as well into the continuing education program and at the end I’m going to have some slides about living in Germany or living in Munich in particular and how to apply for our master’s degree. Well, um if you’re unsure if you want to study in Germany, um and especially if you’re unsure what you want to do, uh we are giving you some suggestions here in material science and engineering. Um and our students who are coming here, they don’t have to really know about anything about paper and cardboard manufacturing. If we have a continuing education program, that means anyone who has any kind of engineering degree or chemistry degree, they can start in our program and they get a depth insight in the most important topics all around the industrial sector. Our masters is completely taught in English and the requirement is a B2 level of English. So our degree is a masters of engineering. It has been reacredited again in the in summer 2023. So about two years ago. You have the choice of studying in a full-time version or as a part-time version. And you can see here that we have basically two different um options. consecutive education three semester and a continuing education four semester. So if you have already a bachelor of engineering in the field of paper technology, you can enter the consecutive education program. If you have a uh any kind of engineering background as a bachelor degree, you can join us in the continuing education program. Now I’m focusing on the first version which is the consecutive program which means within three semesters or 90 ECTS you can um graduate as a full-time student. If you are part-time student of course you can you have double the time and um this is only possible if you have already some experience in the field of paper technology. I’m uh going directly into the continuing education program which is the by far there are more students what we usually have and um it’s a program which has a duration of four semester and if you’re full-time student that means 30 ECTS per semester and 120 ects totally. Um it is for any kind of um technical engineering or natural science bachelor students who do not have any experience in paper making. As it’s a continuing education program, it requires that you have at least one year of working experience after your graduation as a bachelor. It uh requires tuition fee. This is €4,000 per semester as a full-time student. You can see here this is um the schedule of our educa of our master’s program um four semesters and you see here in the very first semester is basically the basics about paper technology. So you will see how to prepare the fibers um how to test them in paper physics. you will talk about minerals um in the second semester. Then you focus on the process on how to make paper and how to um convert it and improve it and get them special um properties. For example, here in coating and barriers so you can trim it to the actual application where it’s used. Um one uh focus is here automation. Automation fundamentals and digitalization are basically um engineering subjects in order to have a smooth run on a paper machine. And in order to prepare you for scientific analysis and research, you have here an extra class in statistics, design of experiments, but also in scientific writing and chemical engineering. The practical research training is a module which is really focusing on the continuing education program students. Here you really learn how to do in-depth research um topics and um get a good insight into different um parts. With the electives, you have the choice of different kinds of electives. Um you can focus on tissue for example, but you can also on how to apply patterns um or for example in the field of clothing on a paper machine. What you see here on the right, this is a picture of one of our master students uh group. Um and the unique thing is that we have a very good network with our industry. So our students usually go several times in a semester for excursions and they get to know the paper industry. They get to know different uh engineers working there and get in contact with them and see what kind of jobs are available and what they do when they are done with their master’s degree. And in addition, we also have a lot of experts coming in every semester. Usually about um 10 different subjects will be presented and this is organized by our student group. So as an academic advisor I have two colleagues um professor Yorg Bell as well as professor Emanuel Matarana and we are basically the academic advisors but in addition we have several experts coming from the industry who bring their in-depth applied knowledge to your students and give you a good insight in how to use it later on in your job. I have here a few pictures as lab impressions. Now you can see we have um a focus on uh chemistry parts. So wet end chemistry. So we can see how fibers are produced and how you can qualify them and analyze them and categorize them. You will see paper testing in our climate room. You can see here different possibilities that we have um scanning electron microscope. We can measure my fiber morphology as well as different kind of microscopic pictures. But we also have a good stock preparation area. So you can see here on the right we have really um pilot plant sky scale um equipment. Here you can see a refining device where you can run big batches and uh prepare them in order to have a coated material or to produce your own paper on our little pilot plant paper machine. Yeah, this one is used every winter semester from our master students. They have then the um project to produce our Christmas cards. For that they get two different samples and then they have to go into the lab and analyze them what kind of materials they need, what kind of fibers, what kind of dyes, what kind of wet end chemicals and then um they do pre-trials in the lab and after that they come with a recipe and go to the little paper machine and produce the Christmas cards which we send out to our um industry network study and life in Munich. Um we know that Munich is um not that easy to find an apartment or a a room to live in. Therefore, we have a um contract with the student in Munich. They run student housing and our students um will get a room in the student housing for the first year. So semester 1 and two they can um have a room here in the student housing and when they are here already they get to know all the other students and usually