Presents from my dear foreign colleagues and from students for whom I organised a scientific internship here", Schrüfer explains. He is a friendly looking man who actually is beyond his seventies but he looks much younger - especially when he talks about his exchange projects. The first time Schrüfer got in touch with colleagues from Kiev was about 25 years ago and since the early ninties he has been organising a scholarship programme for students from countries east off Germany, mainly from Ukraine, Russian Courses Kiev Russia and Estonia, but also from China. More than 50 names of former scholarship holders are already listed in the report of this highly successful programme. All these students were invited by the TUM to study and research for half a year in Munich and to write the dissertation submitted for their diploma there. "Schrüfer’s list" calls Prof. Tamara Stryzhak this paper, alluding to the film "Schindler’s list". Of course unlike Schindler’s list Schrüfer’s list did not rescue lives, but Prof. Stryzhak is sure that "Schrüfer’s list" influenced the lives of all the young people named on it in a very positive manner: "Thanks to the exchange these young people learnt a lot, both professionally and personally", Prof. Stryhak says. She teaches at the "National Technical University of Ukraine" in Kiev and has cooperated with Prof. Schrüfer for many years already and stresses the tremendous value of his services for German-Ukraine understanding: "People like Elmar Schrüfer help more in this context than 20 highranking politicans", she says.