ANNUAL REPORT 2012 – 2013 – 2014 Mission Statement The PFH Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen is committed to generating and transferring knowledge in critical and interdisciplinary reflection on political, social and economic interests. Our guiding principles are teaching and research geared towards the needs of industry, particularly in the areas of management, innovation and technology. With our practical and applied teaching, we provide both students who are learning for the first time, and professionals engaging in lifelong learning with well-founded theoretical as well as practical knowledge and skills using varied teaching strategies. Thanks to the sustainability and practicality of the competencies acquired in our courses, our graduates are able to take on professional responsibility or qualify for higher responsibilities within their companies. Thus the PFH sees its role as being that of an interface between students as high potentials and the economy. Board of Trustees Airbus Operations GmbH | BAHLSEN GmbH & Co. KG | Baker Tilly Roelfs Unternehmensberatung GmbH | CFK-Valley Stade e. V. | Continental AG | Gothaer Versicherungen | Johnson Controls Power Solutions Europe | Novelis Deutschland GmbH | Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH | PricewaterhouseCoopers | SAP AG | T-Systems Business Services GmbH | TUI AG [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [1] Partnership: The PFH has been working together closely with Manfred Sperlich, Managing Partner of innos-Sperlich GmbH in Göttingen, since 2003. [2] Ideas man: Professor Hans Georg Näder, Managing Partner of the Otto Bock Group, played a vital role in developing the ZHT. [3] Finale: Thomas Oppermann following the lecturePFH meets Politics in an informal atmosphere [4] Guest lecture: Prof. Dr. Peter Fischer (right) from the University of Regensburg gave a talk at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Michael Heinlein. [5] Audience: PFH Professors Hubert Schüle, Hans- Chri- stian Riekhof and Joachim Ahrens took part in the event PFH meets Politics. [6] Mourning: Dr. Jörg Biethahn, Founding Professor of the PFH, died in September; here (left) with other professors and associates. [7] Appointment: Dr. Frank Braatz, Professor of Medical Orthobionics (centre), received his letter of appointment in February. [6] [7] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [1] Visiting Professor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Oestreicher from the IPE Management School in Paris is a regular visitor as a lecturer at the International Focus Week at the PFH. [2] Get-together: Refreshments following the welcoming and graduation ceremony in Stade. [3] Supporting programme: A pianist provides musical accompaniment to the celebration in Stade. [4] Experts in education: Dipl.-Hdl. Werner Rose, Mana- ging Director of the PFH holding company. [5] Bachelors: Dietlind Marie Seifert, Mandy Heymann, Friederike Anna Elisabeth von Zepelin and Sarah Winkler (from left to right.) successfully completed their Manage- ment studies. [6] Conversation: Jessica Dörries, who works in the Exa- minations Office, and Chancellor Benno Fleer talking to graduate Florens von der Decken. [7] Congratulations: Prof. Dr. Antje-Britta Mörstedt congra- tulates Raphael Schmidt on receiving the highest mark in his Masters degree on the 2013 distance learning course. [6] [7] Contents | 5 6 Development & Prospects 59 Healthcare Technology 6 Preface 60 Developments in the Area of Healthcare Technology 8 "Start-up Radar": PFH Business School 62 Excursions 9 K4 German Competence Group 64 Internship Reports & Company Visits 10 Overview of Courses 66 First Meeting of Researchers at ZHT 11 Partnership with Deutsche Bildung AG 67 Professors on international Missions 12 New PR and Advertising Campaign 68 Workshop on Prosthetic Components 13 Online Test for Choosing Courses 14 University Services for Companies 16 PFH meets Politics Lecture Series 69 Technology 18 International Office 70 Welcoming and Graduation Ceremony 20 Schools Partnerships 72 2013 Graduates 23 "IdeenExpo" in Hannover 73 Research Activities, Prof. Dr. -Ing. Richard Degenhardt 24 Appointment of Prof. Dr. Martina Ruhmland 74 Partnership with Airbus extended 25 Appointment of Prof. Dr. Stephan Weibelzahl 75 7th International CFRP-Valley Stade Convention 26 Professors at the PFH 76 Testing Laboratory & Research Projects 28 Distance Learning Centre Austria in Korneuburg 77 Good Finish at International Flying Contest 78 Reports on International Internships 80 CFRP Students Build Racing Car 29 Management 30 4th Marketing Day in Göttingen 81 Distance Learning & Further Education 32 ZE Centre for Entrepreneurship 34 3rd Entrepreneurship Spring School 82 Expansion of Course Range & Partnerships 36 "Corporate Healthcare Management" Demography Day 84 Opening of FSZ Lübeck 