The series of successful city lectures at Hof University of Applied Sciences will continue and will now be dedicated to the topic of care on May 6, 2025 from 5.30-7.00 pm (student café “Zur Auszeit”). In the lecture by Prof. Dr. Dietmar Wolff, the current challenges in care, demographic development, shortage of skilled workers and a flood of legislation will be discussed.
Dietmar Wolff, who is also head of the Innovative Healthcare research group, will also highlight practicable solutions through new forms of care, reorganization of work and digitalization. His focus is both on what is currently feasible and on the distant future that will affect us all.
In his research, Wolff has dedicated himself to digitalization technologies in the healthcare and social economy. He is researching changes in the social working world and the new challenges of keeping employees healthy. In the pulsnetz MuTiG project, for example, TruDi, the digitalization truck, has been touring various federal states for three years, organizing workshops for specialists and managers from the healthcare and social services sector. They can try out the digital technologies that TruDi has on board at first hand and develop ideas for their use.
University comes to the city
For several years now, Hof University of Applied Sciences has been tasked with having an impact on society as part of its “third mission”. This third pillar stands directly alongside the other two, namely teaching and research. “Particularly in today’s increasingly flattening and brutalizing public debate, we as a university want to bring complex and reflective ideas back to the public,” says Prof. Dr. Valentin Plenk, Vice President for Research and Development. The aim is to show that a serious, scientific discourse does not necessarily have to be boring and incomprehensible. The first two series of the City Lecture have shown that this is indeed possible, says Plenk.
The free event is explicitly aimed at the citizens of the city of Hof and the surrounding districts. The venue is the student café “Zur Auszeit” in Hof’s Karolinenstraße.
A maximum of 60 people can take part; the order of registration applies. The event is free of charge, drinks and snacks are self-pay.
Registration is now open here: https://tinyurl.com/2afwyksz
