KWB - Koordinierungsstelle Weiterbildung und Beschäftigung e. V.
Coordination Office for Further Training and Employment - House of Commerce
Key competencies
Utilisation and improvement of existing qualification potentials on a European and regional level
Corporate Profile
Coordination Center for Education and Employment
As a professional provider in the field of continuing education and training KWB is dedicated to improve and enhance skills of today's workforce with a vast range of educational services. Our main goal is to permanently increase the employment rate and provide the job market with highly qualified and trained employees.
Founded in 1990 by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, employer associations, labor unions and the Workforce Development Agency, KWB continually expanded to a leading specialist managing complex activities in many countries together with global partners in Europe, Asia and the USA.
KWB transmits the expertise in "Training - Made in Germany" to all stakeholders in the field of educational policy and the educational system.
With our online distance learning college TLA we provide innovative hybrid learning courses which blend face-to-face classroom learning with online studies.
We offer:
Project Development & Management
- Formation of accredited educational institutions, such as vocational colleges and schools in various industries (e.g. logistics, ict, media, fashion & design, travel & tourism)
- Managing public private partnerships to establish a regional infrastructure for life-long-learning
- Managing European support programs, e.g. European Social Fund
Consulting & Educational Services
- Direct placement programs for various target groups such as graduates, mothers, young migrants, semi-skilled and elderly employees
- Workforce recruiting and development tools
- Organization of conferences, education fairs, internship exchange programs
- Empirical research
Certificate/Diploma Programs
- Production and delivery of high quality vocational and career training tailored to the needs of your company, country or region
- Placement Package (4 + 8): 4 month brush up on practical skills + 8 month job assignment for any vocational subject
- Train the trainer
- Blended learning solutions
Web content available in:
- English
- German
Industry sectors
- Teaching and Education
- Government
- Commercial Sector
- IT/Technology/Media
Products & services
- Consultancy Services
- Further Training
- Train the Trainer
- Vocational Training
Services are already offered in
- Viet Nam
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- Ireland
- Greece
- France
- Czech Republic
- China
Services can be offered in the following languages
- Vietnamese
- Spanish
- Russian
- Polish
- Italian
- German
- English
- Chinese
Internationally known certifications/memberships
Certifications
- Certified acc. to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015
by TÜV NORD CERT GmbH
Memberships
- BVDW - German Association of Digital Economy
- ELIG
- EMA - Euro-Mediterranean-Arab Association
- Hamburg@work
- Hamburg Further Training (registered society)
- Logistics Initiative Hamburg
- OAV - German Asia-Pacific Business Association
- UVNord - Confederation of Businss Associations of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (registered society)
Cooperation partners abroad
- China, SEMC, Shanghai
- China, Ningbo Education Bureau, Ningbo
- China, Zhejiang Foreign Service Corporation (ZFSC), Hangzhou
- Greece, KEK GSVEVEE, Athen, Ireland, SIPTU
- United Kingdom, SLIM/Marchmont Observatory, University of Exeter
- Canada, D2L
- USA, Class for Zoom
- Vietnam, ITC Information Technology College, Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam, People's Council of Hai Phong, Hai Phong
Target groups
- Companies,
- public administration,
- specialists and
- executives.