Business and Information Technology School

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Her creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, and digital thinking at the international level meet uniquely. This environment enables you to develop interdisciplinary skills that are in high demand today and distinguish you from other job applicants.
First founded as an independent university in 2006, BTK is today the Faculty of Art & Design at the University of Applied Sciences Europe and is known as a meeting point for young design and artistic talents and tomorrow's innovators. Here we provide an environment in which students and professors from all over the world are encouraged to develop new ideas and discover their full artistic potential.
At the University of Applied Sciences Europe, we offer an environment that demands and encourages innovative ideas and allows you to look over the horizon.
Successful designers work with other disciplines. The diversity of medial means and opportunities results in increased interdisciplinary cooperation. Sophisticated and goal-oriented solutions require a mix of new technologies, artistic practices, research-based methods, and entrepreneurial thinking.
As one of the few universities, we offer programs in the broad fields of art, design, technology / digital media, and entrepreneurship. So you have the opportunity to take project modules from numerous other programs such as Illustration, Film & Motion Design, Photography, or Game Design. Thus you can complete your creative profile and position yourself well in the job market.
In interdisciplinary project weeks, workshops, and specialized study trips, you work with students from all programs, test your abilities, and put your skills to use with technical equipment and software. Learn interdisciplinarily and experiment during your study of design.
University of Applied Sciences Europe is recognized and accredited by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German Council of Science and Humanities both by the state and institutions. Furthermore, all our programs at UE are accredited by ZEvA (Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency).
A Bachelor's degree at UE is the perfect start to a successful future in web design or app development, photography, illustration, animation, advertising, picture editing, publishers, magazines, an established company, or your own business.
Our Master's programs give you further opportunities to find your direction and develop your style. Our International Career Center utilizes our company and alumni network contacts to personally support you in planning your career path and during the application phase.
In the last few years, the digitalization of the media has changed the job description for designers. Nowadays, designers work in an exciting space between art, design, and technology, across disciplines and international borders. We help you to develop your creativity individually, with an interdisciplinary approach and practical focus, allowing you to make a real impact on what you are doing. And that means worldwide. These four guiding principles form the basis for our actions in this regard:
There are no boundaries to creativity. We believe that the best prerequisites for personal and creative growth come from being open to new things, having the courage to think differently, and being prepared to look beyond the immediate horizon.
At UE, we invite you to experiment, strike out in new directions, and find inspiration everywhere in the world through an interdisciplinary study course that offers many options to choose from among other UE study programs, with integrated semesters and excursions abroad, international internship projects, and collaboration with like-minded professors and students from all over the world.
We help you recognize your strengths and develop your capabilities to find your dream job later – by working closely with experienced professors from the real world in a trust-based study atmosphere that offers you an environment for your personal development.
Creative design and hands-on learning have a unique role here at UE. Our mission is to offer you a course of clear relevance to your later professional needs and support you with exciting projects. We give you space to try out different directions and find your way, whether with the aid of an interdisciplinary choice of subjects, as part of internship projects, "project weeks," or with study-related traineeships because each of us grows along with our experiences!
We believe that a team is more than the sum of its members. Often, the best ideas emerge from the creative exchange. Here at UE, we bring together professors, students, and partners in cooperation from some 50 nations, each with their talents and expertise.
This creates an exceptional learning environment in which you exchange views, mutually inspire each other, and also encourage each other to think as entrepreneurs, as when planning joint exhibitions and conferences or as part of global internship projects in which you develop creative solutions and give food for thought to clients from industry and the world of art and culture. And many of the connections made here at UE endure long after your studies are over.
On the teaching side also, you profit from exchange within a team because of the close cooperation of UE with partners and well-known universities within and outside the Laureate Network in the development of program content and teaching formats that have relevance for the future, such as lectures that span both national borders and continents.
Science and research are an essential element of modern cultures. They analyze, assess, and form the basis for our being and our social order conditions. This is especially true for the evolution of current media technologies, which has resulted in a new interaction between work, life, and communication, but that has also become a challenge for our understanding of the world.
UE is reacting to these changes by also supporting research projects, in addition to offering courses. These projects can be theoretical and conceptual or artistic and design-based. Their approaches encompass both historical and contemporary sets of problems in equal measure. Since 2014, this work has been coordinated by the Institute for Design Research (IF) at UE. In addition to supporting projects and quality assurance, this institute has become a place where research topics are freely discussed, and experiments are conducted. The mutual premise is the awareness that the creation, transfer, and use of social infrastructures is always a design question. Design strategies often provide the decisive impulses today for the renewal of or changes in interactions within society.
The research projects at UE are built on an interdisciplinary foundation. On the one hand, due to the change in the importance of design, the number of career fields has risen for designers, who increasingly have to work in development teams beyond applications or services. On the other hand, it is necessary to tie in theoretical disciplines, which allow the knowledge to take on the material and operative dimensions.
The research results are integrated into UE's courses on offer. Furthermore, they are published as a single book in a series and thus promote discussion. In this way, UE is also facing its responsibility towards a dynamic society that is open to the future.

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