The ASG Team
Directors and Central Office
About us
The Adenauer School of Government (ASG) will combine cutting-edge research with innovative teaching. The School is made possible by generous long-term funding from the Alfred Landecker Foundation.
The ASG's objective is to establish itself as a nonpartisan research and education center for public governance. The ASG sees itself as a place for scientific debate on the challenges of good governance in times of fundamental global change.
Following the model of government schools in English-speaking countries, the ASG combines cutting-edge, international research with innovative teaching methods and benefits from Cologne's strategic location in the heart of Europe. It will provide decision-makers with an excellent academic education, which is both interdisciplinary and practice-oriented in nature. To this end, the ASG is developing modern learning concepts and attracting leading scholars from Germany and abroad.
Parallel to its institutional establishment, the ASG is developing dialogue formats for engaging with society and politics. Through adopting this approach, the ASG aims to generate innovative responses to social, economic, and political challenges in research, teaching, and in relation to the third mission over the coming years.
Why "Adenauer" School?
As the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer was one of the architects of post-war European integration, maintaining strong ties with the West. As Mayor of Cologne, he played a key role in re-establishing the University of Cologne.
„Konrad Adenauer hat mit seinem klugen und mutigen Regierungshandeln die Stadt Köln und Deutschland geprägt wie kein Zweiter. Gerade in Zeiten des Umbruchs, wie wir sie aktuell erleben, brauchen wir Forschung und Lehre in Public Policy, Governance und Verwaltungswissenschaften, die über den Tellerrand der einzelnen Disziplin hinausblicken.
Mein großer Dank gilt der Alfred Landecker Foundation, die die besonderen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit erkannt hat und sich mit großem Einsatz für eine exzellente Ausbildung von Führungskräften im öffentlichen Bereich engagiert. Die Adenauer School of Government erfüllt alle Voraussetzungen, ein neues Aushängeschild für den Wissenschaftsstandort Nordrhein-Westfalen zu werden.“
– Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia