University of Applied Sciences Flensburg (University of Applied Sciences)

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Flensburg University of Applied Sciences
logo
motto Very close and far ahead
founding 1886
Sponsorship state
place Flensburg
state Schleswig-Holstein
country Germany
president Christoph Jansen (since February 1, 2018)
Students 4,156 (WS 2014/2015)
Professors 80
Website www.hs-flensburg.de/

The Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (until April 2016 Flensburg University of Applied Sciences ) is located on the campus with the second Flensburg University , the European University Flensburg, a little south of the Flensburg city center in the Sandberg district . The University of Applied Sciences is one of nine public universities in Schleswig-Holstein . The number of students has almost doubled in the past ten years - from around 2000 to more than 4100.

history

Former logo until 2016
Building D, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences
Canteen - Joint facility of the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences and the European University of Flensburg
Campelle

In 1877 a navigation school was set up in Flensburg ; In 1886 the Royal Sea Steam Engineers School was founded . The historical buildings from the founding time are located a little outside of today's campus near the city center, but are still in use today by various institutions of the technical college and the university. The school received the status of a state technical college in 1969 . Since the 1970s at the latest, the location of ship operations research has apparently also existed in Kielseng .

From 1976 to 1982, Hans-Georg Hasler headed the university as president at an important time of upheaval. Until 1975, mainly students of ship engineering and nautical technicians continued to be trained here, after the expansion of the university complex , electrical engineering and computer science were also offered. Over time, more were engineering subjects added: Mathematics in 1987, technical translation in 1988 and the Faculty of Economics was created 1990th The technical department in Heide was outsourced to the West Coast University of Applied Sciences in 1994 ; the mechanical engineering course of the two universities of applied sciences was merged in 2005 at the Flensburg location. The energy and environmental management division was set up in 1997/1998 together with the University of Flensburg. The Department of International Specialized Communication (IFK) was created in 2004.

The Menke planetarium with the associated Menke observatory near Quellental in Glücksburg has been part of the technical college since 2000 .

In 2005, the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences entered the Flensburg Short Film Festival with the organization of the tricky animated film competition . The university has also financially supported the Short Film Festival since 2007. She has been a co-organizer since 2010.

In 2010, the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences hit the headlines several times because of allegations of infidelity against its incumbent Chancellor Klaus Arnold. He was forbidden to carry out his official business, whereas Arnold tried to proceed with his lawyer. Nevertheless, he was replaced by Sabine Christiansen. He responded to the allegations of infidelity with a private website on which he presented his view of things and also addressed the private concerns of employees. The Flensburger Tageblatt then headlined in April 2011 Chancellor Arnold invites you to the mud fight . Most recently, the press reported in September 2012 that the public prosecutor's office had arranged three house searches, in the offices and workshops of the college, in Arnold's private property and in an energy company that the college had commissioned as a service provider for call center orders during Arnold's tenure.

At the beginning of 2011, the Institute for Wind Energy Technology started its work with two endowed professorships. The wind engineering master’s course is operated in cooperation with the Kiel University of Applied Sciences . In May 2011, the University of Applied Sciences gave its maritime roots a modern face and opened the Maritime Center . In addition to offices and laboratories, the three-storey building contains six ship control simulators and an engine room simulator. The entire maritime-related training with the courses "Maritime Traffic, Nautical Science and Logistics" and "Ship Technology", the technical college for maritime navigation as well as advanced and advanced training for pilots and canal helmsmen is bundled here. On June 19, 2011, the two Flensburg universities organized a joint festival for the first time - the campus world. All program items were designed by the college and university themselves. External providers were not involved. An international village, insights into biotechnology laboratories or the generation of lightning bolts attracted up to 7,000 visitors to the campus. The fourth Campus World took place on Sunday, May 31, 2015.

In February 2012, the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences decided for the following winter semester to divide the existing two departments into four departments, specifically: the department "Mechanical Engineering, Process Engineering and Maritime Technologies (FB1)", the department "Energy and Biotechnology (FB2)" and "Information and Communication (FB3)" and "Economy (FB4)". It was the largest reorganization in the history of the college. With the Werner Jackstädt Competence Center for Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Flensburg, which was also established in 2012, the University of Applied Sciences and the neighboring university created the first competence center of its kind in which the two types of university have been successfully cooperating since then. The center offers opportunities for close interlinking of research, teaching and knowledge transfer. As contact persons for regional business, the scientists carry out projects on the compatibility of family and work against the background of demographic change. With the start-up center (Jackstädt-Entrepreneurship Center), a special advisory service for business start-ups has also been established. In August 2012, the protest was made public by students who spoke out against the hard grading of a professor. The professor had failed 17 of 20 students in a chemical process engineering exam.

Since the neighboring university is changing into a European University, the University of Applied Sciences thought in November 2013 that it should also deal more with European topics in the future.

With the opening of the media center of the Marga and Walter Boll Foundation in October 2014 as well as a state-of-the-art film and television studio, the University of Applied Sciences became more professional in the media sector. A teleteaching studio enabled the expansion of time and space-independent learning and teaching. In addition, in the 2015/16 winter semester, the master's degree in "Commercial, Corporate Communication & Marketing", which the TV studio has been using heavily for teaching since then, started. In the same month, the university bundled its diverse activities relating to Africa in the Center for Business and Technology in Africa, which is located in the Versatel building. The center provides education, research and advice on business and technology in Africa. Courses related to Africa are offered in the CBTA's offices, while students from Cameroon and Namibia come to Flensburg for the CBTA's annual Autumn School. Finally, the companies in the region are involved in the activities of the center through an internship exchange program.

