Small student groups, interprofessional modules together with therapy professions, possibility of specialisations: Professional Education; Counselling and Management; Applied Research/ Reflective Practitioner; Practice Based Project in 5th/6th semester: Planning and implementation of a project with practical partners in supply or education; practical phases with practical semester and school research part; subject-related international coordinator; annual International Week, participation in International Weeks of the partner universities.

Subject-related international coordinator; Annual International Week, in which students and teachers can get to know representatives of the partner universities – modes of exchange can be discussed here directly; students and lecturers are given the opportunity to participate in International Weeks at partner universities (Mikkeli, Ghent); large international network – through the ERASMUS programme and beyond – within Europe and beyond

Hogeschool Gent, Belgium (Pflege); University of Nottingham, UK (Pflege, Physiotherapie und Ergotherapie); XAMK in Finnland: - Campus Mikkeli (Pflege) und Campus Savonlinna (Pflege und Physiotherapie); Savonia University in Kuopio, Finnland (Pflege und Physiotherapie); Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spanien (Pflege); UMIT private Hochschule, Insbruck, Österreich; University of Stavanger, Norwegen; Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Polen; Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italien; FH Campus Wien, Wien, Österreich

Variety of seminar, group work and computing rooms equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia technology (projectors, some smartboards); e-learning platform (ILIAS); online catalogue in the library; international data bases; WiFi; skills lab (learning laboratory) rooms with equipment that is typical for nursing and therapeutic professions (furnishings, technology and consumables for the settings of acute care hospitals, intensive care and home care; video equipment for reflection on the activity; treatment benches); simulation doll for the demonstration and practise of nursing activities or guidance.

Ongoing research projects at the Institute for Education and Health Services Research at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences aim to address the challenges posed by socio-demographic and epidemiological change in the health care sector. Prevention of the need for long-term care, technology-supported nursing and care as well as the user-oriented design of the different areas of nursing care in turn have an impact on the requirements for vocational training and educational research and thus on academisation in the health care professions.

Interdisciplinary focus; collaboration between different health professions; high volume of research; opportunities for students to gain insight into project work at an early stage; commitment to junior researcher development (funding of 5 PhD positions from 2021).