Last week, the India Office of Freie Universität Berlin visited Alliance University in Bangalore - the first private university in India's South. The meetings with Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Anubha Singh and the Director of the International Affairs Office Mr. Rajen Chatterjee were very interesting and fruitful, focussing on possible collaboration areas and prospects of academic exchange, joint research, scholarships and various funding schemes available in both institutions, in Germany and in Europe.