Today’s episode highlights include: • How to obtain a PhD in Germany via the individual track • The German perspective on US and Canadian research • Germany in the 21st century - reunification, immigration and national identity • This week’s travel suggestion is the German-Polish city Görlitz/Zgorzelec – you may already know it from movies.

Today’s Coffee Connection is Swen Steinberg, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queens University in Canada and one of our dedicated DAAD Research Ambassadors.