Our dynamic working world increasingly demands of employers and employees a scientific and professional training. The professional life, which is interrupted by phases of personal training, with conceivable change of industry, adaptation to innovative developments and international expansion of the work space, is increasingly establishing itself as a life plan, which poses as crisis-proof alongside the traditional biographical developments, which are determined by more functional Life stages (schooling, studies, working life, retirement) and national boundaries are marked.

Dresden International University (DIU), founded in 2003, is actively involved in this development and supports modern lifestyles through scientific education. A mission of the DIU is the preparation and the sustainable establishment of its students in a global job market as well as the preservation of the innovative ability of our society regardless of the age structure.

The path to accomplishing this mission is the provision and implementation of vocational, career-break and extra-occupational education and training programs. For its traditional continuing education courses, the DIU requires a graduate, scientifically sound university degree. Through a targeted analysis of the working world, she identifies interdisciplinary tasks. It develops offers of academic further education for these tasks. Health care, production optimization, mobility management of people and goods, connection between engineering and management competences, creation of subject-oriented legal knowledge, energy production, strategies for innovation and change or communicative and cultural social projects are important examples.

The DIU sees itself as an academic institution that develops its program from the professional world. It combines the professional approach and immediate implementation of the knowledge recorded there with appropriate scientific training. With regard to recognizing new occupational fields of responsibility and their didactic implementation in a degree program, she follows so-called matching processes with companies. It sees itself as a legally independent part of the TU Dresden, which, as a university of excellence, makes the development of science the basic motive for the establishment of novel teaching opportunities.

As a "Professional University", the DIU accordingly designs courses for the following target groups:

• Graduates in management positions in Germany
• Graduates from abroad
• Professionals or apprentices with university entrance qualifications.

In addition to the scientific conception of the degree programs, the DIU also ensures that it is carried out appropriately. This is done through a system of quality assurance measures that guarantee the continuity, both in the scientific leadership and in the team of teachers from different universities, public institutions and companies about the smooth organizational process to ensure a "work-learn-life-balance". up to the module-related evaluation of all courses. A computer-aided evaluation system enables a quick reaction of the university management.

For DIU, the essential prerequisite for achieving its goals is its close connection to the Dresden University of Technology, from which it has emerged and whose training profile has been supplemented and expanded. The common goal of the cooperation of both institutions is to contribute to the creation of a regional educational space with an international dimension.