Vision 

Teaching at University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern  enables students to further develop their personalities through the harmonised interplay of professional , methodological and personal competence in order to be able to fulfil their responsibilities in their profession and society, also in the sense of lifelong learning.

Mission 

The degree programmes at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern address clearly formulated qualification profiles that are future-oriented and geared towards the requirements of professional practice.
All members of the university work together to create an environment conducive to learning.

When selecting lecturers, the university places high demands not only on their professional expertise, but also on their personal and methodological skills. 
The teaching staff systematically and continuously coordinate the teaching content required to achieve the respective professional qualification. As part of regular dialogue with external partners from industry, their perspective is also taken into account. Teachers apply teaching and learning methods that correspond to the current state of higher education didactics and are appropriate to the situation.
Teachers aim to keep their high level of expertise up to date and to communicate it successfully.
Personal contact between teachers and students characterises the support provided to students. The university promotes this through intensive and individualised programmes.
As part of their studies, our students have the opportunity to put their skills directly into practice (via study models or distinct practical phases).
The university's educational mission is supported by a continuously developing quality management system in the areas of study and teaching. This ensures the discussion of social challenges and changed legal requirements, on the basis of which the university's own standards are defined or further developed. The result is continuity, transparency and sustainability.

Values

Teachers and students work together in a motivated manner.
The relationship between teachers and students is characterised by mutual trust.
The actions of all members of the university are characterised by mutual appreciation, tolerance and respect.

Long version

Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences sees a degree programme as a framework in which people can develop their personalities. A university degree programme helps to train responsible people for the society in which we live. Degree programmes at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences therefore teach not only subject-specific skills but also personal skills using suitable university didactic methods. After successfully completing a degree programme, graduates have appropriate professional skills and a mature personality. They are able to take on tasks in the professional world and society with motivation and self-confidence for the rest of their lives.
In order to realise this goal, the university not only sets high professional standards for its teaching staff, but also high standards for their personal and methodological skills. They pass these on through outcome-orientated teaching, but also as role models in their dealings with students and staff at the university.

The University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern is a university of applied sciences. The degree programmes address clearly formulated job profiles with long-term prospects on the labour market. Through constant exchange with professional practice, the university continuously develops its degree programmes in line with regional, national and international requirements. Teaching incorporates the latest research in the respective disciplines and uses this to develop innovative degree programmes with appropriate learning methods, or continuously develops existing degree programmes in order to be able to meet the future needs of the professional world at an early stage.
Good teaching, which leads to the achievement of the qualification objectives of a degree programme, is characterised by good cooperation between teaching staff. The lecturers of a degree programme therefore systematically and continuously coordinate the content and formats of their teaching to ensure that students build up their skills in a structured way over the course of their studies.

Teaching at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences should remain modern and innovative. Teachers are supported in maintaining their high level of professional, personal and methodological expertise. The university ensures that there is room for further professional development and offers university didactic support programmes. Teaching is designed to be skills-orientated. Traditional learning settings, such as lectures with examinations, as well as new learning settings, e.g. blended learning or the integration of multimedia tools into traditional learning arrangements, are used in an appropriate manner.
Successful teaching and the support of students in their personal development can only succeed in an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance and appreciation for one another. All members of the university are responsible for contributing to a good learning environment. The exchange between teaching staff and students is characterised by trusting personal contact and an open-door culture. Students have access to individual and intensive counselling and support services to help them find the best way to successfully complete their studies.

All of the aforementioned aspects of good teaching at the university are taken up and addressed in a continuously developing quality management system. Quality control loops ensure that all those responsible regularly scrutinise their own teaching. This takes place at four levels: module, degree programme, departments and the entire university. As a result, there is regular discussion and harmonised objectives between these levels as well as the changing social challenges and legal requirements.