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Implementation controlling for the THGA

29 June 2022

From 2016 to 2022, CHE Consult carried out structured implementation controlling for the university strategy project “THGA 2022” at the Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola zu Bochum.

The university strategy “THGA 2022” sets out how the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum should develop by 2022. For this purpose, numerous strategic measures were described in all university service areas. The THGA wanted to be informed – particularly from an external perspective – about the implementation status of these measures once a year on a sound and documented basis. They commissioned Jens Engelke, Principal Consultant at CHE Consult, with the corresponding controlling.

Jens Engelke and his team evaluated the status on the basis of reports from those responsible for implementing the respective measures and conducted structured interviews. In a report on the results, they informed the university about the implementation status of each measure. In addition, further recommendations for the implementation of the strategic measures were made in the sense of university development. In detail, the annual report contained the following:

• a summary of the identified implementation status and perspectives for the various strategic themes
• an overview of the implementation status of both ongoing and not yet started projects
• an assessment of the implementation status by the interlocutors
• key trends and challenges as well as opportunities and risks arising from the individual themes for the THGA
• measures taken by the THGA to deal with the perspectives, including ways to reduce obstacles, if necessary
• other information on how to ensure the sustainable success of the project

“The objective analysis from outside is very valuable in order to realistically assess our project status and to be able to initiate the next steps or new measures,” says Prof. Dr. Heike Kehlbeck, Vice President University Development. “Jens Engelke has already supported us very successfully in the past with various projects. The university members’ cooperation with him is always extremely trusting and always oriented towards the positive development of the university.”

Successful application

17 June 2022

We congratulate the 34 other higher education institutions that received funding for the recruitment and development of professorial staff. We are also pleased that CHE Consult was able to support some of the universities in their successful applications!

The promotion of the recruitment and development of professorial staff at universities of applied sciences is the concern of a joint programme of the federal and state governments. They will provide a total of up to 431.5 million euros for this purpose over a period of ten years, which will be provided in a ratio of 71:29 by the Federal Government and the respective host state. As part of a science-led selection process, projects at 64 higher education institutions were accepted for funding in the first selection round in November 2020. In the second and final selection round, a selection committee has now decided that 34 additional higher education institutions will receive funding. A total of universities of applied sciences in all 16 states will thus benefit from the Federal Government/State funding.

It serves to establish cooperation platforms, focus professorships, tandem programmes, cooperative and structured doctoral programmes, but also to implement further innovative ideas to improve the recruitment and qualification of professorial staff.