DUSHANBE, December 6, 2012 Asia-Plus — Tajik Ambassador to Germany Imomuddin Sattorov has delivered a statement about domestic and foreign policy of Tajikistan at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universitat Berlin), according to the Tajik MFA information department.
The purpose of the statement was to acquaint those present with political and socioeconomic development of Tajikistan, reforms and programs being implemented in the country, as well as investment and economic potential of Tajikistan.
After the lecture, Ambassador Sattorov reportedly answered numerous questions of students about hydroelectricity projects being implemented in Tajikistan, development of integration processes in the region and participation of Tajikistan in reconstruction of Afghanistan’s economy.
The Freie Universitat Berlin is a research university in Germany. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the humanities and social sciences, as well as on health and natural sciences. Founded in West Berlin during the early Cold War period and born out of the increasingly Communist-controlled Humboldt University, its name refers to West Berlin”s status as part of the free world, as opposed to the Soviet-occupied areas surrounding the city.
The Freie Universitat Berlin was one of nine German top-universities (also known as elite universities) to win in the German Universities Excellence Initiative, a national competition for universities organized by the German Federal Government with the intention of identifying and forming a German Ivy League. Winning a distinction for five doctoral programs, three interdisciplinary research clusters (some of them in cooperation with other universities) and its overall institutional strategy, the Freie Universitat Berlin was the single most successful university in the initiative. In university rankings, the Freie Universitat Berlin ranks among the best German universities; it has established a strong international showing in the Arts & Humanities followed by the Social Sciences, making it one of Europe”s top institutions in these fields.
The Freie Universitat is currently the lead university for eight collaborative research centers of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and also has five DFG research units.
