Partner University 2010

The CLAAS Foundation has been nurturing young technical talent all over then world for more than ten years. Students in Slovakia now stand to benefit from a recently established university partnership. Uwe Lütkeschümer, Managing Director of the Foundation, presented the Certificate of Partnership to Prof. Dr. Bielik, Dean of the University of Nitra (situated near the Slovak capital of Bratislava).

Uwe Lütkeschümer (left) and Prof. Dr. Bielik set the seal on the new academic partnership.

“One of the goals of the CLAAS Foundation“, Uwe Lütkeschümer says, “is to engender enthusiasm among young people for farming and agricultural machinery“. For example, subsidies are awarded to students from various countries through the Helmut Claas Scholarship. “Through our partnership with the University of Nitra, we also aim to support Slovakian students who not only have good academic qualifications, but who also show a strong commitment and willingness to work at an international level."

Members of the CLAAS Management visited the partner university in Nitra. From left to right: Dr. Michael Quinckhardt, Dr. Hagen Adam, Uwe Lütkeschümer and Vladimir Bohaty.

The partner university of 2010 will receive a €15,000 donation from the CLAAS Foundation. “We look forward to a long and lasting relationship between the University of Nitra and our Foundation“, Uwe Lütkeschümer said summing up.

The foundation’s Managing Director was accompanied by other members of the CLAAS Management. Dr. Michael Quinckhardt, the long-standing Managing Director of CLAAS Agrosystems and a member of the Foundation Team; CIT Director of Development Dr. Hagen Adam, who incidentally himself studied in Nitra; Vladimir Bohaty, CLAAS representive in Slovakia; as well as Jaroslav Moravcik, of CLAAS importer Agrall.

The Slovakian University of Agriculture in Nitra was established in 1952. It is the only agricultural institution of higher education in Slovakia and offers 50 different degree courses.

Nitra is a city with 90,000 inhabitants in Western Slovakia, around 100 kilometres to the north east of Bratislava.