then it’s easier to find a room somewhere else. Admission requirements. So you need a bachelor degree either in engineering or in science and a GPA of good. That means 2.5 or better. If you have a GPA between 2.6 and 3.0 zero. We have usually a um interview, an aptitude test and we will talk about the different subjects and get to know you and see if you are a good candidate for our program. In addition, you need um of course English proficiency level of a B2 which is basically possible to do a TEFL test or an IELTS test or if your pro bachelor program is already taught in English then uh this is of course also approved for English proficiency and since it’s a continuing education program at least one year of professional experiment experience after your bachelor degree in so then you can apply for our master program in paper technology. Um, if you want to see what kind of costs are coming up, um, well, of course, you have on the one side the tuition, which is in per semester, €4,000 for a monthly rent. Um, usually you need about 300 to€500 in Munich. Um sometimes we have um um well we do have uh student housing for paper technology students for a limited number of rooms for the first and the second semester. Um our main contact for that is Miss Anina Ka. Um here’s her email coreivp.org org which is basically our institute here and she is helping you with all the different application procedures and if you have any questions you can always contact her. So some facts at the end. This is a master degree, a master of engineering. Um you have two choices. You can study in a consecutive program. So meaning do you have already a paper um degree as a bachelor degree for three semesters as a full-time student or if you have a different kind of engineering degree, you can study here in a continuing education program for semester as a full-time student. Um at the moment you can apply for our upcoming winter semester which will start on 1st October 1st 2025. Um and uh this is for the consecutive as well as the continuing education students. The application is usually run by our website which is hm.edu. There should be vong which means application. Um but you can always send us first all your documentation and we can pre-check them and give you um the an idea already if there is something missing or if you are um suitable to um register here or to apply here for a student in this in the program and of course it’s an accredited uh program by Eva. Okay. Um we have two um links here. Um one is on LinkedIn. So you if you want to follow us on LinkedIn usually we talk about all the different um experiences. If you go out for any kind of conference or for an exhibition and you can see what’s happening in our uh daily life. And we also have um a few pictures published on Instagram where you can see most of them in kind of um photos from our labs or from our students what they are doing. So okay so I’m already by the end um if you have any other questions please let me know if I can help you and uh I’m looking forward to your questions. Thank you. Thank you very much professor for all the details you provided. Um it was indeed really interesting and dear attendees now um I would like to ask for your attention in chat because professor mentioned also GPA which is in German system and in case you want to calculate what it will it is in for your current score right now you can use um a link from tomb um which is a GPA calculator um and uh you can already see where your GPA stands in German system. Uh the application portal link and Nina’s email are both in chat. Feel free to also save them. If you don’t do it, I I will still follow you with the follow-up email and you can still have it um in one place later. Now, um everybody, we have a second presentation from University of Digitalization, Sustainability in Material Science and Engineering. I’m happy to have Annalena Ponat here presenting the program. For this program, you have two application deadlines which is also um important. So I go behind it. Uh let’s start with the MSE digitalization and sustainability in material science and engineering in shorts which is taught in the university of bro Germany. them. By is like a small tour in the north of Bavaria which has a population of uh around 75,000 people where four um 11,800 people are students and over 2,000s are international students. Um the campus is situated directly um in the circle shown which is close to the city center. That’s about 8 minutes by bike, which is like a general rule for BOD. 8 to 10 minutes per bike you can get mostly everywhere. For the University of B itself, it’s a campus university. So everything is on campus. The foundation year is 1975. So it’s a really young university. We have around 280 professors um with 43 international professors as already mentioned around 12,000 students. uh from the students around 1,300 people do a PhD study here right now and 315 of them are international and other than that we have around 2,600 uh people more working in the university as for technicians or like some uh stuff for the cafeteria or something like this. Uh the tuition for the University of Byro is around €160 per semester for all um degree programs. Um coming to the rankings, um the world university ranking of 2025 rated the University of BOD in the top 11% of the over 2,100 universities that were ranked. So quite high time. Then as already mentioned the University of Byro is a relatively young university and with it within those young universities there is a second ranking uh where the University of Byro uh had the 38th place out of 670 universities. uh within the humbold ranking that only ranks German universities, we had the 21st place with the first place in life sciences and as also the opinion of students is really important to the study programs in University of Broid. Uh we also included the study check and the digital campus index here. The study checks um shows that over 80,000 students rated the University of Birros with really good grades. We ranked number one number eight in Germany in stu student uh sufficiency. Um for the digital campus index this shows an an overview of the student satisfaction espec es especially with digitalization at the university. For example regarding the quality quality of digitalization in lectures in equipment and administration and in other important areas. We are the first ranked um university in Germany. So digitalization is not only