Eva Quante-Brandt

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Eva Quante-Brandt

Eva Quante-Brandt (born January 13, 1960 in Bremen ) is a German educator , university professor and politician ( SPD ). From 2011 to 2012 she was the representative of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for the federal government and for Europe. From December 2012 to July 2015 she was the Senator for Education and Science. From July 2015 to August 2019, she was Senator for Science, Health and Consumer Protection.

biography

From 1980 to 1986, Quante-Brandt studied pedagogy, German language and literature and sport for teaching at the University of Hamburg and graduated in 1988 with the second state examination after a legal clerkship in Bremen.

Quante-Brandt lives in Bremen, is married and has two grown children.

Research and Teaching

From 1988 to 1991 she was managing director of the Bremen unemployed self-help organization .

In 1991 she scientifically accompanied some of the EU-funded projects in Bremen and was a research assistant in the research project re-integration of long-term unemployed adolescents and young adults through work at the University of Bremen . In 1994 she was a research assistant at the Senator for Science and in 1995 at the Academy for Labor and Politics at the University of Bremen, combined with a teaching position in the adult education course. In 1996 Eva Quante-Brandt became Dr. rer. pole. PhD . In 1996 she founded and headed a working committee to avoid dropping out of training and was active in research on disadvantaged people at the Academy for Work and Politics . Since 1999, she has been involved in training for conflict mediation in vocational training, a project that she has been leading since 2001.

Quante-Brandt completed her habilitation in 2003. She then worked until 2004 as an employee in projects at the university for a curriculum on qualitative methods in social research and for innovative vocational training. From 2004 to 2008 she worked in the steering committee of the Economic and Social Academy of the Bremen Chamber of Employees and in the coordination committee of school-related research of the State Institute for Schools in Bremen; she was therefore a member of the training advisory board of the general vocational schools. In 2008 she was appointed Liaison Lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation . In 2009 she became a professor at the University of Bremen, where she taught in various departments before and after. She also held a substitute professorship in Darmstadt .

Eva Quante-Brandt has been director of the Academy for Labor and Politics at the University of Bremen since November 2009.

politics

Quante-Brandt has been a member of the SPD since 1981. For many years she was the chairwoman of the Juso regional association in Bremen. She was then a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Bremen .

She was appointed on June 30, 2011 as State Councilor and authorized representative for the federal government as well as for European affairs and matters of integration under Mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) ( Senate Böhrnsen III ). On July 6, 2011, she was confirmed as a member of the Senate by the Bremen Citizenship . Quante-Brandt succeeded Kerstin Kießler (SPD).

In December 2012 she was appointed Senator for Education and Science to the Senate under Mayor Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) ( Senate Böhrnsen III ). Her predecessor was Renate Jürgens-Pieper . She held the office until mid-July 2015, after which she was appointed Senator for Science, Health and Consumer Protection ( Senate Sieling ) under Mayor Carsten Sieling (SPD ).

Quante-Brandt was elected chairwoman of the Joint Science Conference (GWK) together with the Federal Minister for Education and Research, Johanna Wanka , in October 2015 . Both chairmen were elected for the next two years and take turns after one year in the GWK chairmanship. In October 2017 she was re-elected for two years.

In 2017, Quante-Brandt took over the chairmanship of the conference of health ministers .
The successor as Health Senator was Claudia Bernhard (left) in August 2019 and Claudia Schilling (SPD) as Senator for Science . She has been a member of the Bremen Parliament since the general election in Bremen in 2019 .

Further memberships

Quante-Brandt became known as the chairwoman of the Bremen Sports Youth. She has been a founding member and board member of the House of the Future in Bremen- Lüssum-Bockhorn since 1991 and of the Women, Work and Economy Association since 2002 . From 2007 to 2012 she was chairwoman of the Bremen Children and Youth Foundation and has been a member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) since 2008 .

Publications (selection)

  • The key to freedom. Relationship between socialization and denied professional integration. Using the example of young people and young adults who have remained unemployed and without training. Cooperation University - Bremen Chamber of Labor, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-88722-387-X (At the same time: Bremen, University, dissertation, 1996: Relationship between socialization and denied professional integration using the example of young people and young adults who have remained unemployed and trained. ).
  • Conflicts between work and profession. Opportunities for the design of work-oriented educational processes (= vocational training, work and innovation. Vol. 21). Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-7639-3169-4 (also: Bremen, University, habilitation paper, 2003).
  • with Theda Grabow: Company learning conditions from the perspective of trainees. In: Winfried Heidemann et al. (Hrsg.): Future of vocational training (= edition of the Hans Böckler Foundation 235 Education and Qualification ). Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-86593-125-2 , pp. 113–129.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from the Senate Press Office

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Quante-Brandt, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, university professor and politician (SPD), Senator for Health of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen