Mehrsprachigkeit in multinationalen Studiengängen am Fallbeispiel eines trinationalen Masterstudiengangs

In the context of globalization, the level of transnational cooperation in the field of education has been remarkably increasing over the last two decades. Besides the opportunity to study one or two semesters abroad, there is a strongly up going tendency in the number of full multinational study programs in Germany. The master program Regional and European Project Management for example is one of many European multinational study programs. This master is a collaboration of the following three universities: Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (WHZ) in Zwickau, Germany; Université de Bretagne Sud in Lorient, France, and the Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích in Budweis, Czech Republic. In 2015, this program started with the enrolment of only German and French students. In 2016, students of all three above-mentioned nationalities were enrolled for the first time. This thesis will allow an insight into the theory and practice of the language usage and the multi- and plurilingualism at universities; using the example of students of the tri-national master program stated above in particular