1. 1907 The Belgian architect Henry van de Velde founded the School of Arts and Crafts. 1919 Walter Gropius founded the State Bauhaus in Weimar. The courses in the avant-garde were significantly influenced by Johannes Itten, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. 1996 After restructuring the existing faculties and establishing the Faculty of Art and Design (1993) and the Faculty of Media (1996), the college positioned itself to pursue the newest developments in design and technology. It was officially renamed the »Bauhaus- Universität Weimar«. 2010 The University celebrates »150 years of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar«

2. The Institute for European Urban Studies Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, www.uni-weimar.de In light of the profound transformation processes by which urban spaces are affected, the institute pursues the goal to contribute to the development of new and future-oriented planning and interdiscplinary concepts which correspond to the extensive problems and challenges of our time. Due to the fact that both research and teaching activities have continuously grown ever since in this field, the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) was founded by five professors in February 2004, based on the first postgradual programme “European Urban Studies” that started in 1999.

3. Susanne Riese Bust of Henry Van De Velde Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, www.uni-weimar.de -Office management Chair for Spatial Planning and Research and Urban Architecture -Assistant of the leader for international DAAD programs Bachelor and Master Urbanistik in cooperation with the responsible professors -Strategic Planning and Coordination for incoming and outgoing students of urban studies

4. -Office management Institute for European Urban Studies -Examination office for the Master study programmes European Urban Studies and Advanced Urbanism, the double degree programme with Tongji University Shanghai -Examination office for Erasmus students Staircase in the Main Building Annett Wagner Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, www.uni-weimar.de