http://www.uni-wh.de/ de http://www.uni-wh.de/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.uni-wh.de/ 18 16 TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:38:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/bewerten-beraten-bewerben-internet-startup-wittener-studenten-wird-zum-groessten-praktikumspor-3/ Relaunch of www.meinpraktikum.de / interns evaluate job experience / tips on how to apply, legal information Apart from specific legal advice, meinpraktikum.de offers useful general information on how to apply. Human resources executives from renowned corporations like otto group, Google and Porsche give insider tips. After just one year, the student-initiated evaluation platform has become Germany's most successful internship portal. Feedback from more than 40 visited universities all over Germany has enabled the founder team to tailor the portal to the needs and wishes of prospective interns. Meinpraktikum.de now has a team of 10 (with interns of their own), who plan to put a number of new ideas into practice in 2012, with international internships as one possible area of future activities.]]> Allgemein - Left Wirtschaft - Right Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:38:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/unterrichtsvorbereitung-online-3/ Alumni of Witten/Herdecke University design an online platform that helps teachers in preparing lessons / www.meinUnterricht.de www.meinUnterricht.de. K.lab, so the name of their start-up business, develops tools and cloud applications to facilitate all steps in the preparation of school lessons: finding high quality material, planning a lesson, implementing the plan in the classroom. They will present their idea at the didacta fair in Hanover from February 14 to 18. Stefan Appelhans contradicts a widely held belief: "My cousin is a teacher, and I know this is anything but a part time job. Good teachers must update the teaching material they use on a regular basis." The founders of meinUnterricht.de cooperate with specialized publishers and journals and provide digital material for lesson preparation on this platform designed for teachers. Subscription gives access to all contents. Search for teaching materials should be fast and accurate, i.e. should produce exactly what you are looking for. The brains behind meinUnterricht.de have found ways to save time and get direct access to all documents. The cloud service they offer permits arrangement of all materials on a virtual desk, which saves search time and also actual space. Teachers do not have to copy pages from a host of different textbooks, and briefcases become much lighter, since the platform is accessible from everywhere and from any PC.
Team work makes life easier; meinUnterricht.de will permit teachers to exchange individual lesson preparations and collaborate in the design of teaching concepts. Benjamin Wünstenhagen: "meinUnterricht.de is a service specifically for teachers and helps them to achieve better results in day-to-day school life."
K.lab will present the platform meinUnterricht.de at the didacta educational fair in Hanover (Hall 16, A10/1) from February 14 to 18, 2012.  ]]> Allgemein - Right Wirtschaft - Left Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:13:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/bertram-stiftung-foerdert-projekte-zu-schwarmintelligenz-fuer-morbus-crohn-patienten-und-dem-chinesi-3/ Two Witten/Herdecke University students receive travel allowance. Allgemein - Right Wirtschaft - Left Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/schnupperkurs-masterfit-6/ Get a taste of nursing science studies for one day at Witten/Herdecke University für den Schnupperkurs anmelden.]]> Allgemein - Right Gesundheit - Right Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:33:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/universitaet-wittenherdecke-beim-interdisziplinaeren-forum-der-bundesaerztekammer-gut-vertreten-3/ Professors Thürmann, Wilm and Kettner present UW/h research on February 2-4, 2012. Three professors represent Witten/Herdecke University at this year’s 36^th Interdisciplinary Forum on advances and continued education in medicine in Berlin from February 2 to 4, 2012. Prof. Stefan Wilm will chair a symposium on physicians’ responses to patient wishes on February 2. A philosopher, a legal expert, a family doctor and a surgeon will discuss topics such as enhancement, second opinon, optional interventions not covered by statutory health insurance, and legal aspects of the patient-doctor relationship, with a focus on conflicts between patient autonomy and physicians’ commercial interests. Prof. Matthias Kettner will present a paper on the potential of enhancement as a means to improve life. At a symposium on individualized pharmacotherapy on February 4, 2012,  Prof. Petra Thürmann will speak about individualized therapy decisions to improve drug therapy safety. Prof. Stefan Wilm: “We aim to advertise the core field of research at our Faculty of Health, i.e. integrative and personalized health care. We believe that personalized medicine of the future must go beyond genetic aspects and address autonomous patient decisions in a patient-doctor relationship marked by trust.” See http://www.baek.de/page.asp?his=1.102.156.193.9283]]> Allgemein - Right Gesundheit - Left Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:22:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/fachtagung-zur-versorgung-von-menschen-mit-demenz-in-krankenhaeusern-1/ Nursing scientists discuss experiences and new concepts of patient care on February 29, 2012.
Acute care of dementia patients involves a number of specific problems.
Dementia patients hospitalized for a heart attack or other acute problems are faced with unknown surroundings and a frequently changing team of carers. Continuously changing demands made of patients also cause distress. Some patients react with persistent screams, others wander along corridors in disorientation. Nurses often have neither the training nor the time to cope with such behaviour, and ask a patient’s family to help out. Demographic trends are well known, and the expectation of many more hospitalized dementia patients in the future causes acute care hospitals to develop specific concepts for this patient group.

