About Us

F+U China includes two offices: F+U Management & Consulting Co., Ltd. in Foshan and Dieter Academy in Shenzhen.  F+U Management & Consulting Co., Ltd. was established in 2015 on the basis of the MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding) signed between Foshan Sino-German Industrial Service Zone and F+U Education Group, and  Dieter Academy was founded in 2018 according to the agreement between F+U Education Group and the local government in China. F+U China focuses on promoting cooperation in primary and secondary education, vocational education, higher education and further education. It furthermore serves the local governments and enterprises by recommending experts, establishing contacts and finding support for possible investments.

F+U is the abbreviation of two German words: Fortbildung und Umschulung, which refer to further education and retraining respectively. The headquarter of F+U Education Group is in Heidelberg (Germany) but the Group has training centers in many German cities , like Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. The educational offers include primary-, secondary-, vocational- and higher education as well as language training and further education.

The vocational training programs of F+U were launched in the late 1970s, initially in the fields of engineering, hotels and tourism, nursing and social work, IT, trade and handicrafts, horticulture, business management, language training and so on. Later the F+U successfully extended its educational offers to general education in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors.

The cooperation with China started in 1999 and a series of programs including training the trainers, professional training, language courses, summer school, and academic programs have been instantiated.The F+U branch in China will not only deepen the cooperation between Germany and China but also provide valuable services for both the industrial and the educational sectors.