Office for scientific further education at the University of Hamburg
The Office for Scientific Further Education ( AWW ) is the University of Hamburg's central institution for further education and lifelong learning. It develops further education offers in cooperation with faculties and departments of the University of Hamburg, partner universities, professional and professional associations, companies and other institutions.
The AWW is one of the largest institutions for higher education in Germany with 12 permanent and 13 student employees, around 4,500 participants per semester and around 120 lecturers.
offer
The AWW is available to all faculties of the university for projects in scientific further education and lifelong learning. The university’s continuing education program, for which AWW is jointly responsible, is open to people with and without a university degree, to employed people and to people in their part-time and post-professional life. It is the point of contact and cooperation partner for companies, associations and state institutions in university continuing education. At national and European level, she participates in the further development of the area of responsibility.
The range of professional training at AWW consists of the following extra-occupational courses and study programs (as of January 2017):
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Certificate)
- Labor law: protection against dismissal and works constitution (certificate)
- Employment contract law (certificate)
- Labor Law: Introduction and Basics (Certificate)
- Company health management (certificate)
- Business administration: Doing business effectively and efficiently (certificate)
- Business Administration: Introduction and Basics (Certificate)
- Change Management and Learning in Organizations (Certificate)
- Interpreting and translation for courts and authorities (certificate)
- Sign Language Education (Certificate)
- Basics of e-moderation (certificate)
- Integrative Learning Therapy (Master of Arts)
- IT security management (certificate)
- Conflict Counseling and Mediation (Certificate)
- Curating. Design and manage exhibitions (certificate)
- Managing Projects (in English) (certificate)
- Marketing: How Companies go to Market (in English) (certificate)
- Meditation in groups and teams (certificate)
- Management for executives (certificate)
- Personnel and organizational development (certificate)
- Project, process and quality management (certificate)
- Deaf sign language interpreter (certificate)
- Train the E-Trainer (certificate)
- Knowledge management (certificate)
- Contemporary art since the 1960s (certificate)
- ZQ Alpha - additional qualification of teachers in integration courses with literacy (certificate)
Organizational form
The office for scientific further education is an operating unit of the university according to § 93 of the Hamburg University Act (HmbHG). Operating units are used to provide services. In the case of the AWW, it is about a central competence and service center for lifelong learning at the University of Hamburg, in particular the development of the further training mandate, which is legally defined in § 3 Paragraph 1 and § 57 of the HmbHG.
development
history
The office has existed since 1975. It was founded under the name "Contact Point for Scientific Further Education" as a model experiment by the former Federal-State Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion (BLK) and initially belonged to the former Department of Education at the university. In the first few years, the main activity of the facility consisted of seminar courses . It was about lectures by Hamburg university teachers, which were carried out together with cooperation partners, mostly recognized further education institutions, in northern Germany. At the end of the model project phase, an initial further education course was added.
The establishment of the institution as a permanent unit within the university took place in stages. At first, after the end of the pilot project, it was decided to budget the temporary positions. In further steps, the central settlement of the offices, the renaming of the Laboratory for Scientific Further Education (AWW) and the formation of a central operating unit, which was finally approved at the beginning of 1986 by the competent authority for science, research and equality .
Field of activity
In the summer semester of 1982, the AWW took over the general lecture system (AV), the public lectures at the University of Hamburg, in its offer. The AV had previously been revived in the course of a discussion on the subject of “public science” at the university. It stands in the tradition of the university expansion movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the previous institution of the same name, which was incorporated into the higher education context when the university was founded in 1919. Today the AV is one of the basic pillars of general academic further education at the university.
In the 1993/94 winter semester, the AWW offered contact studies for older adults (KSE) for the first time. At the beginning, 345 students registered. Today there are around 2,100 people in winter and around 1,600 people in summer who put together their free studies from the around 400 events that are offered each semester.
In 2002 the AWW started a new media project, which involved the development and establishment of e-learning modules in management and qualification in the field of teaching and course design on the Internet. In recent years, the AWW has increasingly been used in joint projects with companies to develop and test e-learning approaches.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Magdalene Asbeck: Staff: Contact: University of Hamburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Giselind Werner: About the AWW: AWW: Universität Hamburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Timo Helmke: Further education offer A to Z: Professional further education: University of Hamburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
