Feb 28, 2024
Signing of the First Company Scholarship at the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
Met on 28.02.24 (from right): Dean Prof. Regine Gerike, Ulrich Grüner from IKOS, scholarship holder Juan Diego Vega Idárraga and Dr. Michael Krieg, Managing Director of the Faculty.
IKOS Consulting Deutschland GmbH, a global company specialising in railway and energy technology, is the first company to fund a two-year company scholarship for a Master's student at the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. The recipient will receive 750 euros per month for 24 months.
The official meeting between the company and the scholarship holder took place at the faculty on 28 February 2024. In the presence of Dean Prof. Regine Gerike, the scholarship holder, Juan Diego Vega Idárraga, and Ulrich Grüner, Director Business Development at IKOS, met for the first time and got talking.
You can read about how the young Colombian discovered his later love for rail and railway through his early love for Germany, what he wants to do after his studies and why his father's fears are unlikely to be confirmed in the online magazine "Verkehrslage". To the article
Ulrich Grüner, Director Business Development at IKOS, also gave an in-depth interview to "Verkehrslage". Among other things, he explains why the company is funding a scholarship at TU Dresden, what else is on offer to the scholarship holder, what challenges IKOS is currently facing, what Spain has ahead of Germany when it comes to engineering studies and why it is absolutely worth starting a transport and traffic study programme today. Read for yourself. To the interview
Second company scholarship acquired
In addition to IKOS Consulting Deutschland GmbH, the next company to financially support such a scholarship at the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transportation Sciences in order to actively shape its own engineering and specialist requirements is Rail Power Systems GmbH, based in Munich. The scholarship, which is financed by RPS and announced by the faculty, will be awarded for 24 months to a first-semester student from one of the two Master's degree programs "Railway Systems Engineering" or "Electrical Transport Systems" for the winter semester 2024/25. The scholarship holder will receive 750 euros per month. More Information