germany's first university of applied sciences egtc
european crouping of territorial cooperation
We are an international and multicultural faculty where all courses are offered exclusively in English for students with global ambitions. Practical exercises are integrated into the lectures and implemented during the practical semester, which is compulsory for all Bachelor students. Our philosophy enshrines a harmonious and colourful cooperation, which we have laid down in our guidelines for teaching and learning at the European Campus Rottal-Inn.
Prof. Dr. Georg Christian Steckenbauer, Faculty Dean
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labs & projects
With the best technical equipment, the labs and workshops offer the basis for modern and practical hands-on education. Modern technology based on industrial standards make it possible for you to deepen the knowledge you've acquired in lectures during all phases of your course. In addition, labs provide the basis for numerous R&D projects and therefore students have a wide range of bachelor's and master's projects to work on.
- Multifunctional lab for Chemistry and Material Science
- DigiHealth & Smart Tourism Lab
- Sustainability Lab
- EEE lab - for Electrical and Energy Technology
- HSB Lab - for healthy and sustainable buidlings
university certificate for intercultural competence
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positions & infos
Dean
Vice Dean
Dean of Studies
Women's Representative
- Anna Schmaus-Klughammer
- Claudia Nikitsin (deputy)
Course Coordinators
- Energy Systems Engineering: Prof. Dr. Stefan Mátéfi-Tempfli
- International Tourism Management / Health and Medical Tourism: Prof. Dr. Marcus Herntrei
- Health Informatics: Prof. Dr. Thomas Spittler
- Industrial Engineering: Prof. Dr. Raimund Brotsack
- International Tourism Development: Prof. Dr. Marcus Herntrei
- Digital Health: Prof. Dr. Georgi Chaltikyan
- Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: Prof. Dr. Michael Laar
- Global Public Health: Prof. Dr. Sabine Dittrich
Student advisory
- Energy Systems Engineering: Prof. Dr. Stefan Mátéfi-Tempfli
- International Tourism Management / Health and Medical Tourism: Prof. Dr. Marcus Herntrei
- Health Informatics: Prof. Dr. Thomas Spittler
- Industrial Engineering: Prof. Dr. Raimund Brotsack
- International Tourism Development: Prof. Dr. Marcus Herntrei
- Digital Health: Prof. Dr. Georgi Chaltikyan
- Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: Prof. Dr. Michael Laar
- Global Public Health: Prof. Dr. Sabine Dittrich
Internship coordinators
- Prof. Dr. Marcus Herntrei (International Tourism Management / Health and Medical Tourism)
- Prof. Dr. Dominik Böhler (Health Informatics)
- Prof. Dr. Sascha Kreiskott (Industrial Engineering)
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Siebel (Building Products and Processes)
Foreign representative
- Ibrahim Bader
Exam board
- Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Marcus Herntrei
- Members: Prof. Dr. Sascha Kreiskott, Anna Schmaus-Klughammer
Faculty council:
Members by virtue of office
- Prof. Dr. Georg Christian Steckenbauer, Dean
- Prof. Dr. Sascha Kreiskott, Vice Dean
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Dittrich, Dean of Studies
- Anna Schmaus-Klughammer, Women's Representive
Elected representatives Professors
- Prof. Dr. Robert Feicht
- Prof. Dr. Michael Laar
- Prof. Dr. Katerina Volchek
- Prof. Dr. Mouzhi Ge
- Prof. Dr. Georgi Chaltikyan
- Prof. Markus Hainthaler
Elected representatives scientific personnel
Elected representatives non-academic staff
Assistance
- Faculty representatives: Claudia Hageneder, Stefanie Detter
- Secretary: Elisabeth Müller, Valentin Bauer
- Course assistant (ITM, ITD): Verena Sedlatschek
- Course assistant (HI, DH): Brigitte Hiefinger
- Course assistant (GPH): Stefanie Detter
- Course assistant (IE, ESE, HSB): Verena Laura Hager
- Course assistant (BPP): Elisabeth Müller
We can't change the wind, but we can set the sails differently. (Aristotle)
The studies are an important milestone in life. During your studies, you want to build up the necessary professional and social skills and gain important experience for the future, in order to realise your own potentials later in life. On this path, you take on a lot of responsibility. You’re facing new challenges every day, which often require a lot of strength and energy.
In life, however, not everything always goes according to plan. That can also happen in your studies. Many unexpected problems can be solved quickly if you get competent help in time. It often helps at first if you can talk about your worries and problems with someone.
StuCoS
The "Student Counselling Service" (StuCoS) at the European Campus Rottal-Inn is aimed at students who feel the need to talk confidentially about themselves and their personal situation. The students are supported in looking at their own situation "from the outside in", looking for and finding solutions together, in order to ultimately get out of a difficult situation.
StuCoS sees itself as the first point of contact for very personal concerns of those seeking advice. Since the counsellor cannot be an expert in all areas, they work confidentially and closely networked with other counselling centres in the region. In this way, you will receive comprehensive professional guidance and support in your personal concerns.
