library, numerous didactic rooms/laboratories, and a media center with integrated recording studio can be found. The Language Self-Learning Center aims to improve language skills of students individually by integrating multimedia systems. The main auditorium contains more than 250 seats and high-tech equipment. Since the 2006 summer term, a Student Service Center takes care of students’ needs. Moreover, Hochschule Harz is equipped with WiFi internet access, bundled service facilities (dining hall, cafeteria, halls of residence), and offers a large selection of sports facilities, a broad cultural program and a variety of student associations. A beach volleyball court, an open air chess installation, fitness rooms, and a modern sports hall are also situated on the campus in Wernigerode. Campus Halberstadt In the 2004/2005 winter term, the Department of Public Management started teaching at the new campus of Hochschule Harz: Domplatz Halberstadt. In the city center of Halberstadt old and new architecture is fused together and forms three buildings. The large lecture hall designed along the lines of the British Commons has room for lectures and public events. In addition to regular language courses, a Language Self-Learning Center is available to students at Halberstadt, too. The dining hall “Domcafete” of the Student Union Magdeburg was recently established. International alignment By converting the course offer into internationally recognized Bachelor's degree programs and introducing Master's degree programs, the Bologna Process is taken into account by Hochschule Harz. Due to the comparability of final examinations, the creation of a European education system enables increased individual mobility within the course of studies and an international career after completing university. The international profile of Hochschule Harz is reflected by intense language courses in all degree programs, international course offers, and the application of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in all Departments. Currently, the International Office is responsible for 71 cooperations with foreign partner universities in 28 countries worldwide. Each term, more than 100 students from Hochschule Harz benefit from the opportunity to study abroad for one or more terms (outgoing). Concurrently, approx. the same number of multinational students is welcomed as full-time or exchange students at Hochschule Harz (incoming). Research Hochschule Harz is the location of the Centre of Competence for “Information and Communication Technologies, Tourism and Services” that is part of the research initiative “Network of Excellence for Applied and Transfer-oriented Research” (KAT) in Saxony-Anhalt. Within this network, applied research activities of all institutions of higher