About Us


Who we are and what we do.

About Us


Who we are and what we do.

Founded in 1993 on the initiative of Dr. Rainer Zäck, AiB emerged as a nonprofit organization with its roots in the design, planning, and implementation of specialized education abroad programs for U.S. institutions of higher education. AiB remains committed to the original impulse and ideal of intercultural exchange of Dr. Zäck, who passionately built, expanded and pushed AiB forward for over two decades.
Today, AiB is a values-based nonprofit educational organization that develops and implements higher education, continuing education, and scholarly and artistic projects both independently and in cooperation with national and international partners. In its educational work, AiB is committed to a humanistic and holistic educational ideal. It counts among its guiding values the endeavor to deal responsibly with nature and natural resources, the advocacy of an open society, and in particular the respect for freedom of thought, science and art. Today, AiB sees itself as an international academic forum that brings people and cultures together and enables them to engage in an open exchange with a view to social perspectives for the future.

What we do


Education Abroad

Interdisciplinary Program Development

Personal & Professional Development

Our Team


Prof. Dr. Marcelo da Veiga

Academic Director

mdv@aib-bonn.org

Sebastian Welter, M.A.

Managing Director

sw@aib-bonn.org

Florian Königs, M.A.

Senior academic manager

fk@aib-bonn.org

Mara Minkler, M.A.

Senior academic manager

mm@aib-bonn.org

Janette Yamanian, M.A.

Senior academic manager

jy@aib-bonn.org

Lisa Pohlers, M.A.

JUNIOR ACADEMIC MANAGER

lp@aib-bonn.org

Amir Yousif, B.A.

Junior academic manager

ay@aib-bonn.org

Friederike Stegemann, M.A.

JunioR academic manager

fs@aib-bonn.org

Charlotte Korff, M.A.

Junior academic manager

ck@aib-bonn.org

Hannah Erhard, M.A.

academic administrative assistant

he@aib-bonn.org

Christina Sönksen, M.A.

Housing Manager

cs@aib-bonn.org

Claudia Werth

Housing Coordinator

csw@aib-bonn.org

Lilli Andrade, B.A.

ACAdemic Administrative assistant

la@aib-bonn.org

Susanne Faillard, M.A.

German language Instructor

sf@aib-bonn.org

Jonathan Noack, B.A.

Co-Working, room rentals & Logistics

jn@aib-bonn.org

Vanessa Basilio de Luca

Further education coordinator

vbdl@aib-bonn.org

Eva Fürst, M.A.

program assistant coordinator

ef@aib-bonn.org

Prof. Jeremy Wasser, PhD

Academic Advisor

Finn Ragutzki

Program assistant

fr@aib-bonn.org

Valeria Herquiñigo 

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

vh@aib-bonn.org

Victoria Neumann

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

vn@aib-bonn.org

Anna Roth

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

ar@aib-bonn.org

Jessica Miebach

program Assistant

jmi@aib-bonn.org

Sepideh Tafazzoli

program Assistant

st@aib-bonn.org

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Leonie Overwien, M.A.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

lo@aib-bonn.org

Eva Fürst, M.A.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

ef@aib-bonn.org

Annika Walter, M.Sc.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

aw@aib-bonn.org

Lisa Chevalier, M.Sc.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

lc@aib-bonn.org

Our Ecosystem


eutopia


Coworking in our inclusive Community.

Arts, academics and social issues – those are the areas that we have dedicated ourselves to in Eutopia. We are convinced that creative and innovative ideas can emerge where people meet and inspire one another. We want to facilitate synergies between artistic, academic and entrepreneurial approaches and at the same time provide room for individual development.

ibugi


Actualized philosophy for social change.

The Institute for Education and Social Innovation (ibugi) is a scientificallys affiliated institute of the Alanus University of Arts and Society. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Marcelo da Veiga, it is concerned with the connections between philosophical thought and education as the basis for social and economic innovation.

 

Our Memberships

AiB is a member of these associations and organizations of higher education:

AASAP