German university for further education
The German University for Continuing Education (DUW) ( Berlin University for Professional Studies ) was founded in April 2008 and has been a state-recognized private university based in Berlin since then. Although she did not have the right to award doctorates , the competent Senate authority granted her the right to use the title university. The Free University of Berlin and the Stuttgart Klett Group / Deutsche Weiterbildungsgesellschaft mbH each held half as founding partners until April 2013 in its supporting company, the DUW Deutsche Universität für further education GmbH. DUW has been part of the Steinbeis University Berlin since May 2013 . The teaching and research profile of DUW is geared towards the field of academic further education for employed people.
history
The preparatory work for the establishment of the German University for Continuing Education (DUW) began in summer 2006. In September 2006, the governing mayor of Berlin , the chairman of the board of Ernst Klett AG and the president of the Free University presented the concept of the new university to the public in a joint press conference. The character of the facility as a "public private partnership" and the equal start-up financing of the project by the Free University and the Stuttgart Klett Group in the amount of € 5 million each were emphasized. The Klett Group's share of the financing should come from cash contributions for the start of program development and study operations, while that from Freie Universität should come from bringing in a building with a suitable infrastructure. The building in Berlin-Dahlem that was transferred to the sponsoring company for the headquarters of DUW was used by the FU's Institute of Ethnology up to this point and was extensively renovated after it moved. In 2012, DUW sold the Dahlem property and moved into a smaller, new headquarters in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Due to the ongoing relative economic failure, the two founding shareholders decided in May 2013 to sell their shares as soon as possible for a symbolic euro to the Steinbeis University in Berlin. Since then, DUW has been a member of the globally active Steinbeis association.
profile
The German University for Continuing Education (DUW) was officially recognized as a university-level academic university in April 2008 and started studying in October 2009. It is the first private, state-recognized university for continuing education in Germany. It is also a founding partner and academic member institution of the Carl Benz Academy (Beijing-Berlin-Los Angeles). At the DUW, teaching and research is carried out in four departments:
- Business and Management
- education
- health
- communication
With its master’s degree and certificate programs, DUW is aimed at employed people with an academic degree. Both the part-time study model and the research activities of the DUW are based on a close interlinking of scientific theory formation and practice. Two research institutions are located at DUW: The Research Institute for Compliance , Security Management and Corporate Security (FORSI) under the direction of business lawyer Rolf Stober and the Research Center for Further Education Research and Education Management (FWB) under the direction of economist and further education researcher Ada Pellert.
Masters courses and certificate programs
The master’s degree and certificate programs offered at DUW were designed for working adults and included self-study using study books, online units and face-to-face phases. The face-to-face seminars took place in Germany or, alternatively, abroad. The DUW started teaching in October 2009; In the departments of economics and management, education, health and communication, this comprised part-time master’s courses, subject-specific certificate programs and interdisciplinary certificate programs.
Study model of the DUW
The flexible blended learning study system enables students to combine their studies with private and professional life. Students can complete a master’s program at their own pace and independent of location. Distance learning is a combination of self-study, online learning units and face-to-face seminars in Berlin as well as an excursion in the respective field of practice in Germany or optionally abroad.
Presidium, management and supervisory board
The founding president of DUW is Ada Pellert. She is responsible for the development and implementation of the part-time study model, the content design and quality assurance of the individual master’s courses and further education programs as well as further education research at DUW.
Pellert has been an expert in the further training of university lecturers, in advising university institutions, and in international comparative education and university research since the 1990s. Her areas of expertise also include organizational and personnel development, management and leadership, quality assurance and management, diversity management and life-long learning strategies.
From 2005 to 2008 Ada Pellert was professor for further education research and education management as well as vice- rector for teaching, further education and structural issues at the University for further education Krems . Before that, from 1999 to 2003, she was Vice Rector for Teaching, Personnel Development and the Advancement of Women at the University of Graz . From 1998 to 2005 she taught and researched as an associate professor at the University Research Department of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Advanced Training at the University of Klagenfurt (IFF).
Udo Thelen was founding managing director of the sponsoring company and first chancellor of DUW. Birgit Galley has been managing director of the DUW carrier company since 2014. Julian Bomert is the new chancellor.
Founding chairman of the supervisory board of the DUW -trägergesellschaft was Erich Thies, State Secretary a. D. and Secretary General of the Conference of Ministers of Education. Other members were the Stuttgart publisher and publishing director Albrecht Hauff (Thieme Group), the former Secretary General of the Science Council, Wedig von Heyden, and the HR manager Axel Kersten (Deutsche Telekom AG). The founding members left the supervisory board in 2013 at the same time as the takeover of DUW by Steinbeis University. The positions have not yet been filled.
Individual evidence
- ↑ When is a university a university? ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ FU Berlin wants to sell further education university
Web links
- Internet presence of the German University for Continuing Education
- FU Berlin wants to sell off further education university
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 32.4 ″ E