international - Bergische Universität Wuppertal
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Good teaching: Prof. Dr. Tobias Langner and Nina Jeanette Hofferberth – two of<br />
five award-winners of the Bergisch Lion Teaching Prize 2010.<br />
aspeCts 10|11<br />
‘berGisCH Lion’ For<br />
Good teACHinG<br />
UW has awarded its sixth<br />
annual ‘Bergisch Lion’ for<br />
outstanding teaching. After<br />
evaluation of some 13,000<br />
questionnaires, the awards<br />
for 2010 were as follows:<br />
k In the category ‘more than<br />
50 course participants’:<br />
Nina Jeanette Hofferberth<br />
(German Linguistics) and<br />
Prof. Dr. Tobias Langner<br />
(Marketing) – €5000 each.<br />
kIn the category ‘less than<br />
50 course participants’: Dr.<br />
Alexander Weihs (Catholic<br />
Theology) – €2000.<br />
kIn the category ‘innovative<br />
teaching’: Milagros de la<br />
Torre Cantero (Spanish) –<br />
€3000.<br />
k For excellent ranking in<br />
two separate courses in<br />
the category ‘more than<br />
50 course participants’:<br />
Philipp Hagemann (Safety<br />
Engineering – Environmental<br />
Chemistry).<br />
Good management: Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, President of the German<br />
University Rectors‘ Conference with Rector of the Year Prof. Dr. Lambert T. Koch.<br />
LAMbert t. KoCH<br />
‘reCtor oF tHe<br />
yeAr’ 2011<br />
At a ceremony held in Berlin<br />
in April 2011, the Rector of the<br />
University of <strong>Wuppertal</strong>, Prof.<br />
Dr. Lambert T. Koch, was<br />
singled out as ‘Rector of the<br />
Year’ by the President of the<br />
Association of German Universities,<br />
Prof. Dr. Bernhard<br />
Kempen. The President of the<br />
German University Rectors‘<br />
Conference, Prof. Dr. Margret<br />
Wintermantel, praised Koch’s<br />
leadership, vision and communicative<br />
ability, together<br />
with his respect for differences<br />
between academic cultures.<br />
The Rector expressed his<br />
thanks to the Association for<br />
the award, saying that he saw<br />
it less as a personal honor<br />
than as one awarded to the<br />
university management team<br />
as a whole and to many UW<br />
colleagues.<br />
unesCo CHAir<br />
At uW<br />
The UNESCo Chair of Entrepreneurship<br />
and Intercultural<br />
Management at the University<br />
of <strong>Wuppertal</strong> has been held<br />
since its award in 2010 by<br />
Prof. Dr. Christine Volkmann.<br />
It is one of seven UNESCo<br />
chairs in Germany.<br />
The award entails the promo-<br />
tion of research and teaching<br />
in line with UNESCo’s ethical<br />
and environmental values, related<br />
to entrepreneurial thinking<br />
and activity, especially<br />
among students. Key criteria<br />
are excellence, innovation<br />
and <strong>international</strong> cooperation.<br />
The new Center for Continuing Education bundles all UW’s continuing and advanced<br />
education offers. Andrea Bauhus and Prof.Dr. Koubek advertise lifelong learning<br />
at Masters Day 2011.<br />
KeeP tHinKinG,<br />
KeeP LeArninG,<br />
KeeP eduCAtinG<br />
In every sphere of life and<br />
work today we experience<br />
rapid change: new tasks and<br />
challenges face us, and to<br />
meet them we need new<br />
knowledge. Since early 2011<br />
UW’s numerous continuing<br />
and advanced education offers<br />
have been bundled in a<br />
new organization, the Center<br />
for Continuing Education.<br />
Committed to lifelong learning,<br />
the Center develops,<br />
coordinates and manages<br />
programs in the following<br />
three areas:<br />
ContinuinG eduCAtion<br />
ProGrAM<br />
This covers all UW educatio-<br />
nal offers for people and orga-<br />
nizations outside the universi-<br />
ty: in-service bachelor’s and<br />
master’s programs, courses<br />
leading to the University Cer-<br />
tificate, pre-university cour-<br />
ses, courses for informal au-<br />
ditors, University of the Third<br />
Age (U3A) programs, and socalled<br />
‘Knowledge Floaters’<br />
(short PowerPoint films).<br />
CAreers serViCe<br />
our careers service offers<br />
relate to personal career de-<br />
velopment and General Stu-<br />
dies. We provide information,<br />
counseling, training and contacts,<br />
as well as a cross-disciplinary<br />
program for extending<br />
awareness of knowledge<br />
cultures. our Dual Career<br />
Service aims to underpin the<br />
compatibility of professional<br />
and family commitments for<br />
dual career couples.<br />
internAL trAininG<br />
ProGrAM<br />
An organization is only as in-<br />
novative and productive as<br />
the people who work in it.<br />
UW’s internal training program<br />
offers courses for the<br />
university’s academic staff<br />
in HE teaching skills, personal<br />
development, and gender<br />
and diversity management,<br />
as well as the special programs<br />
of the Science Career<br />
Center.<br />
Prof. Dr. Norbert Koubek<br />
Center for Continuing<br />
Education<br />
University of <strong>Wuppertal</strong><br />
Lise-Meitner-Str. 13<br />
42119 <strong>Wuppertal</strong><br />
Tel. +49 (0202) 31713-267<br />
E-mail zwb@uni-wuppertal.de<br />
kwww.zwb.uni-wuppertal.de<br />
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