important to us in this degree program but in general. Uh just a quick overview of the University of Broid. As already mentioned we have a campus university. So everything is at one place. We have seven faculties. The DSME program will be situated in the sixth faculty and the engineering science faculty which is on the side of uh the campus here. Other than that we have the faculty one comprising mathematics, physics and computer science. Faculty two biology, chemistry and geocciences where you can also in both of these faculties you can take modules within the degree program if you are interested in doing so. Uh we have faculty three um which um comprises law and economic studies. Faculty four with language and literature sciences. uh faculty five with cultural sciences and faculty seven with life sciences including nutrition, food and health. Um as we have our campus university, we have a cafeteria on the campus providing all students and um other staff with food every day which is quite convenient. Um the profile fees of the university can be split in um three bigger parts. The most important part for DSME will be natural engineering sciences. Um here we focus on high pressure and high temperature research on new materials which is also the focus area of the master thesms as well as in energy research and energy technology nonlinear dynamics poly colloid chemistry so meaning plastic products ecology and environmental research which is which is also really important for the new master program as well as molecular molecular biosciences. The other two um yeah research field are not so important for DSME so I will skip them. So coming to the program itself as already mentioned we are part of the engineering science faculty with studying DSME you will get the master of science in the end start of study can be summer or winter term whereby the application deadline for the winter term is the 15th of June and for the summer to the 15th of January. The language of instruction is English and our target audience for applications are students coming from an engineering or natural science background. You should have knowledge in mathematical, scientific and engineering skills. I will provide further further details on that shortly. Uh the mode of study is only full-time students and the duration of study is four semesters in total. So why should you want to study DSME? DSMECE um combines traditional material science with the emerging fields of sustainability and digitalization. By getting all that um informations from all those areas, you will be have uh will be able to have a holistic understanding of these areas. Um um making sure that you can um rethink sustainability demands on material science and apply digitalization methods to have a faster and accelerated development of new processes and materials which is an important in times right now where we need to find solutions to for example pressing issues at climate as climate change. What we want you to know after you study DSMSE are the following points. We want you to have an inter interdicciplinary understanding in the face of sustainability, digitalization and material science. This means that we want you to uh to uh have uh knowledge of materials and technology development for sustainable applications that you can uh can uh have a knowledge of application of digital methods on the material development. uh knowledge of concepts for sub substituting existing non-sustainable materials into more environmentally friendly solutions that you can evaluate existing um circular economy concepts and create new ones. uh that you can um perform actions according to the sustainability principles consider considering the economic and material related framework conditions and that you can be an ambassador for a fact and databased sustainability discussions in society. Coming to the module structure, the DSMSSE um study is um yeah clustered into three bigger fields. Wherefore the basics per field um aimed for you to get like a similar understanding that every student gets a similar understanding of important uh topics like material science, digitalization and sustainability. Looking into that um broader we have four uh parts of that basic structure. The first one is a lecture series called connected knowledge in material science. This lecture series aims that every student has the same knowledge base in the field of material science. So basically stuff you should know from your bachelor’s degree. And as we cannot make sure that every bachelor um um um tells you the same, we try to align your knowledge with this module which is of course compulsory. Then within the material science um module um cluster you can choose uh three to five modules according to your interests. This can be in the topics of metallic materials, ceramics, functional materials for example batteries, biioaterials, biopolymers and of course bio polymers itself. Um you can completely freely choose what you want to listen to here. it. There is like over eight um lectures you can choose from. You just need to fulfill the three uh required modules. The informatics module and the sustainability modules are compulsory modules. So you would need to take every um lectures that are in these modules which are two in every case. For the informatics module, this will be Python and machine learning basics as well as basics of numerical methods and applied statistics. Uh in the sustainability module you will get fundamentals of carbon and life cycle assessment and the fundamentals of environmental and resour resource technology. After completing the basics per field, you will be able to deepen your knowledge in the combined fields that are clustered into three different um subgroups. sustainable application and processes from materials, circular economy and sustainable raw materials as well as digitalization and material science. From these um three clusters, you have to pick five modules according to your interests uh with at least one module from each field. Um you can also or you have to do two research modules within within the um yeah advanced module uh which will get you um six easy um CPS um from um either of the faculties engineering science, mathematics or physics or chemistry and biology. You can choose uh the topic uh from a department where you want to go to. However, the topic must be related to sustainability or digitalization in material science. Within the module you