Our school in the media

Selected Press Articles

SWR Baden-Württemberg News

To mark the 10th anniversary of our school, we welcomed a team from SWR Freiburg to the campus: Christof Gerlitz briefly tells the story of our school in this clip. The clip was broadcast on October 28 on SWR Aktuell Nachrichten (Baden-Württemberg). Take a look!

Stuttgarter Zeitung: “These students want to make the world a better place”

In August 2024, journalist Hilke Lorenz from the Stuttgarter Zeitung visited us and spoke to our new students about their first impressions of UWC Robert Bosch College: “Is that possible? 200 students from 91 countries learn a lot about sustainability and peaceful coexistence at the United World College Robert Bosch in Freiburg – and graduate with an international degree. A visit to a special school.”

Handelsblatt: “Tolerance as a compulsory subject”

“Learning from 90 countries: Pupils learn cosmopolitanism and diplomacy at a boarding school in Freiburg. Lessons are taught in English – but some students have to learn this first.” Author Kristin von Elm spoke to teachers, students and our principal. The result is a holistic portrait of UWC Robert Bosch College and the UWC movement.

Die Zeit: The peace school and the war

In the issue of June 15, 2022, DIE ZEIT reports in detail about UWC Robert Bosch College: Journalist Jonas Seufert visited us for two days in Freiburg, spoke with students, teachers and our former Rektor Laurence Nodder and got an idea of how we as a school integrate diversity and the teaching of values into our program.

Deutschlandfunk Radio: international understanding as a learning goal

Deutschlandfunk’s “Agenda” program takes up topics that are currently being discussed, that move and challenge us socially and that are therefore on the agenda for many people. On January 18, 2023, it was broadcast live from UWC Robert Bobert College. Bettina Köster spoke with students and teachers from our school for over 70 minutes. The topic: “International understanding as a learning goal. Studying with young people from 90 nationalities”.

Süddeutsche Zeitung: A School for do-gooders

It sounds a little too good to be true: “Young people from all over the world and all social classes live and learn together at this school for two years and deal with central issues of humanity: international understanding, peace and sustainable development.”

Die Zeit: Fighting poverty

“Jobs would be better than social programs”: Working late into the night and then going to school at five o’clock: Daniel Dejapin was a street kid in Manila. Here he tells us how he managed to escape poverty.
Local reporting

Selection from the Badische Zeitung

Renovation work at the United World College in Freiburg: Party and yoga between wash tubs

There is an old wash house on the grounds of the UWC that is now to be renovated. In future, it will be a community retreat for the students. They helped develop the spatial concept.

Thrown into the landscape: The residential village of Freiburg United World College turns ten years old

You don’t just drive past the exposed southern slope of the Kartaus. Up there is the residential village of the United World College, designed by architect Peter Kulka. An exciting ensemble.

Helen White takes over the management of the United World College in Freiburg

As deputy principal, Helen White helped to establish the United World College in Freiburg. Now she is taking over the management of the school.

Rector Laurence Nodder leaves Freiburg’s UWC – and retires

It is now over eleven years since the South African Laurence Nodder came to Freiburg to set up the United World College. Now he is retiring. A portrait of an extraordinary educator.

The Natural Forest School project turns Freiburg’s forest into a hands-on educational space

How a wooded area the size of 30 soccer pitches in the east of Freiburg is managed with help from our students: there is a special sustainability project at the United World College (UWC).

Freiburg schoolgirl researches how to generate solar power in the morning and evening

Even as a child, Hannah König wanted to be a physicist. And anyone listening to the 18-year-old has no doubt that she will become one. She has been awarded first prize in the regional Jugend forscht competition.

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