the area of teacher training, Saarland University offers an integrated bilingual (French-German) course for prospective teachers of geography and history. A further distinctive feature of Saarland University is the fact that the university is able to award French degrees in subjects such as Droit, Allemand and Lettres modernes. Additional qualifications may also be obtained in numerous postgraduate courses. The Europa-Institut is among the very few socio-economic research centers to focus primarily on European integration. Its European law and MBA in European management programmes uniquely focus on opportunities emerging from an expanding and more integrated Europe. The university is also responsible for conducting Computer Science related courses for students enrolled in the graduate programmes of the MPI for Computer Science and MPI for Software Systems. Saarland University is one of the few universities in Germany where the entire master's programme in Computer Science is taught in English. Cooperation Saarland University is part of the Software-Cluster, a local association of universities, research institutes and IT companies in Karlsruhe, Darmstadt, Kaiserslautern, Waldorf and Saarbrücken with the purpose of fostering business software development. Notable people Leibniz Prize winners Rolf Müller, Biotechnology (2021) Joachim Weickert, Digital image processing (2010) Hans-Peter Seidel, Computer Graphics (2003) Manfred Pinkal, Computational Linguistics (2000) Johannes Buchmann, Information Theory (1993) Michael Veith, Inorganic Chemistry (1991) Herbert Gleiter, Material Science (1989) Günter Hotz, Kurt Mehlhorn and Wolfgang Paul, Computer Science (1987) Alumni David Bardens (born 1984), Physician Susanne Albers (born 1965), Scientist Peter Altmaier (born 1958), Politician (CDU) Karl-Otto Apel (born 1922), Philosopher Hans Hermann Hoppe (born 1949), Philosopher and Economist Peter Bofinger (born 1954), Economist F. Thomas Bruss (born 1949), Mathematician Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), Politician Lars Feld (born 1966), Economist Jürgen W. Falter (born 1944), Political Scientist Winfried Hassemer (born 1940), Scientist Philip Hall (born 1967), British diplomat Werner Jeanrond (born 1955), Theologian Alexandra Kertz-Welzel (born 1970), Professor of Music Education at LMU Munich Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942), Politician (SPD) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 1962), Politician (CDU) Christian Graf von Krockow (1927–2002), Political Scientist and Author Daniel Kroening, computer scientist Oskar Lafontaine (born 1943), Politician (Linkspartei) Wilfried Loth (born 1948), Historian Heiko Maas (born 1966), Politician (SPD) Werner Maihofer (1918–2009), Lawyer and Politician (FDP) Alfred Werner Maurer (born 1945), architecte, archéologue, historien de l'art excavation directeur Mumbaqat Syrie Matthias Maurer (born 1980), Materials Scientist and Astronaut Bernhard Nebel (born 1956), Scientist Anke Rehlinger (born 1976), Politician (SPD) August-Wilhelm Scheer (born 1941), Scientist