Carl Duisberg Centers
The Carl Duisberg gGmbH is a 1962 established service company in the legal form of a charitable GmbH . It offers business enterprises, public institutions and private individuals international training and further education ; their motto is "education without borders".
In Germany there are Carl Duisberg Centers in Cologne (headquarters), Berlin , Hanover , Munich , Saarbrücken , Radolfzell on Lake Constance and in the Rhine-Main area .
The Carl Duisberg Centers are represented internationally with offices and training centers in the People's Republic of China , Indonesia , Turkey , Malaysia , Russia , and the Ukraine as well as other representative offices and cooperation partners from education and science.
Around 190 permanent employees are employed in Germany and abroad as well as a large number of freelance trainers, experts and community service providers . School exchange programs are often organized, especially in the field of language education .
history
In 1962 the non-profit Carl Duisberg-Wohnheim Gesellschaft mbH was founded in Cologne as a subsidiary of the Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft eV (today GIZ) to create and operate dormitories for the foreign CDG scholarship holders . Name giver was the entrepreneur and president of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie Carl Duisberg (1861-1935). Dormitories in Dortmund, Munich and Saarbrücken soon followed.
Since 1965, the company has also offered German courses for scholarship holders and changed its name to "Carl Duisberg Centren non-profit GmbH (CDC)". In 1973 the Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft eV gave the majority of shares in the Carl Duisberg Centers to the newly founded "Carl Duisberg Förderkreis eV". Since 2003 the company shares have belonged to the non-profit Carl Duisberg Foundation for International Education and Cooperation .
In the 1970s, the Carl Duisberg Centers also opened their offers to other institutions, they took over the GEPRA (Society for Practical Foreign Knowledge) and expanded their program to include language courses in foreign languages at home and abroad. For the first time, courses were also offered to prepare managers for stays abroad and in intercultural cooperation. The CDC started large projects in collaboration with German industry and the federal government in Iran and China.
In the 1980s, the CDC opened its first permanent diplomatic mission in Jakarta , Indonesia. In cooperation with the Goethe Institute and the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry, you introduced the “Business German” diploma and offer it worldwide.
The 1990s saw the opening of branches in Malaysia , Russia and China. Since 1998 the CDC has been organizing language trips and high school programs for German young people around the world and offering study trips for business executives.
In 2002 the newly established "Carl Duisberg Foundation for International Education and Cooperation" took over the shares in Carl Duisberg Centren gGmbH. In 2007 the CDC founded the subsidiary Carl Duisberg Training Center Beijing . One year later the Carl Duisberg Centrum Rhein-Main was founded. In 2011 Carl Duisberg opened Türkiye in Istanbul.
In 2009, the Duisberg Centren in Cologne received an award for their commitment in the field of education in the competition Germany - Land of Ideas .