A growing level of professionalism in social work will be one of the big social challenges of the next few decades, and the establishment at the MCI of an FH study program for Social Work in fall 2003 was a milestone in this context. This is an exemplary program at the international level at the interface of social work and non-profit management.
To achieve the ambitious goals set for the study program, the MCI is dependent on the continuous support of various partner organizations and friends. “Social Work & Friends” is the name of the support group now being developed to provide advice and moral support for the study program. As such it reflects a sense of shared responsibility, academic acceptance and the social importance of the program.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the members of the support group (in alphabetical order):
- Mag. Dr. Michael Bielowski – General Manager Olympiaworld Innsbruck
- DSA Franz Bittersam - Lebenshilfe Tirol
- Hofrätin Dr. Waltraud Fuchs-Mair, Head of the Department of Youth and Family in the Office of the Tyrolean Regional Government (JUFF)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hartmann Hinterhuber - Institute of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Innsbruck
- Dr. Edwin Klien, former Head of the Department of Youth and Family in the Office of the Tyrolean Regional Government (JUFF)
- Prof. Dr. Christine Labonté-Roset – President of the European Association of Schools of Social Work and President of the Alice-Salomon University of Social Work and Pedagogics, Berlin
- Barbara Lochbihler - Secretary General of Amnesty International Germany
- Prof. Dr. Peter Löcherbach – President of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Department of Social Work, and Head of the Case Management Working Group at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialarbeit e.V.
- Prof. Dr. Walter Lorenz - Free University of Bozen, President of the European Centre for Community Education, Koblenz
- Fredy Mayer - President of the Austrian Red Cross, Vienna
- Dr. Lothar Müller – Head of Pastoral Work at the Innsbruck University Clinics
- Dkfm. Dr. Heinz Öhler - Director of Tiroler Gebietskrankenkasse
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka - Professor of Political Science and Nationalism Studies at the Central European University in Budapest
- Dr. Josef Probst – Member of the Board at the Confederation of Austrian Social Insurance Companies, Vienna
- Georg Schärmer – Director of Caritas for the Diocese of Innsbruck
- Dr. Manfred Scheuer – Bishop of Innsbruck
- HR Dr. Helmut Schwamberger - Head of the Health and Social Work Group in the Office of the Tyrolean Regional Government
- DI Eugen Sprenger – Deputy Mayor of Innsbruck
- Prof. Dr. Silvia Staub-Bernasconi – Chair of Social Pedagogics at TU Berlin and the High School for Social Work in Zurich, Deputy Chairperson of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialarbeit e.V.
- Dr. Wilfried Vyslozil – former Executive Director of SOS Kinderdorf Österreich
- Prof. Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt - Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Chairman of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialarbeit e.V.
- Dr. Elisabeth Zanon – former Deputy Governor of the Tyrol
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