Our institutes support social work organisations and social services through analysing and searching for effective solutions to social problems. Institute staff undertake application-oriented research and development, offer a wide range of services, and deliver a wide range of attractive further education programmes designed to meet the training needs of social work professionals.
Institute for Counseling, Coaching and Social Management
The Institute for Counseling, Coaching and Social Management maintains close contact with practice – with a view to identifying and to developing new organisational models, state-of-the-art approaches to leadership, and forward-looking approaches to counseling!
Institute for Integration and Participation
Our mission at the Institute for Integration and Participation is to promote participation in social assets, values, and basic human rights.
Institute for Social Planning, Organisational Change and Urban Development
Our work focuses on social change.
Institute for Social Work and Health
We investigate social problems and their interrelations with health issues based on a robust theoretical foundation and firmly oriented toward practice.
Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services
What do the lives of children, young people, and families look like today? Where does social work with children, young people and families stand today? How can these services support children on their path to adulthood?
Institute for the Study and Development of Social Work as a Profession
The Institute for the Study and Development of Social Work as a Profession researches social work practice and contributes to its further development.
Centre for Social Work Studies
The FHNW Centre for Social Work Studies deals with all questions and concerns regarding the university’s Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Social Work.