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Welcome Booklet for Visiting Scientists 1 Version 19.02.2018 Table of Contents ABOUT THE ICDD ............................................................................................................................ 4 ICDD STAFF ................................................................................................................................... 6 ACADEMICS .................................................................................................................................... 7 TEACHING REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................................. 7 THE GERMAN GRADING SYSTEM .......................................................................................... 7 ENGLISH-TAUGHT MASTER PROGRAMS AT KASSEL UNIVERSITY .................................................. 9 LECTURE PLAN (VORLESUNGSVERZEICHNIS) ............................................................................ 9 ACADEMIC PROTOCOL AND CLASSROOM CULTURE ................................................................... 9 COPY CARD FOR GUESTS ...................................................................................................... 9 COMPUTER AND IT SERVICES ........................................................................................................... 10 UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL ................................................................................................................... 10 THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE .............................................................................................. 10 O THE WELCOME POINT ...................................................................................................... 10 O CAMPUS TOURS .............................................................................................................. 11 STUDENTENWERK KASSEL ................................................................................................. 11 EMERGENCY NUMBERS AND MEDICAL CARE ....................................................................................... 12 EMERGENCY NUMBERS .................................................................................................... 12 DOCTORS ....................................................................................................................... 12 SPECIALISTS AND ENGLISH-SPEAKING PRACTITIONERS .............................................................. 12 EVENTS, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND SIGHTSEEING ................................................................................ 13 EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE .............................................................. 13 SIGHTSEEING .................................................................................................................. 13 MUSEUMS AND PARKS ..................................................................................................... 13 THEATERS (OFFERING PERFORMANCES IN ENGLISH) ................................................................ 14 RELAXATION ................................................................................................................... 14 LANGUAGE COURSES ...................................................................................................................... 14 SPRACHENZENTRUM (UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL LANGUAGE CENTER) ............................................ 14 OTHER GERMAN COURSE OFFERS ....................................................................................... 15 LIBRARIES ..................................................................................................................................... 16 STADTBIBLIOTHEK (CITY LIBRARY) ....................................................................................... 16 UNI KASSEL LIBRARY ........................................................................................................ 16 2 o GENERAL INFORMATION ................................................................................................... 16 o WORKING HOURS AND LOCATIONS OF ALL BEREICHSBIBLIOTHEKEN: ........................................... 16 O GUIDED TOURS AND TRAINING WITH TUTORIALS (IN GERMAN) ................................................. 16 o TOURS IN ENGLISH ........................................................................................................... 16 O ORIENTATION IN THE LIBRARY ............................................................................................ 16 O CAMPUS CARD (MULTICARD = MULTIFUNKTIONSKARTE) ........................................................ 17 o PRINTING/COPY CARD FOR GUESTS .................................................................................... 17 o MULTI MEDIA CENTER (MULTIMEDIATHEK) ......................................................................... 17 o BORROWING BOOKS ........................................................................................................ 18 o ORDERING A BOOK .......................................................................................................... 19 o RETURNING BOOKS .......................................................................................................... 19 o DATABASES .................................................................................................................... 19 RESTAURANTS – A SELECTION .......................................................................................................... 21 SPORTS ........................................................................................................................................ 24 TRAVEL (TO AND AROUND KASSEL) .................................................................................................... 25 GETTING TO KASSEL BY PLANE ............................................................................................ 25 GERMAN RAILWAY (DEUTSCHE BAHN) ................................................................................ 25 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN KASSEL ................................................................................... 25 GERMANY – AN OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................. 26 PRACTICAL INFORMATION ................................................................................................. 26 OPENING HOURS............................................................................................................. 26 CREDIT CARDS ................................................................................................................ 26 BOTTLE RETURN .............................................................................................................. 27 WASTE SEPARATION ........................................................................................................ 27 3 Welcome! It is our pleasure to have you here and we are looking forward to working with you! To facilitate your introduction to your new appointment at the ICDD, we compiled some information that we hope will be of use to you. At the beginning of your stay, the ICDD staff will arrange a short orientation meeting to discuss important information (including this Welcome Booklet) and address any questions or concerns. Please feel free to give us feedback regarding this booklet or any other aspect of your stay. About the ICDD With the formulation of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the international community emphasized the importance of problem-oriented, interdisciplinary approaches to combating hunger and poverty. By virtue of its experience, competence and structure, the University of Kassel is an institution well-positioned to address such issues as employment opportunities and "decent" work in various areas and habitats (urban, rural) as well as the sustainable structuring of the relationships among them. These issues must be addressed with a special focus on knowledge generation to advise policy makers and decision makers, especially at the interface of ecology and society (natural and social sciences). As the agriculture sector is still the largest employer in many less-developed economies worldwide, there is a need to cooperate to improve agricultural commodity chains with the aim of creating decent work opportunities. Several years ago, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) initiated a competition with the theme of “university excellence in development cooperation”. Over forty institutions of higher education took part in the competition, including the University of Kassel, which submitted a concept for a decent work competence centre. The University of Kassel was one of five competition winners, and the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) was founded in July 2009 as a university central academic institution. Each winner was awarded five million Euro in funds from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Research is at the heart of ICDD activities so cooperation and collaboration between ICDD researchers is welcome and encouraged! Work is ongoing in the following research clusters: 1. Global Agricultural Production Systems (G.A.P.S) 2. Gender Equality and women´s rights in rural livelihoods in Ghana and Pakistan 3. Neo-Extractivism: Labor Relations and Productivity 4 4. Urbanization of agricultural land, fodder and dairy production and resource efficiency at the rural-urban interface in