module, you will be able to follow our PhD students on their work and really get a a deeper knowledge on what um you can um um learn here and also um this can be uh like first um insight into a possible masters topic. Uh the last field is the individual field uh where here also the research modules are listed. Other than that you have the individual knowledge de development social economic and legal aspects of sustainability and the master’s thesis. Within the individual knowledge development you can choose one module with at least five credit points related to TSMSSE topic. So meaning sustainability and or digitalization and or material science from any other master program in the university of bio biryan. So really letting you um the choosing what you want to look deeper into. Other than that we want you to have some knowledge on the social economic and legal aspects of sustainability. Uh for that um you will get an introduction to entrepreneurship and management. uh where you can choose uh yeah one module from currently five modules that are offered and the last topic will be the master thesis which you can also um do in faculty six with a core supervision of faculty one faculty two or yeah faculty six so again engineering sciences biology chemistry physics mathematics informatics in this kind of field uh the admission requirements for DSMC are as follows. Uh we want you to have a bachelor degree equivalent to an engineering or material science degree program of the University of Bir. This means that you would need a minimum of 12 credit points in mathematic related fees for example numerical mathematics or statistics. 15 credit point in credit points in natural sciences for for example physics, chemistry or biology and 20 credit points in material science or engineering fundamentals for example materials engineering, mechanics, thermodynamics, process engineering and stuff like that. For language requirements, you would need at least English B2 level equivalent to an ILTS of 6.5 or higher and a German uh language um requirement of A1 which can be obtained during the first year of the program. So this has not be finished uh during the time of your admission. ad uh important admission documents are a VPD from UNICES that was issued for the University of Bir, a CV, the language certificate in English, your passport, a transcript of records of your bachelor’s studies as well as a motivational letter no longer than two pages that also includes cross specific competences of you information on um for example on the DS This ems structure on ad admission or general informations can be found at our homepage with the link provided here. Uh comprehensive guide all required documents for application can be found under the second link and further information for international students for the University of B as a whole can be found in the last link. You can also find some interesting information and followups on the links provided for example on LinkedIn, on Facebook and on Instagram. Uh and also we have a YouTube channel. So check out the links if you want to have um further informations. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you very much Analena for all the details you provided and uh for mentioning uh like further contact details and also the links which are also in chat dear attendees if you want to check them. Now before um we start with a broader Q&A uh since Analina you are still here I want to um double check uh regarding the tuition. So there was a question what is a total fees for DSME and I wrote that there are no tuitions only semester contribution which is around €150. Could you please confirm or correct me? Yes, it’s correct. It’s the same tuition for all degree programs in University of Bir. Okay. Wonderful. Thank you. Great. Now you can uh stop the screen share and we start the bit larger round of Q&A. Thank you, Professor Cord, for taking questions already in written. I will still voice some of them, but uh yeah, it’s also nice to have your like personal answer from a professor uh in in Q&A. All right, so let’s start with a question that came during Analina which you are trying to answer in Britain, but I will interrupt you here because let’s voice it. at the University of Bayoids. Are courses mostly theoretical lecture or are they project based and problem solving oriented? Um most of the um lectures contain um internships or practical courses where you will work at topics from PhD students in University of Birro. So directly working on solving current issues. So we will have definitely project based and problem solving oriented lectures. Mhm. Thank you. Another question is about PhD position. So let’s start with professor and then we can continue with Analena. Do you have open PhD positions? Is it possible to continue further taking in academia after finalizing your programs? You mentioned in your in your introductory presentation that only a few um the voice is very low. Just a second. I think the mic is up. Okay. Thank you very much for the um Okay. You mentioned in your introductory presentation that only a few universities of applied science have the possibility to do a PhD. This is correct. We are lucky because we have really the PhD program in material science together with the um hul at ringsburg. It’s a combination between those two locations. So our uh master students are able or can do a PhD right um in continuing process. At the moment we have five PhD students in our program. Um can you uh follow up Analina regarding pays university and PhD possibilities there? Um yes of course we have open PhD positions as already mentioned we have over 1,400 doctoral students right now. Um you can do your doctoral studies right after the master degree and we have over like 15 to 20 departments to choose from when you um yeah finish the DSME program. Thank you very much dear I maybe I can also follow up here. So in Germany with PhDs it’s um you need to like check if the professor has open like PhD uh position or maybe there are PhD at research center. So it’s always nice to be part of the university get to know people and then you can already follow up with a PhD and PhD is considered as a job. So you are employed then by the university and you will also um um yeah like so the procedure is a bit different. Therefore first you need to be part of the university. All right. Uh hello Miss Pongards. Is there any coding or data analysis involved in the program? Will I