University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven

University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven
activity	January 1, 2000 (merger) - September 1, 2009 (defusion)
Sponsorship	state
place	Oldenburg , Emden , Wilhelmshaven , ; Elsfleth , Leer
state	Lower Saxony
country	Germany
Students	9,551 (WS 2008/09): Oldenburg: 1.456; Elsfleth: 670; Emden: 3,572; Empty: 258; Wilhelmshaven: 3,595;
Employee	820
including professors	300
Website	www.fh-oow.de ( Memento from October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

The University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven (abbreviated FH O / O / W , FH-OOW or FHOOW ) was a German university of applied sciences . It was founded on January 1, 2000 and existed until August 31, 2009. With it, the largest university of applied sciences in Lower Saxony was created with a budget of more than 60 million euros as well as around 10,000 students and over 800 employees, including around 300 professors .

The university was created by amalgamating the formerly independent Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences, the Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences (based in Emden ) and the Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences , which are described in more detail below .

In 2009 the university was already defused again. From it emerged on September 1, 2009 the Jade University , consisting of the former facilities in Wilhelmshaven, Oldenburg and Elsfleth, and the University of Emden / Leer .

A study center of the Fernuniversität Hagen was attached to the University of Applied Sciences in Emden .

structure

In addition to the President, the Presidium comprised a full-time Vice-President, responsible for human resources and finances, and three part-time Vice-Presidents. The Presidium determined the business areas by mutual agreement. According to the basic rules of the FH O / O / W, a part-time Vice President was responsible for the department

Study and teaching
Research and technology transfer
Library and data center.

Spread over five study locations, which are between 20 and 84 km apart, the university offered 70 different courses. Most of the students visited Emden and Wilhelmshaven (around one third each), followed by Oldenburg (around one sixth) and Elsfleth (around 700 students) and Leer (around 300 students).

The university of applied sciences cooperated internationally with other universities, some with a tradition of around 30 years. In recent years, this focus has continued to be in the foreground due to the introduction of foreign-oriented courses.

history

Origins

Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences

The university of applied sciences in Oldenburg / Elsfleth dates back to institutions from the 19th century. As early as autumn 1877, a winter construction school for building craftsmen was founded near Oldenburg, which in 1938 became the “State Building School, Technical College for Civil Engineering in Oldenburg”, in 1968 the “State Engineering Academy” and through merger with the Maritime School in Elsfleth in 1971 it finally became the "Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences". Seafaring training in Elsfleth began in 1832 when a private navigation school was founded. Before the merger, 2000 young people were enrolled in the fields of architecture, civil engineering, surveying and seafaring at the Oldenburg / Elsfleth study location.

University of Applied Sciences Ostfriesland

The Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences, which consisted of the study locations Emden and Leer, went back to a support group from 1971, which was founded with the aim of establishing a university in East Frisia. In 1973 the University of Applied Sciences finally opened its doors and enabled the first 131 students to study social affairs, shipping and economics. Up to 1980 there were 750 students; shortly before the merger it was almost 3,000.

Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences

The predecessor institutions of the University of Applied Sciences in Wilhelmshaven were the Academy for Business Economists, which ultimately had its roots in the Technical School for Business Management founded in 1947, and the State Engineering Academy, which was established in 1961 as the fourth engineering school for mechanical and electrical engineering in Lower Saxony. Both academies were merged in 1971 to form the Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences and newly founded. In just a few years, the two new fields of precision engineering and industrial engineering were added to the classic fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and economics; the number of students enrolled at the FH Wilhelmshaven grew from 700 to around 3000 in 1999.

Merger

New Emder canteen

The Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences was founded in 2000 through the merger of the formerly independent universities of applied sciences at these study locations.

The merger was preceded by a cooperation agreement between the three old universities of applied sciences, which was concluded at the urging of the country. In 1999, the state of Lower Saxony considered the (looser) cooperation agreement to have failed and passed a law in the state parliament on November 11, 1999, which resulted in the merger to form a university of applied sciences. The law led to protests by employees, students and the general public at the locations. Several thousand signatures were collected at the locations, which were jointly handed over to the Lower Saxony state parliament. There were even demonstrations in the major locations.

For the first two years of the Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences, Arno Jaudzims was appointed transitional president by the Land , before the University of Applied Sciences was allowed - as usual - to determine its own leadership through the newly elected university bodies in 2002. Jaudzim's task was to initiate the first structural and personnel changes that were required for a university.

In May 2003 the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture set up an expert group with the request "to evaluate the merger of the three universities of applied sciences Oldenburg, Ostfriesland and Wilhelmshaven into one university and to give recommendations for the further development of the university". In November 2003, the expert group came to the conclusion that the merger itself was understood and accepted, but that many of the respondents focused too much on their own place of study. The group of experts gave the impression that the university as a whole was only represented by the president and the full-time vice-president, while the local vice-presidents seemed to see themselves too much as representatives of the individual university locations. With regard to the structure of the university, it is recommended that the vice-presidents' local responsibility be abolished and that departments should only be allocated. As the seat of the university of applied sciences should be considered instead of Emden Oldenburg. It was accepted in the report that the students only attend the courses at one study location, apart from exceptions based on equipment (e.g. special laboratories), and that the services for student affairs were provided at the individual study locations.