38 Research & Projects 85 PFH Distance Learning Centres 40 Social Entrepreneurship Project 86 2013 Graduates 41 Internship Fair 89 PFH Professional School 42 Field Projects 90 mtec-akademie 44 Guest Lecture by Stephan Swinka 45 Guests at the PFH 46 PFH meets… Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther 91 Spectrum 47 Stade Management Students put their 92 Student Representatives' Report Questions to the People 93 PFH Alumni Club e. V. 48 Trip to China 94 To West Africa by Bicycle 49 Coaching Project with IGS Bovenden 95 Staff 50 Reports on International Internships 52 Exchange Semester in New York and Istanbul 55 2013 Masters Graduates 100 Committees and Official Bodies 56 Graduation Ceremony in Göttingen 58 2013 Bachelors Graduates 103 Legal Notice There is particularly strong demand for our range of Bachelors courses with a technical focus. Both the Composites course in Preface Stade and the Orthobionics Bachelors course in Göttingen are fully subscribed. Both of the courses are closely linked to trustee companies Airbus and ottobock respectively with regard to their development and implementation. With these partners on board, we have succeeded in linking, future-proofing and establishing professional training, study programmes and academic research 2013 was the 15th year in which the PFH Private University of to meet demand in the aerospace and orthopaedic technology Applied Sciences Göttingen bid farewell to graduates. The first industries – and beyond. 17 received their diploma certificates in Business Administration and Business Information Technology in October 1999. The sheer There are similar prospects for our new area, Psychology, for which numbers make clear just how much the University has grown since 2013 was a year spent preparing to grow. The five new courses classes started. More than 2,500 graduates have since obtained that are about to start have successfully passed their accreditation their degree, with 481 in 2013 alone. The original two courses had procedures, professor and employee numbers are growing in line grown to 21 by April 2014, covering fields including Management, with forecasts and the strong demand expected for these courses. Technology, Healthcare Technology and Psychology. The PFH Here, too, our strategic partner, Hogrefe Verlagsgruppe from Göt- disseminates knowledge, conducts teaching and research and tingen, a leading publisher of academic literature in psychology, builds networks at three campus locations in Göttingen, Stade and is one of the key development cornerstones. Berlin, in addition to eleven distance learning centres nationwide. We also entered into a "fixed-term partnership" with another The importance of the PFH's strategic cooperation with its part- well-known company in 2013. In autumn, we managed to reach ners for mutual success can be illustrated by considering a few thousands of people via the distribution channel of the company examples. Tchibo – with around 700 stores in Germany as well as an extremely Prof. Dr. Frank Albe (left) and Prof. Dr. Bernt R. A. Sierke. extensive online product range – in order to stir their interest in people, our graduates and other friends and sponsors chose the the subject of lifelong learning. Through to April 2014, we are PFH at www.darum-pfh.de. This Web site is the central element offering prospective students a ten percent discount on fees for in the university's current PR and advertising campaign. We have Business Administration distance learning courses and distance already had feedback from more than 100 people, and would be learning certificates from our PFH further education partner PFH delighted to hear any other views you may have! Professional School. Also new is our partnership with the Union for the Mining, Chemicals and Energy industries (IG BCE), the This university could not exist without the PFH's committed team agreement for which was signed in November 2013. of professors, academic and non-academic staff, trustees, partners and sponsors, who place their faith in us no less than our students The PFH is one of the best business schools in Germany. Our and graduates do. We would like to take this opportunity to thank claim is based on our history, when the partners decided to found you sincerely. Together with you, we are delighted to look ahead the university in 1994 – financed exclusively by private means, with confidence to 2014. without public subsidies. Their declared aim and commercial focus was to lead the business school to academic and econo- mic success. However, the term "business school" also implies inculcating the student body with the idea of entrepreneurship and promoting autonomous economic activity through curricular and extra-curricular offerings. The success of the PFH in doing this is shown by the results of the 2012 "Start-up Radar," in which the PFH came second