Cooperation opportunities with students: Internships, practical projects, theses and more.

Students at Business School Pforzheim have a lot to offer: a wide variety of skills, a broad range of expertise, and new perspectives that can be of great value to companies. We believe that close collaboration is mutually beneficial and therefore offer a variety of opportunities to introduce our students to companies in a hands-on approach.

These include

• Internships and working student jobs,
• field trips,
• hands-on projects,
• theses,
• scholarships and awards.

Internships and working student positions

A mandatory part of the Bachelor's program at the Business School Pforzheim is an internship semester, which is usually completed as part of the 5th academic semester. This mandatory internship, which is integrated into the curriculum, consists of 100 working days (20 weeks) and is designed to provide students with practical experience and knowledge to complement academic content. The practical study semester should have a connection to the study program chosen by the students and give them an understanding of the processes and structures of a company or other practical workplaces. The practical semester is accompanied by lectures at the university. Interested companies can offer internships in several Bachelor's degree programs each semester.

Our students are keen to gain practical experience in addition to their required internship. This is why a large number of them take the opportunity to complete further internships during the lecture-free period (usually mid-July - end of September and mid-February - mid-March). In addition, a large number of students would like to work alongside their studies and pursue a working student job. Interested companies can offer internships and working student jobs in all study programs, a preparation period of three 3 months is required.

Please feel free to contact the Career Center with your offers.

Field trips

Student groups visit companies and organizations on field trips to work on specific research topics. Workshops on specific topics involve defining tasks in advance and recruiting appropriate student teams. Due to the curriculum, we require a semester's advance notice in order to integrate field trips or theme workshops into the lecture schedule.

Practical projects

Over the course of the 6th semester of a Bachelor's study program, student groups of up to 20 people spend the entire semester working on a topic assigned by a company or organization under professorial supervision in the form of a project paper or a focus seminar. The results are usually conceptions, profitability studies or similar, which are presented and made available to the clients. Interested companies can submit topics for most Bachelor's study programs each semester. As a rule, we require one semester's advance notice. Please do not hesitate to contact the Deans of Academic Affairs of the respective study programs if you are interested.

Theses

Students may write their thesis on relevant topics in their field of study in cooperation with a company and thus contribute to the further development of knowledge and research. The thesis usually completes the Bachelor's or Master's degree. Many students write their thesis as a hands-on paper in a company; in this case, students and the company enter into a contract for the thesis. The topic area and content issues of the thesis are determined together with the thesis supervisors at the university, i.e. the supervising professors, who also act as first examiners. A thesis in the Bachelor's and Master's study programs is usually completed within three to four months.

As a rule, the thesis is to be published as a scientific work, which is done by placing the completed thesis in the library. In the case of practical theses that are written in cooperation with companies, a so-called non-disclosure note can be applied for if there are confidentiality interests. Normally this non-disclosure note is limited to a period of time (3 or 5 years), however, in special cases an unlimited non-disclosure note (no publication in the library) can be granted.

Interested companies can offer topics for theses in all Bachelor's and Master's programs each semester, which will be processed on an academic level. In this case, please contact the Career Center.

Scholarships and sponsorship awards

Companies and organizations can award scholarships through their own foundations or contribute financially through programs such as the Deutschlandstipendium or the Demokratisches Stipendium in order to support talented students who have to finance their studies themselves and often do not receive BAföG support.

Support promising talent with scholarships and awards to further their academic and professional development. By supporting a scholarship recipient, sponsors often find promising talent for their company.

As part of the so-called prize season at Business School Pforzheim, sponsorship prizes are awarded to outstanding students each summer semester.

The following companies are currently represented as prize sponsors:

• AEB GmbH
• Aktivbank
• CONNECT Personal-Service
• ec4u
• Ernst & Young
• Jung von Matt
• Lawyers Ladenburger
• Robert Bosch GmbH

During the summer semester, Pforzheim University also awards prizes to Pforzheim students from all three of our schools for their above-average academic achievements. We are happy to accept new prize donors for both award ceremonies!

Please refer to the Pforzheim University website for further sponsorship opportunities.

Providing Perspectives: Endowed professorships as a link between business and science

Business and academia benefit equally from an endowed professorship: The additional professorship can be used to develop new, promising subject areas for which no public funding is available. The benefactor is given the opportunity to make an important contribution to the further development of research in areas that are relevant to him or her. In addition, he can specifically promote the training of highly qualified junior staff and recruit young talent at an early stage. He or she can contribute his or her ideas to the design of the professorship, participate in the naming of the professorship, and thus anchor what he or she considers to be important topics at the university. With his support, he enables Business School Pforzheim to set new accents in teaching and research, to significantly deepen its areas of expertise or even to develop new ones, and thus to further sharpen its national and international profile. This creates a win-win situation for both partners.

If you would like to use the potential of Pforzheim University and generate innovations, we would be pleased to hear from you. We would be happy to discuss with you the opportunities and possibilities that an endowed professorship can offer you.

Career planning starts as early as during the course of studies

The Career Center at Pforzheim University provides students with a sound professional orientation, improves their key qualifications, promotes their professionalism in career planning and in the application process, and intensifies their networking skills.

For companies, the Career Center is a central point of contact not only in the search for junior staff, but also for other projects in cooperation with the university. The close connection between university and practice supports graduates in the transition from study to work and improves their prospects of finding a job that matches their qualifications and personality.

Various offers of the Career Center are realized in cooperation with partners both within the university and externally.

Contact: careercenter(at)hs-pforzheim(dot)de

In 2011, auditing companies and professors at Business School Pforzheim joined forces to form the Pforzheim Forum Taxes and Auditing e.V. in order to promote the Master's degree programs "Auditing and Taxation" and "Auditing, Business and Law" offered at Business School Pforzheim.

Our objective is the support of students and interested parties of both Master's programs. In cooperation with Business School Pforzheim, we award German scholarships to students of both programs. In addition, we improve the integration of hands-on work in auditing and tax consulting by offering internships as well as part-time employment contracts before and during the Master's degree program. In addition, students are offered courses to prepare them for their examinations and to support them on their way to their final exams.