be expected to already have experience in that? Um yes the program is circular about digitalization of course. uh there will be coding and data analysis uh involved but we have the basic module informatics where you will get the basics in machine learning the basics in python scripting and the basics in the meth meth mathematics behind that so you will not be expected to be a full expert in that field if you bring some prior knowledge that’s of course beneficial now let’s tackle English language which was mentioned I from by professor I think um if the previous studies were fully in English but maybe it’s more um like stren strong to hear it from professor herself I had my studies in English is lang is English language requirement waved yes it is so um is it the same with you and um no not exactly we can only accept um like proficiency letters from some countries um you can find forum information on our website here for the countries where we don’t accept it um it’s the B2 um yeah IC certificate. Mhm. Wonderful. Thank you. If one wants to collect experience through student jobs during the studies and because of that wants to prolong studies by one to one or two semesters is it allowed in Germany? Professor K? Yes it is. So you can do uh you can work in between, you can do voluntary internships if you want to. Um you can also switch between full-time and part-time student. So if you need um to work to get uh enough uh financial support um it is always possible to have a student job here or you can work somewhere in in a different uh organization and um combine study and work or getting experience at the same time. And then do you have any restrictions on how maximum amount of semester the studies can be? one or two semester more is no problem of course you can work that’s thank you uh dear I would also follow up here as an international student you are allowed to work 20 hours uh per week during the semester and you can do 40 hours a week or you can do 40 hours uh per week during the semester break so uh once you register as a student in Germany you will receive a special um paper to that blood which will explicitly mention where you are studying and what kind of um rights you have to work. So don’t exceed this limit because as an international and as actually as an enrolled student your primary concentration should be on studies but you can of course do um additional uh internships or student jobs which are usually part-time up to 20 hours a week. Um so the university names are all in chat. Dear a king um if you uh scroll uh so scroll my chat you can see we are uh having Munich University of Applied Science and University of Bioarts. I will again post it in chat. Uh but uh yeah it is already there. Uh, do you offer online part-time study options? Uh, Professor K. Um, or maybe if somebody is late for a semester start due to visa, can he or she start online? Yes, but that’s what we usually do. We do hybrid classes because we know that the visa application um is difficult sometimes and sometimes you have to wait for many weeks in order to get your visa. And uh usually we um offer all our lectures in a hybrid form. So you can attend online. The only time you have to be in Munich is when you do the lab experiments. Um and if we know that people are coming late, we are trying to adjust our schedule in such a way that you can participate for example at the end of one semester and um do then all your lab experiments. Mhm. Thank you. Um for our lectures you would need to be on campus. There are lecture which are online but this is the minority. We want you to get to know the other students, connect with them. Um and also throughout the semester there will be a lot of internships where you also have uh to be on campus. There was a question about VPD. So for Munich VPD is not mandatory. Uh for it’s mandatory. You need to have it before the application deadline. Therefore, make sure that you apply to UNIA assist to get this VPD um enough early because it takes um around 6 weeks to have this document, it will be a PDF which is valid for one year and since the university or the program has two intakes um in case something happened and uh you are yeah you can get it right now um it will be also valid for the next application deadline. So um this way you are not like losing your money so to say because you need to uh pay for VPD to UNI assist. Uh professor there was a question about the content that you to you already answered but maybe somebody also has the same um inquiry. Are there bridging modules or preparatory courses for students from non-engineering background like chemistry? Okay. If somebody has a chemistry background, um well, usually for automation and automation digitalization, um as well as for chemical engineering, usually we have like uh background reading. Um most of our students rather have problems with chemistry because they come from engineering part. Um and there we have kind of a an introductory into chemistry and what’s important for them to know. Um sometimes um we don’t have like really um an a bridging class in between but we can try to support them and uh see if we can match them with other students to get kind of um a better insight into the different topics. Thank you very much. And the last question for today is from Tes which is [Music] um broader not related to this u subject which is about PhD and to have an to schedule a meeting to discuss this. So here um we don’t do onetoone counseling. uh if you want to have like general information about PhD how to study it or uh how it usually works you need to join a webinar studying in Germany uh which will be also held in April but we don’t do onetoone counseling as for the costs involved just briefly to mention PhD is a position so you will be paid um you can also apply for um scholarship for example di has PhD uh grants available and you can um apply for that and additional costs. So um you in case you have a full scholarship then uh there are no additional costs unless like also depends on your spendings right what kind of um lifestyle you have etc. Um and then in case it’s already as part of position then uh it will be paid. So again there are no additional cost but um you need to check what kind of professor like in which subject you want to do a PhD and what kind of positions are open but there is not um no database you need to search it from the university or from faculty to faculty. Great. I see no more open