Irina Sulejmanovic won a prestigious scholarship through DAAD: the InternXChange Scholarship in Berlin, Germany. Sulejmanovic, who immigrated to the United States at age 9, is majoring in mass communications/advertising and German. Originally from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sulejmanovic left her home country at age 3 to live in Germany with her parents.
As one of 15 scholarship recipients, Sulejmanovic will spend the first six weeks at the International Center for Journalism of the Frei Universität Berlin to study politics, German society and culture, and the country’s current media structure and working conditions of journalists. She will spend her last five weeks in Germany in an intensive five-week internship with the public relations department at Freie Universität. In addition, students will take a one-week educational tour within Germany with young journalists from the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
The program is unique in that it is entirely conducted in German. Sulejmanovic will receive a stipend of €650.
Sulejmanovic, who received a $4,000 Gilman scholarship in fall 2010, moved to Berlin at the beginning of 2011 to go with 10 other UNL students to participate in the Deutsch in Deutschland language program.
DAAD supports academic exchange between the US, Canada and Germany and promotes Germany’s academic, scientific and cultural achievements. More information about the program is at http://www.daad.org/page/internxchange/.