Academy for International Cooperation

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The Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) is the center for international personnel development and competence of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) . It has been based in the Röttgen district of Bonn since the end of 2017 , after having previously lived in the Uhlhof in Bad Honnef since it was founded.

In the academy, around 2,000 specialists and executives prepare with their families each year for assignments abroad in other cultural contexts. This includes development workers and their families before their assignments in developing countries. GIZ and 30 international organizations send their employees to the AIZ (as of 2018). Around 85 people and several hundred freelance workers are employed there. The events are open to the public so anyone can register.

history

Aerial view of the Uhlhof, location of the AIZ until 2017 (2009)
Handover of the new conference location of the DSE in Bad Honnef in May 1968

In 1965, the "Central Office for Foreign Customers of the German Foundation for International Development (DSE)" was founded in Bad Honnefer Uhlhof as a forerunner of the AIZ. For the furnishing, the Mauser Villa there was expanded to include new buildings for conference and office purposes. In 2002 the DSE merged with the Carl Duisberg Society for International Further Education and Development gGmbH (InWEnt). Now the facility operated as a preparation center for development cooperation (V-EZ) . At the beginning of 2003, the “Preparation” department of the German Development Service , which had moved from Berlin to Bonn , merged with InWEnt and therefore moved to Bad Honnef. Since the capacities were no longer sufficient, several provisional office containers were set up by 2004, which were dismantled again in 2008; Instead, an empty Birkenstock building was rented. In 2011, V-EZ was renamed the Academy for International Cooperation with the merger of InWEnt and the German Development Service to form GIZ .

Since the end of the 1990s there have been plans to relocate the academy to the federally owned building of the former training and further education facility of the Foreign Office in the Bonn district of Ippendorf , which has been vacant since 2006 , because the state of North Rhine-Westphalia no longer allows the preparation facility to use it free of charge wanted and the federal government was the user of the property via the then InWent. From June 2006, the plans had become more specific, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development had initially officially decided on a move by summer 2009. However, it was averted for the time being in December 2006. The federal government was now planning to build new buildings on the Uhlhof site to replace the provisional office containers and to renovate parts of the old stock. The plans were not realized because from 2010 a move to a property in Bonn was considered again.

In May 2013, it was announced that GIZ would like to give up the Uhlhof as the headquarters of the Academy for International Cooperation, ostensibly because the location could not be expanded, in particular due to flood protection regulations . On June 21, 2013, the GIZ Supervisory Board decided to move the AIZ to the previous Andreas Hermes Academy in the Röttgen district of Bonn by 2016 at the earliest . After GIZ acquired this property in November 2013 and renovated the existing building stock from September 2015 at a cost of 28 million euros and built a new building in May 2016, the move finally took place in December 2017 and the inauguration on March 5, 2018 The Academy has 44 seminar and training rooms, including a hall for 260 guests, and 64 guest rooms.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Development workers are prepared for foreign countries in Röttgen , General-Anzeiger , January 25, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Laying of the foundation stone: New training center in Bonn , giz, May 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Construction plans in Honnefer Uhlhof are in danger of bursting , General-Anzeiger, September 22, 2010
  4. ↑ The end of the AIZ is sealed , General-Anzeiger, May 3, 2013
  5. ^ Uhlhof wants to give up society , General-Anzeiger, May 15, 2013
  6. ↑ Uhlhof: Change of location of the AIZ - letter from Mayor Wally Feiden to GIZ , press release from the city of Bad Honnef, 14 May 2013 ( memento from 30 June 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ GIZ Supervisory Board acts "under wrong conditions" , General-Anzeiger, 14 June 2013
  8. ↑ Academy for International Cooperation gets new location in Bonn-Röttgen , press release, giz
  9. ^ The Uhlhof is threatened with vacancy , General-Anzeiger , May 12, 2015
  10. ↑ GIZ is strengthening Bonn as a location with new buildings , General-Anzeiger , 18 May 2016
  11. ↑ Land is looking for buyers for the Uhlhof in Bad Honnef , General-Anzeiger , January 17, 2018
  12. ↑ GIZ trains specialists for global sustainable development in Bonn-Röttgen , press release by the City of Bonn, 5 March 2018

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