Further education formats at academic level

2021-05-06

Team of the Institute for Academic Further Education (iabw)

In April of this year, the "Institute for Academic Further Education (iawb)" of the bbw Hochschule was founded. The institute is a central institution of the bbw Hochschule for the development and implementation of continuing education formats for the business community. The bbw Hochschule is thus expanding its range of courses to include an academic continuing education programme that is expected to grow rapidly.

In addition to a cooperative PhD programme, which will be offered in collaboration with the renowned Budapest Business School, the iawb offers academic certificate courses in various market-relevant formats. The certificate courses are developed under the academic supervision of professors and are taught by them and other lecturers with university experience. Thematically, they cover the entire spectrum of the bbw Hochschule's accredited degree programmes such as medical law, HR, real estate management, innovation management, digital teaching and learning, digital industry and leadership. This makes it possible to award ECTS credits for some of them in addition to the bbw University Certificate, which can be credited towards a later degree programme at bbw Hochschule. The certificate courses are specifically aimed at managers and employees with leadership and project management tasks, but can be completed by anyone interested in expert know-how.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gebhard Hafer, rector of the bbw Hochschule: "With our new certificate courses at academic level and the PhD programme, we are supplementing the well-known range of courses offered by bbw Akademie and bbw e.V. with new continuing education content at academic level."

In the coming weeks and months, the range of certificate courses will be continuously expanded. These will also come from cooperation with companies, educational institutions and associations. In addition to local people interested in continuing education, there is also great potential on the international market.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Kaschka, Vice-Rector for Academic Further Education at the bbw Hochschule since October 2020 and Head of the iawb, comments: "In the future, we also see ourselves as professional development partners for companies, in order to jointly offer and implement individually suitable qualification programmes."

You can find more information on the academic further education programme at the bbw Hochschule here: https://www.bbw-hochschule.de/further-education.html