International education is the currency of the future | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

International education is the currency of the future | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Exploring the wide range of opportunities for Bahraini youth to study and research in the EU. Exclusive Interview with HE European Union Ambassador to Bahrain, Patrick Simonnet A: The EU is a global centre of education excellence, driven by constant innovation, and home to a large number of world-class universities which are helping create the skills for the future and the new generation of creative thinkers, entrepreneurs and global leaders. The Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium for instance may not be particularly well-known in Bahrain, but it is ranked as one of the most creative universities in the world by Reuters. Not surprisingly given that its scientists and researchers file more international patents than any other university in Europe. Similarly, Germany’s University of Erlangen Nuremberg publishes more academic research, files for more patents and has more academic citations than either Cambridge University or Oxford. Between them, the two universities have seven Nobel Laureates. And the good news is that with the expansion of our international programmes in the field of education, like Erasmus +, Bahraini students just as those across the Gulf region, can participate, for instance, in short-term exchanges with European universities, to study, but also to take