AWO Federal Academy
The AWO Federal Academy "Helene Simon" in Berlin is the central continuing education and training institution of the Federal Agency of workers' welfare and has existed for over 40 years. On the basis of decades of advanced training experience and from the central advanced training that has existed since 1972, the AWO Academy Helene Simon was founded with the reorganization and conceptual development in 1999 . This was renamed the AWO Federal Academy in 2008 . It is a separate organizational unit of the AWO Federal Association and has been a department within the AWO Federal Office in Berlin since 2010. The director is Michael Kriegel, who is also a board member of the European Academy for Elementary Education of Workers' Welfare (EAFE) based in Dortmund .
deals
The academy offers a wide range of topics for the fields of social work and social economy. In doing so, it relies on the expertise of internal association speakers and on cooperation with qualified external lecturers . It designs demand-oriented and practice-oriented qualification offers that are intended to develop and expand the skills of full-time and voluntary specialists and managers of the association. These offers are intended to help to achieve the further development of social work and social economy beyond the association.
Cooperations
Together with other training providers within the association, the academy founded the transfer center for social and health economics in cooperation with the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . The main tasks of the transfer center consist of the establishment of a systematic transfer of science and practice, the planning, concept development and implementation of training and further education in an academic format, as well as the development and implementation of research projects in the field of social and health economics. The scientifically sound and application-oriented academy offer is based on a variety of topics, methods, approaches, forms and target groups.
It also runs the study center for social economy together with the Paritätische Akademie , a joint institution of the German Paritätisches Bildungswerk . This offers its courses at the Leuphana University, the Alice Salomon University in Berlin and the universities of applied sciences in Coburg , Esslingen and Mannheim .
The academy is a member of the KONFERENZ, a working group of central federal academies and institutions for professional training for employees in the professional fields of youth, social and cultural work, founded in 1969. In doing so, it also cooperates with various universities , other educational institutions and providers as well as professional umbrella associations. Since 2009, the Federal Academy has been certified as part of the system accreditation of the federal office by the German Society for the Certification of Management Systems mbH ( DQS ).
The Academy's advanced training measures are funded by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees .
literature
- Karl-Heinz Boeßenecker: Central organizations of the independent welfare organization: An introduction to the organizational structures and fields of action of the German welfare associations ; Juventa publishing house; 1st edition (April 2005); ISBN 3-7799-1875-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Statutes of the European Academy for Elementary Education of the Workers' Welfare ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Study Center of the Social Economy ( Memento from December 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ website
