Participant full name: Fachhochschule Düsseldorf – Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences – DUAS – www.fh-duesseldorf.de) – project coordinator
DUAS was founded in 1971, belongs to an educational facility of the public right in North-Rhine-Westphalia and is one of the largest universities in the country.
Major task of the DUAS is the training of students with the certification of a diploma engineer graduated (FH), bachelor and master in the education areas of architecture, design, social and cultural sciences, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, media and economics.
DUAS has approximately 9000 full-time students, 190 full-time professors as well as 220 scientific and not-scientific employees in part- and full time (approx. 200 full-time employee places). There are existing co-operation agreements with 40 partner universities world-wide.
DUAS forces a lot of research in the e-learning range and is involved in a couple of national and international activities.