The expert conference will discuss existing care concepts, the implementation and evaluation of such concepts, as well as inhibiting and facilitating factors. A second focus, apart from acute care in hospitals, will be on aspects of nursing care provided by relatives.

The agenda:
11:10 – 11:40 a.m. : Dr. Klaus Wingenfeld (hospital care for dementia patients – a nursing science perspective)
11:40 – 12:20 a.m.: Master students Nursing Science (situative concepts employed by acute care hospital staff for dementia patients)
12:20 - 12:40 a.m.: Sebastian Kraus (acute care concepts for hospitalized dementia patients)
01:30 - 02:00 p.m.: Niklas Hug (findings from a flagship project in an acute care hospital)
02:00 – 02:30 p.m.: Petra Runge-Werner/senior nursing expert, University Clinic Essen (introduction of the concept of ‘dementia patients in hospital’)
02:30 – 02:50 p.m.: Christiane Pinkert (inhibiting and facilitating factors in the implementation of care concepts for hospitalized dementia patients)
03:05 – 03.25 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Schnepp (dementia patients and family in the hospital – from the family carers’ perspective)
03:25 – 03:45 p.m.: Anneke de Jong (integration of innovative ideas in nursing practice)
03:45 – 04:00 p.m. summary and outlook

Admission: € 25 (cash)

Registration (deadline: February 2, 2012): Nadja Mchiri, phone: 02302/926-358, fax: 02302/926-318, nadja.mchiri@uni-wh.de

]]> Allgemein - Right Gesundheit - Right Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/vergabe-von-20-lesestipendien-des-enorm-magazins-1/ When Alexander Schwedeler, Director Germany of Triodos Bank, came to Witten/Herdecke university on January 24, he presented not only a stimulating...
Alexander Schwedeler: “Triodos is Europe’s number one in sustainable banking. We will be pleased to make this business magazine available to students of your faculty, with its many insights, suggestions, pictures, stories from practice and outstanding representatives of sustainabe management.”

The magazine publishes six issues per year. All subscribers receive together with their subscription number the print as well as the digital version for iPad/iPhone and Android, i.e. access to all previous issues.

Students attenting Mr. Schwedeler’s lecture won the free subscriptions in a lottery.

]]> Wirtschaft - Left Allgemein - Left Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/die-uwh-im-podcast-1/ Martin Rützler, data security commissioner at UW/H, initiated a series of podcasts on and about the university. Martin Rützler presents his new podcast series entitled “Das kleine g” (small letter g) on the website “UW/H in podcast”. Six podcasts are available, the latest from the official presentation of the series when the recently appointed UW/H president Martin Butzlaff was interviewed. He talked about his application for a place at UW/H  as a prospective student (via postcard), how the border between East and West Germany affected his childhood, and about the time when he worked as a physician in US prisons. Here you find the interview with Prof. Butzlaff and the other available podcasts.  The title of the podcast series is a pun referring to the small but significant letter g in gGmbH, which stands for  the non-profit aspect (“gemeinnützig”) in the university’s status as a limited liability company. Martin Rützler, inventor and editor of the series, explores this aspect from a variety of perspectives. The pun is repeated in the titles of all podcasts, featuring the former UW/H cultural affairs commissioner Bernhard Tetzlaff, dental students Karen Kemna and Franziska Schaupp, Michael Kuhn as head of accounting and finance, alumna Paula Beck, and Erik Hoffmann as university spokesman and communications director.]]> Allgemein - Right Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/ueber-die-zukunft-der-banken-3/ Alexander Schwedeler, Director of Triodos Bank Germany, calls for a new banking system. UW/H, January 24, 2012.
Alexander Schwedeler will describe the current state of the banking and financial system. National economies are faced with insolvency. Protests erupt all over the world against banks in the centre of the crisis. The man in the street watches with impotent rage how financial wizards gamble his money away. Financial markets have become almost too complicated even for experts. Alexander Schwedeler recalls the traditional role of banks and their original responsible function in and for society. He believes that not enough has changed since the outbreak of the financial crisis; using the Triodos Bank as an example, he makes suggestions how to restructure the banking system.

The lecture is part of the student-organized oikos Sustainable Innovator Speaker Series (SISS) in the winter term 2011/12.  ]]> Allgemein - Left Wirtschaft - Left Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.uni-wh.de/en/news/details/artikel/werthers-meiden-oder-gute-miene-zum-schlechten-stil-3/ This is the title (a word play on Goethe’s famous novel) of a recitation evening. Students will present texts from a seminar in “Creative Writing” on...
Students will recite from the stories, poems, verses, narratives etc. they produced in a seminar in Creative Writing.

The entrance is free.]]> Kultur - Right Allgemein - Right Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:37:00 +0100