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The Real Estate Management Master's program offers further education training in accordance with § 26 of the legislation governing higher education for Berlin, which in accordance with § 22 BerlHG as part-time study alongside a vocational activity. The course lasts 4 semesters equivalent to 1 year of full-time study.
The range of topics covered in the course revolve around the life cycle of structural-areal projects and go from site selection, through the project development to the boundaries of facility management.
From this follows an interdisciplinary, integrated approach and activity orientation. The reference framework of the course is the concept of sustainability and the three elements: economics, ecology and socio-cultural contexts. The course is thus also a contribution to the realization of agenda 21 in urban development.
The Real Estate Management Master's program is aimed at part-time study for those in work and - in some cases - those starting work with a university degree or college of higher education qualification in architecture, town and regional planning and civil engineering. Also accepted are graduates of law, business studies, economics, industrial engineering and geography; plus, in line with § 26 BerlHG, individuals who have obtained the relevant qualification through work or an alternative way.
Instruction will be in various forms: lectures, seminars, exercises and integrated projects. The integrated projects form the backbone of the study: based on real cases from location and project development interdisciplinary problem-solving teams will be put together. Project work will entail site viewings (excursions), inquiry sessions, moderated group discussions, teamwork, and study and mediation workshops; which is geared towards gaining professional experience through study while training your social skills at the same time.
The Real Estate Management Master's program is divided into a 3-semester study period, along with a concluding 4th semester, in which the Master's thesis is put together. Teaching will be in the form of lectures, seminars, exercises and integrated meetings.
As part of the activity orientation of the course, the development and/or improvement of social skills, and the gaining and practice of "skills" with their relevant techniques: moderation, mediation, presentation.
The experience of the private sector - both local and national - is linked to the course by the participation of proven specialists as lecturers as well as the integrated projects and the final piece of work (Master's thesis). These take up the principle questions and tasks set from experience.
The course consciously refers contentwise to the Berlin/Brandenburg area and benefits existing projects and tasks in the region.
A specific section of the course is linked to the research fields of the University of Technology: the course contents are fed back to the relevant area of research, the integrated projects and the final work (Master's thesis) will be used for academic work dealing with practice-relevant questions. Through this, the course contributes substantially to the continuous development of a research pool in the field of location development, project development and real estate management.
International standards will be adhered to through the treatment of and choice of topics. These will have both an international dimension (methods, research topics, nation-specific interpretations, approach). Special attention will be paid on the one hand to the EU and its Anglo-Saxon beginnings (incl. the USA) with regard to what is seen as "state of the art" and the financial markets and market strategies, and on the other hand the new EU member states (particularly Poland, The Czech Republic, Hungary, and The Baltic States) in view of market exploitation. This will be done in cooperation with Real Estate Institute of New York University (USA) and der Politechnika Gdanska / Gdansk University of Technology (Poland) in the form of regular workshops and trips.
The concept of the course's structure was posed in October 2001 when it was presented through Agenda 4 in newsletter no. 1 of the trade fair expo in Munich, which the expert community discussed and then received positive feedback (see press reports).
The non-profit association Agenda 4, in which considerable enterprises and institutions of the real estate and housing industry are represented, actively supports - substantially - the Real Estate Management Master's program at the TU Berlin and as already illustrated.
The German federation for housing, town construction and area planning supports the scheme of the Master's program and intends to take up it as a pilot project as part of a BMFT research project.