Counselling services
The counselling centre “StuCoS“ can help you in the following areas and situations:
Psychosocial counselling:
- General issues of daily life and social integration
- Conflicts with fellow students, teachers or in your relationship, etc.
- Dissatisfaction with your social situation
- Psychological stress caused by studying
- Socialising difficulties or other issues that are bothering you
Study guidance:
The following questions often come up in connection with your studies:
- What is expected of me as a student in terms of learning?
- Which study methods are best suited for daily learning in studies?
- Are my self-competences dependent on my own learning success?
Often these questions cannot be answered on their own. You will receive competent support in the following areas:
- Problems with learning through coaching, e.g.: effective exam preparation
- Stress and studying, relaxation techniques, learning techniques
- Self/time management, diary to manage your study time, etc.
Further information
Contact person and consultant
Claudia Nikitsin - research assistant and deputy faculty women's representative at the European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) in Pfarrkirchen
- Studied Pedagogy, Educational Science, German with the 1st State Examination at the University of Paderborn
- Certified training as a telephone counsellor in the TelefonSeelsorge (TS) with many years of work experience
- Methodological-didactic further training in areas such as pedagogical learning guidance, non-violent communication according to Marshall B. Rosenberg, Mental health problems among students and tutor qualification (DIZ)
- Conception and collaboration in various university projects on learning support for young adults
Contact
You can send me an email with a short description of your personal concerns and to arrange a personal counselling appointment: stucos-ecri@th-deg.de
You will find all important information and dates of the Career Service, International Office and Language & Electives Centre at the European Campus Rottal-Inn in our semester guide for the winter semester 2022/23.
Our courses are accredited or in the process of being accredited by ASIIN or FIBAA. For further information please go to the respective course page.
sustainability
Sustainability is an integral part of the university operations at the European Campus Rottal-Inn. With a variety of projects and activities we make sustainability a tangible experience. As a university, we train multipliers and thus bear a responsibility in shaping a sustainable future.
Promotion of skills and raising awareness in the sense of education for sustainable development through innovative teaching, actions, excursions and the development of projects related to topics of sustainability.
We use the synergies between our projects and network partners to creatively address innovative issues related to sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Sustainability Lab is open to all professors, staff & students for project work, teaching and final theses.
International days bring together activities, projects and ideas around a single theme and make it accessible to a broad public in a variety of ways. At the European Campus Rottal-Inn, university members use thematically appropriate days as hooks to present study programmes, research projects or current topics in various formats on campus. Whether it's an interview, a competition announcement or a short contribution via the social media channels - there are no limits to creativity to generate attention for this day and provide information.
Here you can find all previous articles on the International Days:
From WS21/22, the Deggendorf Institute of Technology in cooperation with the OTH Amberg-Weiden and the TH Nuremberg will offer a digital self-learning course (in German) entitled "Fundamentals of Sustainability". The course provides insights into the societal, economic, material and technical foundations of a transformation to sustainability and shows the causes for this from a scientific perspective.
Robert Feicht, Raimund Brotsack and Christoph Lindenbergerlead through the following four modules of the course:
General foundations of sustainability: Students learn about the interrelationships of social, ecological and economic factors and actors and apply basic sustainability models and analysis methods.
Economic framework of sustainability: Students learn methods of environmental and resource economics and assess the use of sustainability policy instruments.
Materiality and sustainability: Students understand the material cycles of the earth and learn about the production of materials from renewable raw materials and the recycling and disposal of products.
Energy and sustainability: Students understand the basics of climate change. They learn about current technologies and developments and assess measures in the field of regenerative energy systems in the context of grid expansion, energy distribution and storage technologies.
The course can be booked via the Virtual University of Bavaria and can be integrated by vhb sponsoring universities into their degree programmes. The project leader at TH Deggendorf is Prof. Dr. Robert Feicht (robert.feicht@th-deg.de).
Sustainability is an integral value and component of the European Campus Rottal-Inn and accordingly also means for us to harmonise "economic performance, ecological responsibility and social justice". It is precisely these basic pillars of sustainability that we are currently trying to unite in an exciting and ambitious pilot project on the topic of "Forest, Health and Tourism". The driving research question here is: "How can we use local, native forest and natural areas sustainably, for health tourism, and create added value for all stakeholders in the process?"
In the course of the INTERREG project AB291 "Forest Health Tourism Network", in which the European Campus is even the lead partner, we have joined forces with a broad, interdisciplinary consortium and are investigating this and other important questions - especially in Corona times.
You can find more information about our exciting project in our project overview.
On the world ocean day • 8th June • the student association RESP e.V., ECRI's EcoLab and the Tourism Naturally Online Symposium would like to invite you to an online discussion on overfishing and plastic in the ocean with blue park ambassador Tharaka Sriram.
In the coming weeks, information about our oceans and how we can contribute to the conservation of this habitat will be published here padlet.com/resp
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The European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI), sustainability campus of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), received the "Silver" seal in the EU-wide "Bicycle Friendly Employer" certification. This makes ECRI the second campus in the whole of Bavaria to boast such a certification.
