Below you will find a list of potential language institutes to help you choose. Once you have decided on a language institute and course offer, please send us your German course request form and we will assist you with registering for the course.

• Personnel Development covers 50% of the course costs (up to a maximum of €750.00 per person per year), provided that the remaining 50% is covered by your institute/organizational unit.

• Please discuss the 50% cost coverage with your supervisor before you are submitting your German course request form. We will forward your German course request form to your supervisor for a written confirmation of cost coverage.

• For course bookings at the WU Business Language Center, we also require the cost center of your academic/organizational unit as this is needed for billing purposes (see also point 4).

• Please note that the confirmation of cost coverage must be submitted no later than two weeks before the course starts to ensure that registration - depending on the availability of places - can be processed and paid on time.

• A new course request and cost coverage confirmation from your supervisor is required for each German course you would like to book (e.g., when booking follow-up courses), unless your supervisor directly approves the full annual amount of up to €750.00 for you in advance.

After submitting your German course request form including all details to the Personnel Development team your request will be processed and forwarded to your supervisor for a confirmation of cost coverage. You will be notified once your course request has been approved and your place in the requested German course is secured.

• Course Booking with External Language Institutes
  Bookings with external language institutes are carried out directly by WU Personnel Development on your behalf. Once the booking has been made and the course costs have been paid by Personnel Development, your place in the course is secured. From that point on, all further communication regarding course details will be handled directly between you and the language institute.

• Course Booking at the WU Business Language Center
  After cost coverage has been confirmed, you register for the desired German course yourself via the WU website >>. Please use your WU PowerNet credentials (username and password) for registration. During the registration process, select invoice as the payment method and enter the following address as the invoice recipient: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Organizational & Talent Development, Daniela Machian, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna. The WU Business Language Center will then forward the corresponding invoice to Personnel Development.

• External Language Institutes: After the course ends, 50% of the costs will be internally charged to your academic/organizational unit.

• WU Business Language Center: The WU Business Language Center issues an internal invoice to Personnel Development. By providing the cost center of your academic/organizational unit in your German course request, it will be directly charged with 50% of the course costs. No further billing by Personnel Development is necessary.

After completing your German course, you will receive a questionnaire to evaluate your course experience. Your critical feedback helps Personnel Development to continuously improve and further develop its offerings.

Since 2019, the WU Business Language Center has been offering German as a Foreign Language courses at all levels. Although the primary target group is WU students, the courses are open to everyone - enrollment at WU is not a requirement.

WU employees benefit from discounted course fees. Each course runs for half a semester (30 teaching units) and takes place in small groups of up to 20 participants directly on the WU campus.

• WU Business Language Center
  Course information: https://www.wu.ac.at/blc/kurse/deutsch-als-fremdsprache/

Based on our research and feedback from previous participants, we recommend the Internationales Kulturinstitut (IKI) for external German courses:

• Internationales Kulturinstitut (IKI)
  Course information: http://www.ikivienna.at/de/deutschkurse/

Here you can find additional providers of German courses in Vienna (listed alphabetically):

• DeutschAkademie
  Course information: http://www.deutschakademie.com/deutschkurs-wien

• DIALOG – Der Sprachcampus
  Course information: https://www.dialog-wien.at/kurse/deutschkurse/

• Eloquent Sprachinstitut
  Course information: https://www.eloquent.co.at/index.php?page=kurse

• Language Center of the University of Vienna
  Course information: https://sprachenzentrum.univie.ac.at/deutschkurse/

• World Wide Teaching – WWT
  Course information: http://www.worldwideteaching.at/deutsch.html