Team

Ines Kaffee

is employed as a management consultant for large industrial concerns in the car and metalworking industries. In this role, she is responsible for identifying the in-house training needs of industrial plants. Her focus is to design programmes especially for the blue-collar workplace at those plants. Ines’ responsibilities lie in extending the didactic and methodical aspects of the course; in conducting the actual training and in evaluating the whole process.

To expand plants in China, India and in some countries of Africa expand it is difficult to recruit experienced, qualified employees with the right level of skill in each technical field. As such, there are no educational traditions like those known in the German-Dual-System; rather the education provided in these countries is more theoretical than practical based. Responding to this need, Ines has developed an education-concept which allows a company to provide quality training and certification relating to the specific needs of the individual plants.

Ines’ experience as a training provider and educator is extensive. She founded an independent German Language School in Greece and has facilitated learning for young people and adults in Germany and overseas.

Jinping Shen
originates from Shanghai and now lives in Berlin. Her studies in Shanghai and Bayreuth have included Intercultural German and Sociology.

In addition to working at the Confucius Institute of the Freie Universität von Berlin, Jinping is also employed by renowned industrial businesses as both interpreter and trainer. In terms of her work with executive managers, who are to be deployed in China and Germany, her role is to facilitate language learning and cultural awareness.

Jinping has worked for a considerable number of years at the International Communication and Foreign Cultural Exchange in Bayreuth and has gained valuable experience on the summer programme as a teacher of German for prospective Asian Erasmus students.

In Shanghai, Jinping worked as a radio announcer for the German Programme at Radio Shanghai and as a lecturer at the Shanghai International Studies University. Her published works include “Broadcasting – a Basic German Course” for Radio Shanghai and a novel written in German, entitled “Shanghai Dream”.

Kihmie Engedal
is a science consultant at LIGADUR.

Her professional relationship and collaborations with Ines stem from a friendship which has spanned over two decades. Kihmie has taken her inspiration from issues surrounding German as a Foreign Language in Denmark, Greece and Germany.

Kihmie is Danish and has been teaching German for 25 years. She studied both German and Mathematics at the Pedagogic University in Kolding.

She is bilingual in German and Danish, and it is her love of German, the Country and its people that have encouraged her to make Berlin her second home for many years.