The range of educational opportunities in the Wissensregion Düsseldorf is constantly growing and becoming increasingly diverse – between summer 2019 and summer 2021 alone, a good dozen new subjects and further education opportunities were created.
Whether you are a culture, sports or technology enthusiast: the offers that we are presenting today (without any claim to completeness) in a brief overview are as diverse as the educational institutions in the region itself.
Focus on health
For example, the IHK Düsseldorf has recently started offering further training to become a fitness specialist – the first examinations are due to be held in February 2021.
The advanced training qualification consists of a combination of business-related content, such as accounting and corporate management, and practical qualifications, e.g. in the fields of sports medicine and pedagogy/didactics.
The topic of health is also a focus at the Düsseldorf campus of the FOM University of Applied Sciences: since the 2019/20 winter semester, students on the part-time Master’s degree coursein Occupational Health Managementhave been able to learn, among other things, how to integrate health promotion for employees into their everyday working lives. 
Dismissing its first certified fitness specialists next year: the IHK Düsseldorf.
Copyright: Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce
New paths in information technology
Since last winter semester, it has also been possible to study “Computer Science” at the FOM as a part-time Bachelor’s degree.
In seven semesters, students acquire skills in programming languages, database management and software systems.
The shortened “Applied Computer Science” course at the FHDW in Mettmann, which can be taken for the first time in the coming winter semester, is also designed as a dual course and builds on previous academic and/or professional IT knowledge: Students will start directly in the 3rd semester and graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree within two years. 
The FHDW in Mettmann will soon be launching the dual Bachelor’s degree program “Applied Computer Science”.
Copyright: University of Applied Sciences, Mettmann
Looking to the future: Artificial intelligence and the economy
Big data is also at the heart of the Master’s degree course inArtificial Intelligence and Data Science, which has been offered at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf since last fall and is dedicated to topics such as machine learning.
And another degree course is about to be launched at HHU: From the coming winter semester, the Faculty of Economics will be offering a Master’s degree in “Economics“. 
The HHU campus is also home to two new degree courses.
Copyright: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Full speed ahead in the digital transformation
Two new courses at the FOM are explicitly dedicated to the topic of digitalization: since the summer semester of 2019, it has been possible to study a Bachelor’s degree in “Management and Digitalization” in Düsseldorf, whose graduates can successfully help shape digital change in companies.
Since February of this year, the corresponding knowledge can also be acquired as part of the “Digital Transformation” certificate course designed as blended learning. 
Shaping digital change?
You can learn this at the FOM!
Copyright: Georg Lukas/FOM University
Portfolio expansion in the healthcare sector
The healthcare system in Germany will also undergo significant change in the coming years – the part-time Master’s degree course inPhysician Assistant, which will be available at Fliedner University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserswerth from the summer semester of 2021, proactively prepares its graduates for this change and shows them how they can help shape it.
Two further degree courses will celebrate their premiere at the FFH in the coming winter semester: firstly, the dual study course “Midwifery“, which leads to a Bachelor of Science degree and a state license to use the professional title of midwife, and secondly, the part-time Master’s degree in “Healthcare Research and Management in Healthcare“, which focuses on the quality of care and patient safety.
News about art and culture
The FFH is also expanding its range of courses in the field of culture and education: since the end of last year, it has been offering the “Art Education in Museums” course, which deals with cultural education in theory and practice.
From the 2020/21 winter semester, students will be able to complete a part-time Master’s degree in ” 
Bachelor’s, Master’s, advanced training: Five new courses are available at the FFH.
Copyright: Fliedner University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
(Further) education in virtual space
Since May, managers have been able to continue their education interactively at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and take advantage ofonline executive educationcourses on coaching, negotiation and design thinking.
The “Global Online MBA“, which will be launched in October, shows that digital learning has not just been a topic at WHU since the coronavirus pandemic.
Students from all over the world can complete their Master’s degree in Business Administration in a flexible online program. 
Pioneer in digital teaching: WHU.
Copyright: WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
It shows that knowledge is not only firmly anchored in the Düsseldorf region, but also finds the ideal breeding ground here for constant further development.
And with the experience recently gained in the field of online teaching, this dynamic is sure to become even stronger! Picture credits Featured image: © Oliver Tjaden
