What does a study program in economics actually look like?

It has now been six months since Johannes spent his winter semester in Colombia at the University of EAFIT. However, the student is still amazed by the diversity of the country.

UFUNDI imports hand-painted paintings from Tanzania to Germany in order to offer the artists a stage on the European market. The aim is to support the local artists and donate part of the profits to local education projects.

Jan Fiebich completed his Master's degree in Business Education just a year ago and immediately landed his dream job as a personnel officer at Deutsche Bahn. He laid the foundations for this with an internship during his Master's degree. This made it much easier for him to start his career than many of his fellow students. Today, the 26-year-old applies the knowledge from his studies in his day-to-day work.

Making the world a better place is the vision that Michelle Müller lives for. At the Department of Information Systems, she conducts research into the online behaviour of people on digital marketplaces and its effects. She travels halfway around the world to exchange ideas with her research colleagues - and yet she always enjoys coming home.

Gathering new impressions, developing herself and helping other people - and all this in Uganda! Even before her studies, Leonie was already concerned with social inequalities and set herself the goal of changing this. Four years ago, she became aware of the charitable Paderborn Odissa-Charles organisation and has been flying to Uganda for several weeks a year to provide local support ever since.