The German Association of Corporate Consultants is the trade and professional association of management and personnel consulting based in Berlin, Bonn and Brussels. It is internationally connected with other organizations and stands for trust and safety. The members of BDU communicate in networks and work on focus topics in vertical unions and regional working committees.

The AGP is the only association in Germany that pleads for a cooperative management with employee involvement. The basis of the association’s practice is the conviction of the fact that the company, the shareholders and the employees equally benefit from such a lived partnership.

Insolvency proceedings include a variety of creditor groups as well as a series of further participants. Since 1998, the Working Committee on Insolvency Law of Berlin/Brandenburg is a panel that brings together those different groups separately and collectively. Thus, problems that occur during insolvency proceedings can be discussed by the involved parties. Some problems can be solved from the outset through coordination within this circle.

The association, founded in 1949 and nowadays consisting of almost 600 members, is probably one of the oldest and biggest of its kind in Germany. A membership in the Working Committee on Insolvency Law of Cologne allows a regular exchange with judges, judicial officers, college professors, insolvency administrators and all further professional categories that are engaged in the field of insolvency.

Spatial research and regional planning addresses spatial-related sciences in Germany and abroad but it also applies to politics, practice and the interested public with scientific contributions and reports from research and practice and competent comments on important new publications in Germany and abroad. In the sense of an international scientific exchange the journal publishes English contributions as well.

On the campus of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the academy realizes a wide range of interdisciplinary educational programs and advisory service. It systematically combines competences of different departments and is thus a partner during the realization of a complex and multilayered selection of topics. The close cooperation with education and research at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum provides the ideal conditions to integrate into the continuing education market with profiled programs.

A membership in the Association of Friends of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum offers a comfortable and advantageous possibility to support the university. In the past, the GDF has among other things granted subsidies for excursions to students and has supported young scientist with graduation awards as well as it has facilitated building measures at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Furthermore, a membership offers many opportunities to stay up to date with the development of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum through a constant contact with scientists, students and other friends of the university.

The GFS understands structural change not only as an economic but also as a social and cultural development process in the company and in the region. The society supports and demands activities that help to cope with the multifaceted transformation processes in the region and offers a forum for the dialogue between science and practice.

The Association for Structural Policy is a forum for the exchange of experience and the counseling by practitioners. It is the aim of the society to discuss current topics in a regional dimension and to encourage content and process-related potentials for improvement in exchange with decision makers, scientists and practitioners. To this, pertinent experience, scientific knowledge as well as best-practice-examples shall be collected, analyzed and reprocessed.