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international
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Businesses go back to the blackboard
The Aachen Campus of RWTH Aachen University is one of the biggest technology campuses in Europe and the leading-edge project underway in the knowledge economy in and around Aachen.
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Spurring us all on for the Europe of tomorrow
What do Bill Clinton, Pope John Paul II, Angela Merkel, the euro and the people of Luxembourg have in common? They’re all past winners of the International Charlemagne Prize of ...
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The devil’s thumb in Aachen cathedral
The devil, as we know, is in the detail. And in Aachen cathedral (Aachener Dom). Millions of hands have touched him down the centuries: the devil’s thumb in one of ...
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Where ideas become products
Forward-looking research can be world-changing. Nowhere is this more true than in Aachen, whose university and college laboratories and test facilities produced the first all-metal aircraft and the first diesel ...
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Everyone’s odds-on favourite!
When business associates, friends and acquaintances part company with the words, “See you in Soers!”, there’s no mistaking that CHIO – the great World Equestrian Festival – is nearly here.
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Cities galore right next door
6 a.m. and the sun’s up! Fancy a stroll by the sea? Two or three hours later you can be running across the sand with the wind in your face. ...
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Networking made easy
Children’s eyes double in size, high society is thrilled and former US President Bill Clinton can’t go to sleep without them: chocolates, gingerbread “Printen”, and chocolate-covered fruity sponge “Domino” bites ...
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I was at home here right away
Aachen is an ideal size of city – one where you really want to feel at home.
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High-tech in a listed heritage building
In the Persian Gulf, the orthopaedic surgeons from University Hospital Aachen (UKA) enjoy superstar status, with people coming in from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman ...
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Black cat
In the dark, all cats look grey. The ones here used to be jet-black. Hundreds of them used to cross the sparsely-guarded farmland border from Belgium on their way to ...
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Conference culminates in carnival
Just what happens when a professor gets infected by the bacillus carnivalis virus? Easy. Carnival is held not in January or February, but in the height of summer.
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By children for children
For millions in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Aachen is more than just a name. For these people, it’s a place of assistance, refuge and dialogue – all thanks to ...
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Looking outside our own back yard
To infinity and beyond: not just the dream of every sci-fi junkie, but of a lot of the world’s scientists too.
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