Publications - MPIfG

Service Units
Service Units and Student Assistants,
Spring 2003
Administration
Jürgen Lautwein (administrative director)
Anne Baumanns
Renate Blödorn*
Ernst Braun
Gabriele Breunig*
Brigitte Müller*
Manuela Schmitz (trainee)
Secretaries
Christina Glasmacher*
Petra Küchenmeister*
Karin Spiegel*
Library
Susanne Hilbring* (coordination)
Cora Molloy*
Elke Bürger
Nadine Sadlowsky
Computing Services
Bruno Egger (coordination)
Gunar Barg
Markus Burtscheid
Mike Liebsch (trainee)
Dirk Prygoda*
Manuel Schüren
Susanne Schwarz-Esser*
Editorial and Public Relations Unit
Christel Schommertz (coordination)
Astrid Dünkelmann*
Cynthia Lehmann*
Thomas Pott
Trainees 1999–2002 at the
MPIfG: Melanie Blum,
Manuela Schmitz, Mike
Liebsch
Management and Budget
Student Assistants
19 part-time student assistants support the researchers and
service units of the institute
* part-time
Vocational Training
In Germany, firms and offices participate in a “dual system” of
vocational education. Highschool age students who do not
plan to go to college can qualify for a variety of occupations
in three-year programs of on-the-job training accompanied
by instruction at a vocational school. In 1999, the MPIfG
began to participate in the dual system by hiring a trainee for
the position of certified office communication specialist.
Since this was a success for everybody involved, the program
was expanded in 2001 when a second trainee for office communication
was hired, as well as a trainee for information systems.
In the future the MPIfG will have two IT trainees and
one administrative trainee on a regular basis. Three MPIfG
staff members are officially qualified to instruct trainees at the
institute. The head of the computer group is a member of the
Examination Board of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce.
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