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Time logging, accounting or material administration – to mention only a few areas, where Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be of use for craft trades. It can help to save time and costs, especially for tasks, which are not really part of the core competences. In November, the afh offers a series of four free of charge online seminars for hearing aid businesses in order to present them with chances and key features of AI technologies and facilitate the access. You can still register. The first seminar will be held on November 09, 2022, however, it is also possible to join for a later date. To register, please send a mail to: f.hahn@afh-luebeck.de

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The afh will soon be the first educational institution in all of Germany to use state-of-the-art ear simulators in the training and further education. On October 10, 2022, a team of AHEAD Simulations from Canada visited the afh and was available for questions.

On September 10, 2022 the Hearing Acoustic craft held another big graduation event, honoring approx. 2,500 journeymen/women, who have completed their examinations between 2020 and 2022. Due to the pandemic, their graduation ceremony could only take place online. In the Lübeck event location „Strandsalon“, they now had the opportunity to celebrate properly. With this unique event, the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians, wanted to express their appreciation for the young professionals.

For more quality of life, sustainability and less street noise – Campus hearing Acoustics joins the City Cycling STADTRADELN Lübeck initiative again with its own team this year. From September 3 to 23, the team pedals to promote climate protection. No matter if only for a short distance or steadily throughout the entire period, anybody who wants to join is most welcome. Simply register at www.stadtradeln.de/luebeck for the team Campus Hearing Acoustics. Each kilometer by bike counts!

The Campus Hearing Acoustics is an important economic factor for the city of Lübeck. Hence a media team of Lübeck’s Office for Economic Development (Wirtschaftsförderung Lübeck) dropped by for a visit in August, to report on their website and social media channels about Germany’s central vocational training facilities in the hearing acoustics branch and the world’s biggest center for continued education in this field, right here in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

“International Summer Academy“ (ISA) at the Academy of Hearing Acoustics in Lübeck for improving their skills and sharing knowledge. Advanced training courses in English for an international group of participants have been taking place at the “Campus Hearing Acoustics” for 13 years. Another advanced training course for international professionals is planned at afh in autumn.

„You are the future of our trade“, said biha President Marianne Frickel to the new journeymen and women during the traditional ceremony for the successful completion of their vocational training on July 09, 2022 and congratulated them on their journeyman/woman certificates. 689 apprentices from all over Germany have completed their 3-year vocational training in their companies and passed the journeyman/woman exam at the Campus Hearing Acoustics this summer. Due to the ongoing pandemic, their graduation ceremony took place as an online event.

The afh workshops during the 8th Arab Hearing Health Conference organized by the Advanced Arab Academy of Audiovestibulogy (AAAA) in Amman, Kingdom of Jordan, were met with great interest. ENT specialists, audiologists and experts in the field of rehabilitation of hearing impairments from the entire Arab region got together for this expert conference held from May 12 to 14, 2022, for training and continued education.  

There is a global demand for the expertise provided by the Campus Hearing Acoustics. In order to intensify the bilateral transfer of knowledge in the field of professional training, the Federal Guild of Hearing Aid Acousticians has concluded a partnership agreement with the highest committee responsible for the education of medical skilled workers in Egypt, the Supreme Council of University Hospitals in Egypt, in May. Train-the-Trainer classes of afh lecturers are planned as online sessions and on-site courses in Cairo.