Extra-occupational certificate courses

The Professional School is currently planning a more diversified offering of continuing education certificates.

We already have the following English language programmes of study in place for you

• Arts & Cultural Consumption and Audiences (distance-learning)
• Arts & Cultural Production and Cultural Organisations (distance-learning)
• Developing Cultural Organisations (distance-learning)
• Human Rights (distance-learning)
• International Contract Administration Engineer
• International Cultural Management in Transition (distance-learning)
• Practices of Sustainable Chemistry (distance-learning)
• Sustainability Reporting and Accounting (distance learning)
• Sustainable Chemistry and Benign by Design
• Sustainable Chemistry and Regulatory Affairs

In addition, you will find the following German language courses in our offer

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Building Law and Planning Management
• Circular Economy
• Construction Project Management Master Class
• Corporate Law
• Current Tax Law
• Data Analytics
• Decarbonisation Management
• Digital Entrepreneurship
• Digital Ethics
• Digital Health
• Digital Transformation
• Disruptions to the Construction Process and Contract Amendments
• EdTech Product Management
• Environmental Law
• Human Resource Management
• Innovation Management
• Introductory Course in Social Work
• Law of the Energy Transition
• Lean Construction Expert according to VDI 2553
• Negotiation and Conflict Management in Construction Projects
• Personal Performance Management
• Production Management in industry 4.0
• Sustainability Assurance
• Sustainability Management in Sport and Sports Organisations
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management

The professional certificate course can lead to a university certificate from Leuphana University of Lüneburg. A university certificate confirms that you have attended a continuing education course and certifies that you have acquired expertise at a university level. As universities, unlike other continuing education providers, are authorised to award credit points, a university certificate is also proof of the credit points obtained. ECTS credits are internationally recognised. Leuphana university certificates are therefore trusted and widely accepted and will generally be recognised by businesses and other institutions.

You can, for example, have your points counted towards a related degree programme in future to reduce your workload, or use them to make up your CP shortfall for a Masters at the Professional School. A professional certificate course can also be a useful option if you are considering taking a professional degree programme: you can test whether studying alongside work is right for you without making a long commitment – the certificate course is much shorter than a degree. At the same time, the university certificate can serve as evidence of your qualifications for potential employers.

On some certificate courses, you can opt out of assessments and will then receive an certificate of attendance. In this case, you are not awarded credit points, but this option allows you to reduce the workload for your course. 

Certificate courses are used to implement the structural and qualitative recommendations of the German Society for Continuing Education and Distance Learning for continuing education formats. Certificate studies consist of modules from accredited Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes, but are not fully-fledged degree programmes.