Developing Tomorrow’s Skills
Our innovative and richly diverse continuing education programme is much acclaimed beyond the confines of our discipline. The FHNW School of Social Work offers a range of science-based and applied professional development courses closely linked with the insights and experiences of professional practice.
These courses include the state-certified Master of Advanced Studies MAS, Diploma of Advanced Studies DAS, Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS, as well as specialist seminars and symposia on various key issues:
- Children and Youths
- Consulting and Coaching
- Disability and Integration
- Ethics
- Health
- Law
- Methods
- Migration
- Research
- Social Work Field Instructors
- Social Management
Within the European higher education framework, the FHNW School of Social Work also offers a Joint Master’s degree in cooperation with various German-speaking universities.
Our continuing education courses are aimed at a broad specialist audience – social work professionals, specialists from other fields active in social work, and professionals from other disciplines seeking to develop social work knowledge, skills, and methods in our proven areas of expertise.
We will be pleased to send you our Continuing Education Guide.
Please call us on (0)848 821 011 to order a copy.
Download a PDF version of our current Continuing Education Guide.
We also provide tailored professional development courses, delivered in-house and especially designed to address your specific needs and questions.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further advice.
Continuing Education Contacts
Prof. Agnès Fritze
T +41 62 311 96 56
E-Mail: weiterbildung.sozialearbeit@fhnw.ch
Continuing Education Office, Olten
Riggenbachstrasse 16
4600 Olten
T +41 62 311 96 90 / Fax +41 62 311 96 41
Continuing Education Office, Basel
Thiersteinerallee 57
4053 Basel
T +41 61 337 27 24 / Fax +41 62 337 27 95
Continuing education students should go to their extranet for relevant study guidelines and useful further information on their programmes at the FHNW School of Social Work.

