Following the cooperation framework agreement of 12 March 2024 in Tashkent and the letter of intent of 19 June 2024, the rector of TSPU, Prof. Dr. Abdugappor Karimjonovich Kirgizbaev, and Prof. (CN) Ming CHENG signed the founding agreement of the first German-Uzbek faculty in Halle on 24 July 2024.
The faculty is being established at TSPU as a public-private partnership funded by the Uzbek government and has the status of a state faculty; its degrees are state degrees of TSPU. Initially planned are German as a foreign and technical language as well as economics, industrial engineering, computer science, business informatics and media informatics – based on German curricula and quality standards.
Guests at the signing included Prof. Dr. Markus Krabbes, rector of Hochschule Merseburg, Prof. Dr. Dieter-Klaus Schulz, rector of Media University of Applied Sciences, and Katharina Brederlow, deputy mayor for education and social affairs of the City of Halle (Saale).