Funding for Innovative Further Training Offer

Thanks to an exemplary concept for further training that combines digitalization, internationalization, and lifelong learning as three important elements, the University of Bremen is receiving funding of 10,000 euros from the Stifterverband and Daimler Foundation.

The University of Bremen is a place of lifelong learning. Within the LIFE: Flexible Further Training at the University of Bremen program, modules from teaching – thus from bachelor’s and master’s degree programs – are used to create made-to-fit offers for the working world 4.0. LIFE offers have been available in the areas of computer science, digital media, energy systems, production technology, aerospace technology, and health and nursing to date. The job-oriented further training is aimed at various groups, including experienced specialist workers and managers with and without university degrees, those looking for work, and those returning to work with relevant prior qualifications. Moreover, contact is also made to companies that wish to further train their staff so that they are scientifically up to date.

Lifelong Learning in European Network

The new program LIFE goes INTERNATIONAL, which has won funding from the Stifterverband and Daimler Foundation, takes two further steps. “Our new strategical approach is to connect LIFE with the digitalization strategy that we are vehemently promoting,” says Professor Thomas Hoffmeister, vice president academic at the University of Bremen. Additionally, he also emphasizes the inclusion of the European university network YUFE – Young Universities for the Future of Europe. Together with innovative universities from nine other European countries, work is being done to create a European university. That will also have an effect on further training. “Lifelong learning plays an important role for YUFE.”

Qualification: Digital and International

The funds are to be used to develop a pilot program in the frame of the new strategy, underscored project leader and director of the Academy of Continuing Education, Dr. Petra Boxler. “Our plan shows how the University of Bremen wishes to develop exemplary qualification formats for the employed, for which digital forms of knowledge transfer and a cooperation with international partners are matter of course,” she states. And she is especially happy about the fact that the University of Bremen can apply for further financing in the frame of a second selection phase.