As a sustainability campus, ECRI has for years relied on various measures to make cycling to work more attractive. Last year, already existing offers, such as the "Bike Station", were expanded and extended by a whole concept. Under the direction of the university's sustainability officer, Prof. Dr. Michael Laar, and his research assistant, Laura Hoffmann, staff bicycles and sanitary facilities for cycling employees were introduced and a cycling competition was held. The two were supported by ECRI's sustainability lab. The package of measures was so well received by the ADFC, the German Bicycle Club, that it awarded the university the "Silver" seal of approval in the EU-wide "Bicycle-Friendly Employer" certification process after only nine months instead of the usual two to three years. Petra Husemann-Roew, regional manager at the ADFC national association, says: "The university supports employees who use bicycles to get to work with many different measures. This brings many advantages: The employer can thus score points in company health, environmental and mobility management."
The certification and the measures that go along with it primarily benefit the university's employees. Regular exercise improves health, increases motivation, reduces the carbon footprint and is easy on the wallet. In future, the experiences at ECRI will also be used at other DIT locations to create incentives to cycle to work.
The INTERREG-funded BeyondSnow project is an Alpine-wide initiative involving 13 partners. One of them is the European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) of the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT). The aim of BeyondSnow is to find new solutions for the future challenges of small and medium-sized winter tourism regions. Because decreasing snow reliability and changing consumer behaviour require innovative ideas. One of the ten pilot regions in the Alpine region is the ski area on the Großer Arber.
Climate change is expected to have an impact on Alpine winter tourism at low or medium altitudes. The duration of closed snow cover in the last century has shortened by more than a month. At higher altitudes with high snow reliability, which includes the Großer Arber, an increased rush of skiers can therefore be expected in the future. The winter seasons will become shorter, the costs for the necessary infrastructures to cover the ongoing operations will become more challenging. The viability of winter sports resorts is under great pressure and this may contribute to migration from mountain regions. The winter sports resorts in the Bavarian Forest are also affected by the impacts of climate change. The pilot region around the Großer Arber selected by Beyondsnow is analysed as representative of the Bavarian Forest. In addition, ideas and strategies will be developed on site together with the mountain railway, the districts, the neighbouring communities, the tourism association and local stakeholders.
The BeyondSnow project will work with a total of ten pilot regions throughout the Alpine region to develop instruments to strategically address the challenges of climate change. "The current situation in our mountains," says Andrea Omizzolo of Eurac Research, lead partner of BeyondSnow, "shows the critical state of many winter tourism destinations. The lack of snow is causing great difficulties for the service providers. BeyondSnow aims to make our Alpine-wide selected pilot regions more resilient to climate change. The dependency on snow is to be reduced, visitor management in heavily frequented ski areas optimised and alternatives for sustainable tourism developed. This can be a building block for reducing the threat of migration from rural regions. Exemplary solutions that are jointly developed in the course of BeyondSnow on the Großer Arber can also be useful for many other snow tourism destinations in the Bavarian Forest and in the entire Alpine region".
The BeyondSnow project now has three years to do this. Climate adaptation strategies will be designed in the pilot regions with broad participation of service providers and interested parties. The solutions will focus on the needs of the regional service providers as well as on environmental concerns. Subsequently, BeyondSnow will develop proposals for policy guidelines to strengthen resilience in the Alpine Space. For the first time, a digital tool will be used to provide data-driven solutions and concrete proposals, enabling Alpine tourism regions to adapt and revitalise their tourism offer also taking into account environmental change. This Resilience Decision Making Digital Tool will generate recommendations for the transition to sustainable tourism models and help to preserve valuable regional resources.
BeyondSnow is an INTERREG Alpine Space project co-funded by the European Union. It brings together public and private institutions and experts from the six Alpine countries Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Slovenia, who will jointly develop sustainable development paths, transition processes and feasible solutions for winter tourism destinations. Further details on the project can be found at https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/beyondsnow.
The International Tourism Exchange ITB is finally back after the pandemic and the European Campus is right in the middle of it. A delegation from Pfarrkirchen was also present in Berlin, where tourism professionals and important players in the global travel industry met from 7 to 9 March. Naturally with a special focus on the topics of health and medical tourism.
"The ITB is an excellent opportunity to establish contact between our students and representatives of leading European associations and companies in health and medical tourism," explains the Dean of ECRI and also Pfarrkirchen delegation leader in the capital, Prof. Dr. Christian Steckenbauer. The tourism industry suffers particularly from the shortage of skilled workers, and that sector, which is specifically dedicated to health, is no exception. "Qualified employees are desperately sought after," says Steckenbauer. As a networking event, ITB is a perfect opportunity for the international students at ECRI to make valuable personal contacts for their future careers. In addition, the young people were able to get a taste of the trade fair at the stand of the European Spas Association (ESPA) and actively experience how this tourism trade fair, after all the largest of its kind in the world, is run. Up close, in front of and behind the scenes. The "get-together" at the ESPA Medical & Health Tourism Pavilion was a great experience.