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Interview with Sook-Jung Dofel, director of the Academy

Learning Worldwide: Discover the new Academy

International cooperation is your calling and your goal is to make a future worth living in. 

Informative: Our Training Courses

The world is changing. Do you want to help shape the changes? On our training courses, you can learn what you need in international cooperation.

: Preparing for Assignments Abroad

It all begins in the mind. Before you board the aircraft, we will give you the best preparation for your assignment in a new country.

Flexible and individual: Our Tailored Courses

Do you want individual learning solutions and advice? We develop our learning opportunities to fit your objectives and needs. 

German-Thai continuing professional development programme: New knowledge geared to the expansion of renewable energy

Project manager Pedro Pacheco from GIZ’s Academy for International Cooperation explains the background to this extraordinary programme.

Digital transformation and learning

Interview with Sook-Jung Dofel, director of the Academy

Security Abroad

Assignments in other countries are sometimes associated with increased risk and emotional stress. Our security training gives you the best possible preparation for such situations.

Intercultural Competence

Showing respect and dignity in intercultural contexts is the key to success in international cooperation. Respectful cooperation creates the best basis for projects initiated in partnership to achieve a lasting impact. In order to acquire – or maintain – an open attitude towards people from different backgrounds, it is useful to have one skillset that can be learned: intercultural competence.

What is special about the Academy and how does it work?

Digital. Practical. Individual. Learning with the Academy

TVET ACADEMY – Competencies for TVET

Vocational training plays a key role for the sustainable development of industry, society and the environment in developing countries, threshold countries and industrialised nations. The TVET Academy supports the development of skills for specialists and managers in the area of vocational training at a variety of different levels.

Digital learning

You can learn when and where you want with digital learning opportunities. At the AIZ you can also learn how to be safe in the digital world. 

Facts and Figures

...attend training courses at the Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ) every year. 

...recommend the Academy's training to others as preparation for assignments abroad. 

...can be learned at the Academy. Alongside English, French and Spanish, the AIZ offers German as a foreign language and over 70 other languages from Afrikaans to Zulu.

...are received each year by the Academy. The results flow into the programme development and the organisation of courses.

...you can look for information by browsing through our Media and Information Centre (MIA). You can do research with books and e-books, journals and e-journals, DVDs, audio CDs and plenty of other media.

...the AIZ prepares field staff for assignments and provides country-specific information.

'Teaching is my dream job.'

Mongolia: Sandag Bataa talks about the challenges he faces as a teacher in a vocational school and how skills-development measures have helped improve the learning environment, the motivation to learn and know-how. 

'Think on your feet, act smart.'

Turkmenistan: Mathias Wangler took a course in security at the AIZ. The training not only made him more aware of possible dangers, it also helped him build up his inner strength. 

'Criticism improved my writing style'

Bangkok: Putri Maha Lima is a director at a regional parliament in Indonesia. In order to improve her skills in writing publicity texts, she took the course 'Project Proposal Writing with LogFrame'.