A merger of the University of Oldenburg with the FH-OOW (location Oldenburg) to form the University of Oldenburg was prevented in June 2008 by strong resistance from the university.

Edge information

In a meeting on June 17, 2003, the Academic Senate decided on University 5 to be the new name of the Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences , as the name determined by the Lower Saxony state parliament as part of the merger was too long for daily use and therefore as had been felt to be unsuitable. The number 5 should stand for both the university's places of study and for the fingers of a hand with which a person grasps, learns and works, and finally the importance of the five senses in the learning process. However, due to massive internal and external acceptance problems, the suggested name was rejected again.

The university was a founding member of the university association " Virtual University of Applied Sciences " (VFH) , which was founded on April 30, 2001 by the universities of applied sciences in Brandenburg, Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Lübeck, Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven, Stralsund, the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of Berlin.

Defusion

On February 9, 2009, Lower Saxony's Minister for Science and Culture, Lutz Stratmann , announced that the Lower Saxony state government would follow the recommendation of the structural commission "Future development of the Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences " and that the FH OOW would be merged into two independent universities should. The Emden and Leer locations become an independent university ( Hochschule Emden / Leer ); the Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven and Elsfleth locations are to form a cooperation model with the University of Oldenburg . The second new university will operate under the name Jade Hochschule .

Research and Teaching

Subject areas and canon of subjects

There were a total of nine departments at the five study locations, which in turn comprised around 70 courses. The departments were distributed among the study locations as follows:

Oldenburg, Elsfleth

Department of Architecture
Department of Construction and Geoinformation
Department of Maritime Studies

Emden, Leer

Technology department
Department of Social Work and Health
Department of Economics (including seafaring in Leer)

Wilhelmshaven

Department of Engineering
Department of Economics
Department of industrial engineering

The university had restructured the diploma courses as part of the Bologna process . For the 2006/2007 winter semester, all courses were converted to Bachelor and Master courses.

research

The research activities of the FH OOW are based on the disciplines offered by the university. Research was carried out in the areas of applied economic research, biological soil remediation , marine biotechnology , applied biotechnology , environmental technology , energy quality analysis, industrial informatics, laser technology , mechanical engineering , geoinformatics , audiology , logistics , tourism , healthcare , economics, logistics, maritime economics and social work .

The technology transfer offices were the central point of contact for creating a wide variety of university and research and development contacts. At the request of companies, the processing of cooperation projects with scientists and laboratories at the university of applied sciences was arranged and supervised via the respective contact point. Small and medium-sized companies were an important target group to support them in their innovation activities. In addition, the transfer offers were open to all other interested parties, including large companies or individuals.

Distance between study locations

As the crow flies in km	Elsfleth	Emden	Empty	Oldenburg	Wilhelmshaven
Elsfleth	-	84	67	20th	39
Emden	84	-	23	71	63
Empty	67	23	-	51	55
Oldenburg	20th	71	51	-	43
Wilhelmshaven	39	63	55	43	-

Rectors and Presidents

2000-2001 Arno Jaudzims
2002–2006 Anne Friedrichs
2006–2009 Vera Dominke
2009 Christiane Claus (acting)

Personalities

Harro Ohlenburg (* 1942; † 2011), 1981–1985 and 1989–1995 rector of the college

literature

Jörgen Welp (Red.): "Very useful": Navigation school, seafaring school, seafaring department in Elsfleth, 1832–2007 . Published by the Oldenburg landscape and the friends of the Elsfleth Seafaring School, Isensee, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89995-455-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Fachserie 11 Reihe 4.1, students at universities in the winter semester 2008/2009. Federal Statistical Office, September 21, 2009, p. 104 , accessed on February 27, 2017 .

↑ fh-rpl.de: University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 5, 2016.

↑ The new name of the college has been determined - Jade Hochschule. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .

↑ Advice center Emden (will be closed on September 30 , 2008 ) ( Memento from October 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Recommendations of the expert group evaluation of the merger of the Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences from November 10, 2003 (PDF file; 129 kB)

↑ University of Applied Sciences gives itself a new name. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .

↑ Press release Nds. Ministry of Science and Culture of February 9, 2009

↑ wzonline.de of August 26, 2009: Approaching new presidents , seen September 6, 2012.

↑ Deutschlandfunk from April 14, 2009: Report on the maritime courses in Elsfleth

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[1] Fachserie 11 Reihe 4.1, students at universities in the winter semester 2008/2009. Federal Statistical Office, September 21, 2009, p. 104 , accessed on February 27, 2017 .

[2] -rpl.de: University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg / Ostfriesland / Wilhelmshaven ( Memento from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 5, 2016.

[3] The new name of the college has been determined - Jade Hochschule. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .