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| University of Jena and Penn State: The Partnership
Penn State aims to develop a strategic, comprehensive, and sustainable partnership with the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. While the initial impetus for this partnership originated with the College of Health and Human Development, the partnership is intended to be University-wide, with potential partners including Penn State’s Colleges of Liberal Arts, Education, Medicine, and Eberly College of Science.
The University of Jena and Penn State share a commitment to significantly expand and enhance bilateral relationships. In light of this commitment and a long history of excellence shared by the two universities, a true partnership is likely to benefit both. As partners, the two aim to establish a solid foundation of faculty collaboration and institutional support that will include faculty, staff and student exchanges and joint proposals for external funding of research and other educational activities. Early efforts to establish a partnership were championed by Dr. Fred Vondracek, associate dean for undergraduate studies and outreach in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State (and honorary professor at the University of Jena), and Dr. Rainer Silbereisen, head of developmental psychology at the University of Jena (and adjunct professor of human development at Penn State). Starting in 1995, they arranged for a number of student and faculty exchanges between their respective departments, sponsored student excursions and international scientific conferences and collaborated on the publication of numerous scientific papers. A formal agreement between the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State and the Department of Developmental Psychology at Jena was signed in 1995. An active collaboration between these two departments continues today. To
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