Jade University of Applied Sciences of Wilhelmshaven /Oldenburg/Elsfleth

Oldenburg, Germany
www.fh-oow.de

Jade University of Applied Sciences Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth was founded in 2009, when the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven, which was founded in January 2000 (when the three formerly independent Universities of Applied Sciences in the north-west of Germany merged) was split into two universities. With close to 10,000 students, it is the largest university of applied sciences in Lower Saxony.

As is typical for universities of this type, the Jade UAS focuses on hands-on studies, and students work on concrete, practical tasks within a scientific context. A special feature of the Jade UAS is an unusually broad range of courses on offer, with more than 60 future-oriented courses in engineering and natural sciences, economics, architecture, construction, geo-information and shipping. The Jade UAS is part of a large international network of universities that offers good opportunities for students to carry out part of their studies abroad.

UAS Oldenburg is supporting the city of Osterholz-Scharmbeck to set-up a pilot eGovernment project as part of the Smart Cities Project. It is intended to create online processes and services that citizens can access via the city’s internet portal. The first processes to be implemented will provide the foundations to enable the city to provide a working and secure system to at least partially execute administrative processes online. The technical research needed to deliver this is ongoing and the list of processes to be implemented is continually being revised.

By the end of the project the city of Osterholz-Scharmbeck is aiming to allow citizens to apply for passports and ID-cards, request affidavits, pay parking/speeding tickets, apply for marriage licenses, register house moves and access job-market information online. The city is aiming to develop an active and useable prototype of the first eGovernment processes by the middle of 2010.