Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences

The Upper Lusatian "six city federation" was in the Middle Ages one of the most important city federations of Europe. The Görlitzer Jakob Böhme began at the end of the 16th century as the first philosopher to publish his writings in German. 100 years later, Christian Weise introduced school comedies in Zittau, taking new paths in humanistic education throughout Europe.

• We offer a scientifically grounded academic education ensuring a successful start into professional life and a sustained, ongoing professional development.

• We offer further education in academic and scientific fields, so enabling the systematic, lifelong acquisition of knowledge and enlarging the stock of knowledge in the fields of technology, economics and business, and society.

Thanks to our several decades of teaching and research input in the energy sector, the urgently topical issue of 'Energy and the Environment' has become one of our major and significant areas of expertise. The range of our research, however, is far broader, including also the investigation of processes of social and societal change in the present and future.