Rep. of Germany. The KFH NW was founded in 1971 and is owned by the five catholic dioceses of North Rhine - Westphalia, which are Koeln, Muenster, Aachen, Essen and Paderborn. Koeln, Aachen, Muenster, and Paderborn. The KFH NW is the biggest privately managed University for Applied Science in Germany and is, of course, state approved. As a catholic university the KFH NW is especially dedicated to the education, research, and training in the fields of social welfare and education, remedial education, religious education and nursing.
Special attention is paid to questions of youth development and marginalization, esp.
The university's activities are rooted in the mental and philosophical ideas of the catholic social teaching and theory starting at the end of the last century. There are approximately 3.400 students at the four different departments in Koeln, Aachen, Muenster, and Paderborn. The entire staff for training, teaching, and research includes more than 100 persons. Most of them are professors in the fields of education, social work, psychology, medicine, nursing, philosophy, and social management. Nine professors from the four departments are engaged there in research projects on social and psychological questions concerning alcoholism, drug addiction and familial development.