{"id":50553,"date":"2026-06-03T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/?p=50553"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:35:04","slug":"from-the-belgian-royal-family-to-the-awarding-of-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/from-the-belgian-royal-family-to-the-awarding-of-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Belgian Royal Family to Friedensau"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text]Following an invitation from the Belgian royal couple, during which Prof. Dixon Chibanda presented his increasingly global \u201cFriendship Bench\u201d project, he once again visited the Friedensau Adventist University on May 12 and 13. on May 12, 2026, the German-speaking group of Friendship Bench had the special honor of receiving their certificates of completion from Prof. Chibanda for the three-stage training program. Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. rer. med. Silvia Hedenigg and Prof. Andreas Bochmann, the project directors of Friendship Bench, were particularly pleased to certify Dr. Inna Mayer, Szilvia Szab\u00f3, and Ulf Ballin\u2019s successful participation in the three-stage \u201cFriendship Bench Training.\u201d Unfortunately, the four other graduates were not on campus for this event. The ceremonial presentation was very emotional\u2014as the pictures show. Two participants followed Prof. Chibanda\u2019s invitation to share their practical experiences with Friendship Bench.<\/p>\n<p>The detailed blog post by Prof. Dr. Dr. Silvia Hedenigg can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/blog\/\">Blog<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50543\"]Certificates to our Friendship Bench graduates<br \/>\nImage Rights: FAU[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50535\"]Prof. Dr. Dr. Silvia Hedenigg<br \/>\nImage Rights: FAU[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50537\"]Graduates: Dr. phil. Inna Mayer<br \/>\nPhoto: FAU[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50539\"]Received certificate: Szilvia Szab\u00f3<br \/>\nPhoto: FAU<br \/>\n[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50545\"]Prof. Dixon Chibanda<br \/>\nPhoto: FAU[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50549\"]A student shared a story from his life<br \/>\nPhoto: FAU[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_customSingleimage ct_image=\"50541\"]Ulf Ballin received the certificate<br \/>\nPhoto: FAU[\/vc_customSingleimage][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Following an invitation from the Belgian royal couple, during which Prof. Dixon Chibanda presented his increasingly global \u201cFriendship Bench\u201d project, he once again visited the Friedensau Adventist University on May 12 and 13. on May 12, 2026, the German-speaking group of Friendship Bench had the special honor of receiving their certificates of completion from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":50543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[20],"class_list":["post-50553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sozialwesen-en","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50583,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50553\/revisions\/50583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50553"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thh-friedensau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}