The Welcome Center of TH Wildau supports international graduates as part of the “Profi plus” project, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), by offering qualification programs to help them adapt and integrate into the German labor market in line with their academic background.
We offer tailored (subject-specific) language courses at the B2 and C1 levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. We also enhance your employability through workshops on the application process and key soft skills, and we provide you with a competence passport. In addition, we facilitate your entry into the labor market through both regional and national networking opportunities and career-related support.
Beyond that, we offer opportunities for social and academic integration through networking events, information sessions, and leisure activities. We help you get to know both the university and the region better, and to build meaningful connections.
With our programs, we aim to ensure that you not only successfully continue your professional development, but also feel like at home in Germany and are well prepared to enter the German job market.
We look forward to accompanying you on your journey in Germany!
Ongoing Projects
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The Project "Profi plus" Includes 3 Modules:
Module 1: Professional and linguistic adaptation qualifications
Module 2: Strengthening employability / Career orientation and planning
Module 3: Transition into the German job market
This project is based on the university’s internationalization strategy and aims to attract and retain international talent in Germany over the long term.
Project Details:
Project duration: 2024–2028
Focus areas: STEM fields, technical and business degree programmes
Career fields: STEM professions
Certificate(s):
Internal language certificate B2,
Nationally recognized DSH (German Language University Entrance Test) certificate, Skills portfolio
Participation requirements:
Foreign university degree (in exceptional cases, individuals who started but did not complete a degree abroad may also be considered).
German language proficiency at B1 or B2 level for language courses.
Completed Projects
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In everyday university life, young people with and without a refugee background get to know, support, and network with each other.
We would like to promote this support based on the need to help, interact and assume social responsibility more strongly with the project "Welcome - Students get involved with refugees", which has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since 2016. Student support encompasses various areas of responsibility. These include support services in the context of applying for a course of study or an internship (e.g. BAföG application, recognition of certificates, application) as well as help in finding an apartment or a place at a daycare center. Our student assistants are also responsible for the planning, preparation, and implementation of extracurricular events inside and outside the university or for organizing the participation, of course, participants in extracurricular, sports, and cultural activities. In addition, we support our students in their voluntary work.
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The project of the TH Wildau, which has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since 2016, offers refugees the opportunity to acquire the professional and/or linguistic requirements for taking up studies at a German university and to familiarize themselves with university life and the region during the preparatory period by participating in a wide range of extracurricular activities. In addition, we also support and accompany the course participants during their studies and during their transition to the German labor market. In cooperation with other areas of the university and (supra-)regional educational actors, we are constantly developing our offerings for our target groups, as well as for other target groups, on the basis of identified needs.
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The PROFI Pilot project at TH Wildau, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), develops training opportunities for refugee academics and provides advice and guidance to this highly qualified target group in a cooperative process for a suitable transition into the highly specialized German job market. Collaboration with various network partners both within and outside the university plays a crucial role in this process. In addition to language and subject-specific courses, workshops, and ongoing individual consultations and coaching, the program also includes labor market integration measures, such as introducing participants to small and medium-sized (regional and national) employers or facilitating internship placements.
