Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Patrick Moore,

For the third time we participated in the Business Week of our partner university Gdansk School of Banking
[http://www.wsb.gda.pl/eng,gda-eng,business-week].

For the third time – this year with 21 participants – our university was the greatest fraction besides the home university.

For the third time we participated in the competition and some our students were among the top prize winners.

For the third time we had great fun and success. The contribution “Behind every smile ...”
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhUGfsY9XUE&sns=em] even won a special price!

Xianda: Teaching basics of finance and selected advanced financial tools at the Xianda College of Economics and Humanities in Oct and Nov 2011 was great fun. I enjoyed the motivated and open-minded students, the discussions with the staff and having the chance to learn more about Shanghai than you can being there only for a week or 10 days on excursion. I owe special thanks to Rose Guan and Hartmut Oertel, the initiators of our co-operation, who gave me the chance to also get an idea about the life in the German community of Shanghai and supported me in the discussions with Xianda.

With Professor Chen Chuanxing and his staff member Ms. Gao we developed the idea of a common teaching project for a group of students from Xianda and FH-Stralsund in Shanghai this spring. 21 students from all faculties (!)participated in the trip 5th May – 16th May – several students added a few days of sightseeing and stayed till 19th May.

The event itself was super. The students worked hand in hand with their buddies, made friends (some of them for lifetime). Details on the trip are available on http://www.shanghai2012.fh-stralsund.de/Shanghai/index.php?x=start.

At the present we are planning a return visit of Xianda students to Stralsund – for October, so that they can also participate in the Baltic Sea Forum.

My last Finance Excursion to New York is planned for December – but the preparations are under way – more or less since the beginning of the summer semester and then the first weeks of the winter term. For over 10 years every two years we have visited this centre of international finance. Dozens of students had the chance to gather international finance experience, to learn from reality in this exciting centre of finance, to build up connections for internships and bachelor theses. This field trip is integrated into my course International Capital Markets – but also connected with quite a lot of material about International Financial Engineering (structured finance, project finance ...). The theoretical high level of this course and excursion requires advanced students, so students participating are at least in their third semester in the winter term, where we work on basics of finance (corporate finance). As parallel we shall work on the financial topics we shall deal with in New York, we’ll be nicely prepared for the trip.

The students who are now in their second semester and I have started working on my last International Baltic Sea Forum on 10th / 11th / 12th Oct 2012. In the last two previous news I had already announced:

“It will be my turn then in 2012 – and: This will be my last full time term at FH Stralsund, meaning it will be a kind of "fare well event". So please keep this in mind!! We’ll have guest speakers from my excursions of all over the world, students from BMS that are active in banking and from our partner universities. Even if you are not a finance fan: note the date!”

In co-operation with the “Studium Generale” on Wednesday evening we shall have an opening speech and a get together (this will be – as it is organised in co operation with the “Studium Generale” – held in German). For non-German speaking we shall also have a little get together. The actual forum will take place on Thursday – of course in English.

Still not having overcome the crises that have hit the world economies since years, these problems will be in the focus of the forum under the headline