Photo from GCSS21, Photo montage Yaman ABDIN

The Global Classroom

This Global Classroom is part of a digital educational series of events carried out by the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry School of Pharmacy, Saarland University Germany, and supported by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). This project began in September 2020 and has been tested in the winter semester 2020 / 2021 with up to 100 students from six different countries (Georgia, Ghana, Moldova, Northern Macedonia, Syria, and Ukraine). With the help of the Microsoft Teams software, lectures, seminars, tutorials, and individual mentoring are offered globally for an international audience. The Global Classroom Summer Semester 2021 is running until August 2021 and encompass over 200 students from 24 institutes at 14 different countries (Armenia, Gaza strip, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Russia, Latvia, Montenegro, Moldova, North Macedonia, Morocco, Syria, Pakistan and Poland)

Photo from GCWS20, Photo montage YAMAN ABDIN

Organizers

The Global Classroom at the Saarland University is organized by Team Biorganic; Prof. Dr. Claus Jacob, Mr. Yaman Abdin, Dr. Jawad Nasim, Mr. Markus Lämmermann, Mr. Mouayad Zuraik and Ms. Anthea Julia von Glahn

Teaching Topics

The Global Classroom is directed towards undergraduate pharmacy students and related disciplines. We teach history and philosophy of chemistry, reaction kinetics and general and inorganic chemistry. The courses are taught in English.

Lecturers from the Saarland University

Prof. Dr. Claus Jacob

Dr. Jawad Nasim

Yaman Abdin B.Sc., M.Sc.

Special Friday Lecturers

Every fortnight on Friday we are inviting a speaker from our colleagues at partner universities and the industry to do a workshop on a new topic.

Dr. Maria del Rosario Martinez Ordaz, University of Rio de Janeiro

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Khair Alhareth, "Mignet' Lab", Université de Paris

Dr. Dmitrijs Kustovs, Riga Stradins University

Dr. Martin Gruhlke, Postdoc / Group Leader at RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Jürgen Landes, Postdoc, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Title: "Causation and Causal Inference". Upcoming! 30th of July 2021 at 14:00 (German time).

Partner Universities

Armenia: Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU), The National Polytechnic University of Armenia (NPUA), Yerevan State University (YSU)

Gaza Strip: Islamic of University of Gaza (IUG)

Georgia: San Diego State University Georgia (SDSU), Tbilisi State University (TSU)

Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Greece: University of Thessaly (UTH)

Russia: Southern Federal University (SFedU)

Latvia: Riga Stradins University

Montenegro: University of Montenegro (UCG)

Moldova: State University of Moldova (USM)

North Macedonia: Goce Delchev University (UGD)

Morocco: Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (USMBA), Ibn Tofaïl University (UIT)

Syria: Damascus University (DU), Arab International University (AIU), Aleppo university (AU), Al Andalus University (AU), Al Rasheed University (RU), International University for Science and Technology (IUST)

Pakistan: Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (PAF-IAST)

Poland: Jagiellonian University (UJ)

Contact us!

If you feel interested in joining the Global Classroom as a student or as a partner, please do not hesitate to contact us