The Virtual Campus Team

1. The Virtual Campus Team • Gunnar Prause, Prof. at Wismar Business School / TU Tallinn • Andreas von Schubert, Prof. at Wismar Business School • Michael Schleicher, Prof. at Wismar Business School • Anatoli Beifert, Research Associate at Wismar Business School • Kristina Hunke, Research Associate at Wismar Business School • Maria Lille, Research Associate at Wismar Business School and a lot of other persons supporting the project

2. Wismar in the European Area

3. Wismar University - Some facts • Founded 1908 • 5.800 students • 1.800 students of distance learning programmes • Ca. 10 % foreign students • 3 Faculties: Technology, Business & Design • Degree programmes • Ca. 30 full time courses on Bachelor/ Master level • Ca. 10 distance learning programmes • Cooperation with Wismar Science Park • Cope with the needs of SME Sector

4. Hanseatic town Wismar

5. Wismar University – The Entrepreneurial University • Model University 2020 • Target Agreement • new management structure (academic senate, university • advisory board, rector‘s office, extended rector‘s office) • Oriented on Regional Development Needs • Market Orientation for degree & educational programs • Commercial activities to finance 20% of university budget • Other important topics • Emphasis of Life-Long & Continious Learning • Activities against lack of qualified workers • Family oriented University • Support of knowledge based start-ups • Fostering of entrepreneurial spirit • Foundation for Wismar University

6. Our three faculties at a glance Faculty of Technology Wismar Business School Faculty of Architecture and Design • Maritime Studies • Mechanical Engineering/Process and Environmental Engineering • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • Civil Engineering • Architecture • Interior Design • Design • Business Administration • Business Informatics • Business Law

7. University – Business Activities • Management Courses for AKER Yards • Management Training for St. Petersburg Shipbuilding Industry • Quality Management Programme for Mexico / VW • Cooperation with Auditing & Taxation Companies • Cooperation with Shipping Companies • EU projects on Logistics & SME Management Degree programmes of special interest • Dual Programme Civil Engineering, Bachelor • Tax and Business Consulting, Master • Quality Management, Master • Operation & Management of Maritime Systems, Master • International Cruise Ship Management ( ICSM ) • Digital Logistics & Management

8. Distance Learning Programmes • Business Administration, postgraduate Diplom (German degree) • Business Administration, Diplom (German degree) • Business Informatics, Diplom (German degree) and Master • Business Consulting, Master • Sales and Marketing, Master • Quality Management, Master • Facility Management, Master • Architecture and Environment, Master • Business Systems, Master (in South Africa) • Business Law, Bachelor and Master - online

9. BVMW - The German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses The BVMW is a politically independent association which caters for all commercial branches and professions, and represents the interests of small and medium-sized businesses in politics, with administrative authorities, with trade unions and with major companies. Medium-sized businesses – around 3.3 million individual enterprises in all – are the backbone and impulse of the German economy. Through your membership of the BVMW, you assist in strengthening the situation of small and medium-sized businesses and enable them to secure a more powerful position. At the same time you, too, benefit from the services of a large and growing mutually supportive group. Mario OhovenPresident of the BVMW

10. Small and medium-sized businesses • make up over 99 per cent of all businesses in Germany paying sales tax • create 70 per cent of the jobs • provide 80 per cent of the job-training opportunities available • develop 75 per cent of all patents and innovations The BVMW • concentrates the power of small and middle-sized businesses • fights for an improved economic and political framework at national as well as at regional and local levels • influences legal Bills and regulations • creates a platform for the opinions of small and medium-sized businesses • represents more than 150,000 businesses with about 4.3 million employees.

11. BVMW Centres • network of over 200 regional and local offices in Germany • more than 1,000 qualified consultants and experts, with hotlines on economic, financial and legal topics in all business decisions • Permanent representation of the BVMW abroad with local contact partners who can, for example, provide a low-priced marketing organisation (At present about 26 offices around the world, eg. China, Japan, India, West Europe, Brasil, South Africa) Important: Estonia, Latvia & Kazakhstan

12. Virtual Campus project • German E-Learning Material is available under http://ilias.hs-wismar.de Push: HS Wismar – Login Button Benutzername: guestgvc Passwort: GVC*2010 Kristina Hunke will make a small presentation about it

13. Modules under German Responsability • Financial Policies and Financial Markets • EU Social Law • EU Fiscal Policies • Management of European SMEs • Human Resource Management in the EU

14. Virtual Campus in Wismar University • All Degree Programs in Wismar are accreditated • There exists a Binational Degree Programme on BAC and MAS level between Wismar (DE) and Szczecin (PL) in Business Informatics • This program is in preparation to be enlarged to BA to France Lyon/Tours, Budapest and Essex • In the Long Distance Programs we have students from Germany, China and South Africa studying in German and English • The Long Distance Programs will use the Virtual Campus Material • Furthermore the material will be used in EU – related programs in cooperation with SME • The material will be used also in presence study programs in German and English for self guided studies and case studies

15. Contacts Gunnar Prause, Prof. Dr. Wismar University Wismar Business School Philipp-Müller-Str. 14 23966 Wismar, Germany Tel.: +49 178 280 4882 gunnar.prause@hs-wismar.de