In order to emphasize the demand for equality with the neighboring university, the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences officially renamed itself to the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences in May 2016. It bears the umbrella term university in its name , which includes both technical colleges and universities . Since then, the university of applied sciences, which has now been labeled rather vaguely and which is now in danger of being confused with the correct, neighboring university, is still not allowed to call itself a university in German . The university, which continues to be classified as a university of applied sciences, gave itself a new logo and corporate design at the same time and at the same time put a completely revised homepage online. The Flensburg University of Applied Sciences was the first university in Schleswig-Holstein to use a renaming option in the state's new higher education law. In accordance with its classification as a university of applied sciences, it is still subject to different conditions with regard to staff, tasks and powers. The then President of the University of Applied Sciences Holger Watter explains: “We were founded in the 1970s as an engineering school for ship operating technology. We were at the University of Applied Sciences for Ship Operations, and the name was right. We now have 20 courses in mechanical engineering, process engineering, nautical science, computer science, media informatics, energy science, economics, hospital management [...] We are more broadly positioned than many universities. The name Fachhochschule just doesn't fit anymore. ”As an alternative to the renaming that had taken place, naming it after the Flensburg entrepreneur Beate Uhse was considered in 2015 .

courses

The building complex of the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences
University wind turbines

The university is divided into four departments that offer a total of 11 Bachelor and 8 Master courses.

  • Department 2 Energy and Biotechnology:

Research and transfer activities

The university operates institutes and centers as the link between the university and companies in the region, the topics are located in a variety of areas.

  • Center for Business and Technology in Africa
  • CIVU - Center for Interaction, Visualization and Usability
  • Institute for eHealth and Management in Health Care
  • Institute for Nautical and Maritime Technologies
  • Dr. Werner Jackstädt Center for Entrepreneurship and SMEs in Flensburg
  • Wind Energy Technology Institute
  • ZAiT: Center for Analytics in Technology Transfer for Biotech and Food Innovations
  • Center for Sustainable Energy Systems

Cooperations

The Flensburg University of Applied Sciences and the neighboring university offer joint courses in the field of technical training for vocational school teachers and the master’s course in energy and environmental management . Joint technical courses are operated with the Kiel University of Applied Sciences and the West Coast University of Applied Sciences .

Since 2007, it has also been possible to do a doctorate in the field of economics and social sciences at the newly founded flensburg.school , although the university itself does not have sufficient rights to award doctorates. A fully fledged university must be involved in the process in order to be awarded the corresponding title . The neighboring University of Flensburg, however, refuses to enroll graduates of the Flensburg School as doctoral students because they have doubts about the independence of the work.

In cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg and other European partner universities, several binational courses are offered as part of the Erasmus program . International partner universities are, for example, John Moores University in Liverpool , the University of Surrey , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Northwest University in Vanderbijlpark , South Africa or the Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek .

Flensburg campus

The European University of Flensburg , the university, shared lecture halls in the Audimax , a central library, the cafeteria , dormitories and a kindergarten are located on the campus in Flensburg . In addition, the Flens-Arena (home hall of the SG Flensburg-Handewitt ) has existed on the spacious park area since 2003 , which houses a fitness center and facilities for university sports. There are also cafeterias in the university buildings. At the beginning of 2010 a new indoor pool and the Campelle were completed, in 2011 the Maritime Center .

Panorama of the shared campus area with the Flens-Arena , the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, the cafeteria, the Audimax , the library and the University of Flensburg (from left to right; 2009)

Former students

Several thousand technical and nautical ship officers have been trained at the Institute for Ship Operations Research at the university. Half of all technical ship officers trained in Germany have graduated from the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. In the first decade of the 21st century, the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences began operating an alumni network . The modern online portal for the alumni area was created in 2008 . The network is intended to serve as a hub for contacts and the exchange of information between the alumni and the professors of the technical college and the technical college as a whole. In addition, the network should facilitate the career entry and professional advancement of the former students, promote technical and cultural further education and promote close ties between the university and graduates. One of the best-known former students is Haron Aloko, son of Attorney General Mohammad Ishak Alako , who, as the New York Times reported, worked at the Afghan embassy in Washington. In addition, the chairman of the CDU Flensburg, Arne Rüstemeier studied temporarily at the University of Applied Sciences until he switched to the same field of study at the Flensburg Business Academy and graduated there. The soccer player and trainer Sascha Görres also began his business informatics studies here, but completed it in the USA at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in business management . In addition, the later polar researcher and book author Arved Fuchs began studying marine engineering at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, but dropped out early. The activities of the university's alumni sector also include the annual cabbage and piss tour and a summer party.

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ City Archives Flensburg: Kielseng sewage treatment plant ... supplying the research status of the University of Applied Sciences ; Retrieved November 10, 2014
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  32. ^ Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher : "Dr. FH "- university professors pissed off , from November 27, 2013
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  35. ↑ Page of the Flensburg campus swimming pool ( memento of the original from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.campusbad-fl.de
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  39. ↑ Afghan Biographies: Aloko, Haron. Political Counselor Afghan Embassy USA, accessed March 2, 2014 .
  40. ↑ He lost his post after hitting a fellow embassy member. See Matthew Rosenberg: After Scuffle at Afghan Embassy, ​​a Spotlight on Connections. The New York Times , February 16, 2012, accessed March 2, 2014 . and Rebecca Greenfield: Argument About a File Cabinet Leads to Dismissal of Afghani Embassy Staffer. The Wire , February 16, 2012, accessed March 2, 2014 .
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  42. ↑ USL, Sascha Görres  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved on: March 19, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uslsoccer.com  
  43. ↑ Planet Wissen website : Arved Fuchs, the polar adventurer , accessed on: March 19, 2014

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