A BRIEF REPORT OF AN INTERNSHIP EMBARKED ON BY EMELIA DEDAA GYIMAH TO GöTTINGEN, GERMANY UNDER AUSPICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF STUDENT FOR TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE GHANA FROM 1 ST JULY TO 31 ST AUGUST 2008 Under the auspices of IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience), I, Emelia Dedaa Gyimah, had my practical training in the Georg August University, Department of Crop Sciences, Gottingen- Germany within a period of two months, that is from 1 st July, 2008 to 31 st August 2008. My practical training was based on my course of study, thus Theoretical and Applied Biology (Biological Science). IAESTE has helped me immensely to understand the practical prospect of some topics in my course, my unforgettable experience and many social as well as cultural adventures. At the Department of Crop Science the Head of Department was Dr. Joachim Schulze and I worked under the supervision of Mr. Ricardo Cabeza Perez. I worked on the concentration of Phosphorus in soils and plants in the laboratory. I was also involved in green house and field work in connection with mineral nutrition of plants. We had the field experiment in towns namely Sattenhausen, Gieboldenhausen and Lutterbeck. Several procedures of plant growth in the green house, measurement of Sodium Chloride concentration in a soil were also studied. I did study techniques in plants physiology thus, Nitrogen fixation, Stem-cutting techniques, measurement of fresh and dry weights of plants and also vegetative propagation of plants. The machines, chemicals, materials and equipments available facilitated the ease of the internship and have really given me the technical know-how and the basic rudiments as a biologist having had the chance of using state of the art equipments like the spectrophotometer which was used in the measurement of various elements such as phosphorus, Because of this internship, I have gain the needed advantage and I am better placed in relation to some topics as Hydroponicity, the activity of Nitrogen-fixing bacteria and the mechanism of fixation since the practical experience has really made the explanations easier. Apart from the educational and technical experience, social functions such as barbecues, tours and seminars were organized for the international trainees. We visited major cities in Germany like Hannover, Berlin, Hamburg and Northeim. IAESTE-Germany also organized a weekend- long Burg-Party in Aachen of which they invited the trainees in all the cities in Germany who had come from all over the world. Students from different part of the world thus, Brazil, Turkey, Iran, Croatia, United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Poland and so many others were present. We had a lot of fun