Media | 5 February 2015 14:01

NORMA Group endows Assistant Professorship at Frankfurt School with support of the Stifterverband

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NORMA Group endows Assistant Professorship at Frankfurt School with support of the Stifterverband

Frankfurt am Main/Maintal, Germany, 5 February 2015 – NORMA Group, a global market leader in engineered joining technology, is endowing an Assistant Professorship in Manufacturing at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Initially, the endowment will cover a provisional five-year period, with an interim assessment after three years. If the outcome of the assessment is positive, the term will be extended by another three years, adding up to a total of six years. The new professorship will also be funded by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, a business community initiative advocating long-term improvement of the German education and research landscape. The association has agreed to include the Assistant Professorship in its programme. NORMA Group has been a member of the Stifterverband since 2012.

NORMA Group and Frankfurt School already have a close working relationship – senior NORMA Group executives from around the world regularly attend the General Management and High Potential programmes run by Frankfurt School. Furthermore, NORMA Group sponsors the Manufacturing Management Award for students on Frankfurt School’s Master in Management M.Sc. programme. The award was presented for the first time in autumn 2014, at the business school’s annual graduation ceremony.

“It is always a pleasure to work with Frankfurt School, not least because they have put us in touch with highly motivated, well-educated students and graduates who have later joined our company as colleagues. We also very much appreciate the excellent and inspiring theory-practice dialogue we regularly hold with members of the faculty,” said Werner Deggim, CEO of NORMA Group. “We watch Frankfurt School’s ongoing development, international expansion and research attainments with the greatest of interest, and it gives us great pleasure to be able to assist the business school in achieving its goals.”

Professor Dr Udo Steffens, President and CEO of Frankfurt School, is delighted by the agreement. “At Frankfurt School, we are steadily expanding the range of teaching and research resources devoted to management issues, and by sponsoring an Assistant Professorship, NORMA Group is helping us to take another big step forward. I would like to thank everybody at NORMA Group for their generous support!”

Additional information on the company is available on www.normagroup.com . Press photos are available from our platform on www.normagroup.com/images .

Contact
NORMA Group SE
Daphne Recker
Media Relations
Phone: +49 (0)6181 – 6102 743
Email: daphne.recker@normagroup.com

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Angelika Werner
Corporate Communications
Phone: +49 (0)69 – 154 008 708
E-Mail: a.werner@frankfurt-school.de

About NORMA Group
NORMA Group is an international market and technology leader in engineered joining technology. The company manufactures a wide range of innovative joining technology solutions in three product categories (clamp, connect and fluid) and offers more than 35,000 high-quality products and solutions to more than 10,000 customers in 100 countries. NORMA Group joining products can be found in vehicles and trains, ships and aircraft, buildings and water management as well as in applications for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The company generated sales of around EUR 636 million in 2013. With around 6,000 employees, NORMA Group operates a global network of 22 production facilities as well as numerous sales and distribution sites across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. NORMA Group has its headquarters in Maintal, Germany. Since April 2011, NORMA Group SE is listed on the German stock exchange and included in the MDAX index since March 2013.

About Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a research-led business school accredited by AACSB International and EQUIS. Frankfurt School offers educational programmes in financial, economic and management subjects, including bachelor’s and master’s degrees, a doctoral programme, executive education, certified courses of study, open seminars and training courses for professionals as well as seminars and workshops for those in vocational training. In their research the faculty members of FS address topical issues affecting business, management, banking and finance. Experts from FS also manage advisory and training projects on financial matters in emerging markets and developing countries, especially on topics related to microfinance and the financing of energy from renewable sources. The Master of Finance programme from the Frankfurt School is the only German-language financial master’s degree in the current Financial Times ranking and is ranked numer 20 (June 2014). In the Handelsblatt ranking from December 2014, which examines the research credentials of German-language business studies lecturers and faculties, the Frankfurt School faculty came in fifth place in Germany. Several FS professors have high individual rankings. In addition to its campus in Frankfurt, the FS has study centres in Hamburg and Munich as well as international offices in Istanbul (Turkey), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Beijing (China), Pune (India) and Nairobi (Kenya). It is a globally connected business school with nearly 100 partner universities. More information from www.frankfurt-school.de

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Language:	English
Company:	NORMA Group SE
	Edisonstr. 4
	63477 Maintal
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Phone:	+49 (0)6181-6102-741
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