Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the Dortmund West highway junction, where the A45 Sauerland highway crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to Campus South, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 to Campus North. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

The H-Bahn is one of the landmarks of TU Dortmund University. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 runs every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this route in two minutes.

By airplane

From Dortmund Airport, you can take the AirportExpress to Dortmund Central Station in just over 20 minutes and from there take the S-Bahn to the university. Düsseldorf Airport, around 60 kilometers away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by the S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the Dortmund West highway junction, where the A45 Sauerland highway crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to Campus South, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 to Campus North. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association, and DSW21 also offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

The H-Bahn is one of the landmarks of TU Dortmund University. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 runs every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this route in two minutes.

By airplane

From Dortmund Airport, you can take the AirportExpress to Dortmund Central Station in just over 20 minutes and from there take the S-Bahn to the university. Düsseldorf Airport, around 60 kilometers away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by the S-Bahn from the university station.

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Contribution of the department at an interdisciplinary conference on vocational training for people with disabilities

10/15/2025

Christoph Burzlaff stands at a podium in front of a presentation projected onto the wall. The title of the presentation is displayed: “Ready for the future? - The development of vocational training centers in the context of current transformation processes.”

Christoph Burzlaff represented the department at an interdisciplinary conference on the history of vocational training for people with disabilities since the First World War at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

Under the title "Ready for the future? - The development of vocational training centers in the context of current transformation processes", Christoph Burzlaff presented his findings on the development of vocational rehabilitation measures in vocational training centers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel at the end of September. The paper focused specifically on the institutional management of comprehensive transformation processes in these institutions, discussing the state of research from the 1950s onwards in Germany. The results show that, for the past eight decades, vocational training centers have been caught between the conflicting priorities of socio-political, economic and institutional change processes, which the institutions have countered with comprehensive structural adjustments. Particularly against the backdrop of an increase in transformation processes with regard to the theoretical construct of the polycrisis, it is nevertheless clear that the past decade has been associated with particular challenges for vocational training centres (digitalization, Covid-19 pandemic, labour market developments).

The different perspectives of the other participants also highlighted historical (dis)continuities from the Weimar Republic to the post-war period and the current status quo of vocational rehabilitation and vocational training for people with disabilities. This was linked to fruitful discussions in an interdisciplinary format, whereby both historical and rehabilitation/educational science perspectives could be discussed within a European framework. Many thanks to Erik Kömpe and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Lingelbach for the invitation to this stimulating exchange between different professions, which could lead to a more in-depth discussion in the future.