Students from Chiba University and HTW Dresden, irrespective of their personal and cultural background, participate in fieldwork and workshop sessions, with the objective of collaboratively working on devising solutions to a set of practical issues. The key-concept of Global Study Program is collaborativity. In this program students are encouraged to use their own experience and disciplinary knowledge to express their ideas and to embody through cooperation with their peers a state of mind that we deem to be necessary in today's globalized world: the ability to approach a task from different angles, which is made possible by collaborating with others. Global Study Programs emphasize interdisciplinarity, critical thinking and multicultural understanding.