Technology Transfer and Training
 

Innovations for Business and the Region

Unitransfer, the University’s research and technology contact office, is a committed partner for cooperation between business and science. Especially for small and medium-sized firms uni transfer facilitates access to application-orientated know-how in the scientific institutes of the University. The firms are informed about current areas of research and new developments in the quarterly publication "Technology Information from Higher Education Institutions in Lower Saxony", special publications and at special seminars and lectures. As part of a Europe-wide network, unitransfer also facilitates international cooperation, supports the transfer of innovative technologies and participated in the development of a virtual marketplace for IT businesses and investors. As a cooperation partner, the transfer office introduces its knowledge into the competence centre "Functional Foods" and into the training network for promoting microsystems technology. The services of technology transfer are completed by the competent advice and support given to young people from the higher education institutions of the Hannover-Hildesheim region who are setting up their own business.

As an important economic factor for the region and as the location of outstanding research and teaching in the capital of Lower Saxony, Leibniz Universität Hannover is represented at international and regional industrial trade fairs. It is present once a year at CeBIT and at the Hannover Fair, the world’s largest fairs for computer technology and industry. Scientists from Leibniz Universität Hannover present the latest research results and current projects of international quality, thus confirming the University’s claim that its research and teaching are of the highest level. The University also participates in the annual Training and Continuing Education market. There it offers high-school students as well as people in employment and senior citizens the opportunity to obtain information about the comprehensive range of courses and continuing education on offer. For two days each year, competent colleagues provide those interested with information concerning basic and topical questions about every aspect of studying.

Scientific further training - regardless of whether it is career-orientated or general education - has been of central importance at Leibniz Universität Hannover for two decades. Leibniz Universität Hannover is one of the few higher education institutions in the whole of Germany that has a distinctive continuing and further education profile. In 1994 the University became the only higher education institution in Lower Saxony to be actively involved in regional in-service training for teachers at the local education authority level. In recent years numerous further training programmes have been conceived and implemented by the Office for Further Education (ZEW), for instance courses such as "Management in Non-Profit Organizations", "Regional Management", "Key Qualifications for Businesses", "Cultural Management", "Fund-raising", "Open University for Women", "Further Education Management", and "Quality Management". Seminar courses and participation in courses as an occasional student round off the innovative provision of courses for the region.

Of course, continuing education and supplementary courses of study are an essential part of further training. One of the first continuing education courses in Germany, Occupational Science, has been offered in Hannover for more than 20 years. In the civil engineering sector two courses of study have been offered since 1982 with the course focus on water and the environment, and on constructional engineering; the course in rubber technology has been offered since 1985. Numerous supplementary courses of study, such as "Civil engineering for geotechnical processes and the infrastructure in civil engineering", “European legal practice", "International Horticulture" as well as "School, adult education and non-school youth education" round off the range of courses available.

Meldung vom 04.04.2008