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questions regarding stay and work abroad. If it is about concrete
job search, they work together with the regional labor offices (working
agencies) or private job placements agencies.
The marketing and multimedia information center is responsible
for the marketing questions. The organization is organized functionally
and partially in matrix form. The activities of the enclose a wide
spectrum of tasks (the configuration of web pages, creation of
university’s merchandising articles, university’s video and audio
production, up to the publications of the topical information which
concern their university, interface to the local press).
D) RFH University has developed with the FORD Company a Curriculum,
by which company offers their employees the possibility to educate
them self and later on to take over the appropriate tasks in the
company. Enterprise representatives are involved in such programs.
With other companies RFH University has developed similar Curricula
and allow the student to acquire a company certificate after the
regular exam.
Entrepreneurship trainings are one of the parts which their carrier centers
offer. If it concerns the vocational (professional) training, RFH
University has sub-unites (branches) which offer just this kind of
the continuing education. Some of these continuing education programs
are realized in narrow collaboration with the regional labor offices
(working agencies), so that RFH University also offers retraining
measures and courses. Regular evaluations of the lecture are carried
out every semester. With regard to the deficit balance in a subject of
study, RFH University offers classical seminars and addition courses
on the special subjects.
Joint research projects arise by the extension or supplement of
the preceding common projects between the institutes and the
firms, and are realized by the arrangements with the companies. RFH
University has the own Research and Development department
(R&D) and institutes which support research project with industrial
enterprises (also with public bodies).
RFH university supports the foundation and development of spinoff
companies and business incubators. Student placement is
organized in that way, that RFH University has developed joint
curriculums with the other universities. Only common programs and
Curriculums allow that kind of student mobility. A great number of RFH’s
lecturers also works for industrial enterprise or has big experiences in
the free economy. The lecturers of RFH University are working as
“external trainers” for some companies.
E) RFH University has close cooperation with the chamber of industry
and commerce in Cologne (IHK zu Köln). Basis of this activity is
Vocational training law, which intends such an engagement of
the industrial enterprises and educational facilities in mentioned
bodies. RFH University is actively involved in the development of
the regional strategies. They are supporting actively universityenterprises
collaborations and co-operations and the educational