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Praxis+

1. Funding period: 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2023
2. Funding period: 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2024

Funded by: Saxon State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA)

Project management: Katharina Böttiger

Project content:

The project "Praxis+" aims to ensure the supervision and support of international students during their transition into the regional labour market of the Zwickau district. The core element of the project is the establishment of interdisciplinary practical projects, which are aimed at both international and German students from all disciplines at WHZ. At least two different disciplines should be represented per project. The interdisciplinary practical projects take place extracurricularly in a regional company. Together with the company and a supervising professor, the students work out a concrete task to be solved independently.

Project supervision by:

Gina Flachsbart
Tel.: +49 375 536 1699
gina.flachsbart[at]fh-zwickau.de

Practical relevance and practical contacts to increase motivation and success in studies

Funding period: 01/2019 - 12/2021
Funded by: Saxon State Ministry for Science, Art and Tourism

Project management: Katharina Böttiger

Project content:

By linking career orientation counselling, establishing contact with (regional) companies and graduates, career perspectives are to be shown and orientation offered at an early stage, even for prospective students, in order to achieve successful career entry as well as employment of graduates that is adequate for their training.

Project supervision by:

Markus Haubold
+49 375 536 1343
Markus.Haubold[at]fh-zwickau.de

Quickstart Sachsen - Transferring dropouts to vocational education and training as part of the "Education Chains" initiative 

1st funding phase: 01/2019 - 12/2020
2nd funding phase: 01/2021 - 12/2023

Funded by: Saxon State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs with funding from the BMBF

Project management: Katharina Böttiger

Project content:

The Quickstart+ Sachsen project shows study doubters and dropouts perspectives for their further career path. This includes above all the opportunities and possibilities within vocational education and training. In addition, the project aims to bundle existing counselling services and information from universities, the Federal Employment Agency, chambers and other actors and to expand them into a network across Saxony. Through the exchange of regional actors within the network, a high quality of counselling is to be ensured and effective solutions for the challenges of the dropout issue are to be developed.

Project support by:

Corinna Strobel
+49 375 536 1028
corinna.strobel[at]fh-zwickau.de

 StuduKo - Studienerfolg durch Kompetenz-

First funding phase: 09/2011 - 08/2016

Second funding phase: 09/2016 - 12/2020

Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the Joint Federal-Länder Programme for Better Study Conditions and Higher Quality in Teaching.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Golubski

Project content Field of action H1, Alumni work:

Strengthening alumni work to support counselling in the introductory phase of studies. By communicating career paths, prospective and first-year students should be given clear career orientation. In addition, cooperation with regional and supra-regional companies was to be intensified through the integration of alumni work, so that a strengthening of the practical relevance in the degree programme (e.g. through practical projects) could be achieved.

Supervision of field of action H1, alumni work:

Markus Haubold
+49 375 536 1343
markus.haubold[at]fh-zwickau.de

AlumniInternational Zwickau

Funding period: 01/2019 - 12/2020
Funded by: Federal Foreign Office

Project Management: Prof. Dr. Stephan Kassel

Project content:

In order to address and thus bind WHZ's international alumni, the general international alumni work is to be built up with a focus on alumni from European non-DAC countries. This is done by strengthening the database (alumni database), strengthening communication and public relations as well as by establishing the WHZ ambassador programme.

Project supervision by:

Markus Haubold
+49 375 536 1343
Markus.Haubold[at]fh-zwickau.de

Job Factory - Career Service

First funding phase: 10/2009 - 09/2012
Second funding phase: 10/2012 - 10/2013
Third funding phase: 10/2013 - 10/2014
Funded by: European Social Fund (ESF) and Free State of Saxony

Project management: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. C.-A. Schumann

Project content:

Project for the establishment and expansion of suitable structures at the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, which pursue the planning and shaping of the further career of young academic staff as well as the improvement of the transition from study to employment and are focused on the needs of the regional economy.

Supervision at the Centre for New Forms of Study at WHZ by:

Markus Haubold
+49 375 536 1343
markus.haubold[at]fh-zwickau.de

The West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau is a member of the Career Service Netzwerk Deutschland e.V., the umbrella organisation of career services at universities in Germany. The network works closely with the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) and today has almost 200 members. Institutional members of higher education institutions and career service staff are committed to the development and expansion of career preparation services at higher education institutions and to career orientation and career preparation for students.

As an umbrella organisation, csnd e.V. is committed to

• the development and safeguarding of standards for the professionalisation of career service work
• for the task-specific qualification of its members
• as an interface for all those involved in the process of shaping the transition from study to work

The West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau is a member of alumni-clubs.net - Verband der Alumni-Organisationen im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.

alumni-clubs.net (acn) is the umbrella organisation of alumni organisations in German-speaking countries and represents universities, alumni associations, non-university research institutions, university support societies or university-related institutions.

Originally founded in 2014 as a sub-working group on "dropping out of university" of the Round Table on Securing a Skilled Workforce in Zwickau, the UAG was intended to facilitate uncomplicated transitions into vocational education and training for dropouts in the Zwickau district.

The focus of the working group is on identifying and removing hurdles in the transition between the two education systems. Members of this UAG are therefore representatives of institutions involved in the process of transition and vocational reorientation: WHZ, IHK Regionalkammer Zwickau, HWK Chemnitz, Studentenwerk Chemnitz-Zwickau and Agentur für Arbeit.

In order to achieve its goals, the UAG is working on the further development of existing offers and the development of new instruments. In accordance with the goals of the University and Industry field of action of the Skilled Workers Alliance Zwickau, the focus of the UAG is also expanding, which is no longer only on the topic of dropping out of university. This will be expressed in the future by renaming it "UAG Hochschule und Wirtschaft".