The Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions (HGE) is a private, state-recognized university under non-profit management and stands for ensuring academic training in the health professions as well as cross-sector networking and care.
The establishment of the HGE extends the academic offering for health professions to the north-eastern region of Brandenburg. The HGE opens up attractive, local and equally practical conditions for study, further training and recognition in the health professions and thus makes an active and sustainable contribution to the recruitment of specialist staff and thus to securing health care.
The focus of the HGE is university qualification in the area of health professions. The courses offered primarily include dual (practice-integrating) courses in the area of traditional health professions. In line with the university's self-image of seeing lifelong learning as an ongoing process of personal and professional development, it is also planned to develop and offer part-time postgraduate courses and university-based continuing education. With its offering, the HGE occupies a niche in the state of Brandenburg and has set itself the goal of counteracting the shortage of skilled workers in a dynamic, timely and future-oriented manner.
For primary qualifying bachelor's degree programs, the university formulates its clear claim to strengthen the direct health care of the Brandenburg population and beyond by qualifying reflective practitioners. Using a stable cross-sector network, the innovations emanating from the HGE can be directly integrated into direct care processes, evaluated and continuously developed together with the practice partners. As a result, the expected increases in competence through academically trained specialists should directly benefit the people being cared for and their relatives and friends. They should contribute to improving the quality and safety of care by helping to achieve the best possible, evidence-based health care.
For future part-time bachelor's degree programs, the HGE formulates the clear aim of promoting the academization of health professionals who have already been trained - mostly under old law - and the associated academic qualification of reflective practitioners in the Brandenburg region and beyond. The HGE strives to make a significant contribution to the higher education qualification of practice instructors in the region.
The Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions will be a state-recognized university under non-profit management. Regionally integrated and in cooperation with national and international partners, it is oriented towards the global challenges of maintaining people's health. With particular consideration of vulnerable population groups in the state of Brandenburg, our university is actively involved in the further development of cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary and interprofessional care as well as prevention.
Our university creates and lives a university culture that is based on personal responsibility, creativity, the ability to reflect and resolve conflicts, appreciation, dialogue and participation. Its work is guided by the principles of diversity and equal opportunities.
Our university reflects the competency-oriented educational processes between students, teachers and external experts from science, practice and society. It thus creates the basis for successful lifelong learning.
Our university is conceptually, thematically, in terms of personnel and organisation with the study of health professions, further education and with our practice partners and is oriented towards the international scientific standards of health care.
Our university stands for transformative education as well as application-oriented research and development. It is anchored in disciplines and has an interdisciplinary approach.
Our university promotes the achievement of study objectives and the maintenance of competitiveness through modern skills labs and a contemporary technical infrastructure.
Our graduates have reflective, professional and practice-based professional competence for human-centered nursing, diagnostic and therapeutic care, with particular attention to constantly changing care needs.
The basic regulations of the HGE and other regulations regulate the management and decision-making structures of the university. In addition to the Executive Board, the HGE's organizational chart provides for the Academic Senate as the central and decision-making body and a Board of Trustees, which has an advisory function.
Within the framework of a presidential university structure, the university bodies ensure compliance with legal requirements and regulations and shape the academic discourse of the HGE.
Academic Senate
The most important and central body of the university is the Academic Senate. It decides on the academic affairs of the university. The Academic Senate meets regularly every quarter and is made up of the members of the Executive Board and elected representatives of all status groups. These are re-elected every two years. The professors (majority), the academic staff, the administrative staff and the students are represented.
The tasks of the Academic Senate are regulated in the constitution. To carry out its tasks, the Academic Senate forms committees and commissions that advise it in the performance of its tasks and provide operational support. All status groups should be represented in commissions and committees.
The meetings of the Senate are essentially open to the university public, with the exception of personnel and financial matters.
AStA – Student representation
The students elect representatives (study cohort and study program or year group representatives, student representatives in the Academic Senate and a university-wide General Student Committee - AStA). These protect the interests of the students within the departments, university-wide and externally, contribute to the realization of the goals and tasks of the HGE and advise the students in all student matters.
Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees provides the university management with advice in carrying out its tasks and in its cooperation with the sponsoring company. The Board of Trustees will include the university management, the sponsoring association and representatives from politics, culture and business (particularly from professional practice) who are not members of the university.
Advisory Board
Advisory boards provide the department with advice on curricular work. They also support the university in organizing consensus conferences, workshops and symposia. The advisory board will include the extended university management, the sponsoring association and representatives from professional associations and professional practice who are not members of the university.
The university's sponsor, the Academy of Health Berlin/Brandenburg eV (AdG), as the direct successor to the former "Eberswalde Medical College", has been deeply involved in Brandenburg's health care system for more than 40 years. Through the structures (administrative, training and care structures) and networks of the AdG, there are diverse relationships at the municipal, state and federal levels as well as at the economic, social and political levels.
With 28 legal member companies and currently 3,800 training participants at four locations, the AdG is one of the largest non-profit, state-recognized educational institutions for health professions in Germany. The association is made up of clinics, health and care centers as well as nursing and senior citizen facilities, 14 of which are in the state of Brandenburg.
With the founding of the Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions (HGE) and the associated creation of additional study places, initially for nursing professionals and midwives, the AdG and its member companies are making a significant contribution to the academic qualification and further development of health professions and thus to the urgently needed training, recruitment and retention of specialists in the health sector for the state of Brandenburg and beyond.
At the same time, the AdG sponsoring association maintains long-standing international cooperation relationships, particularly with universities in Austria and Vietnam, and is intensively committed to the training and integration of international specialists into the German (Brandenburg) healthcare market. Internationally oriented and at the same time regionally anchored, the association can act in this role as an important link between vocational training, science and the healthcare system of the state of Brandenburg.