About – AF-Campus AG

What is AF-Campus AG?

AF-Campus is a German company that provides – as Inclusive Business – learning German language (level A1 to B2), as well as cultural and labor market sensitization. It then helps with possible job placement in the formal labor market for job starters and vocational dual training (Auszubildende = “Azubi”) in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).

The company targets job starters in the health and care sector and youth apprenticeships in dual education for health and care, IT, hospitality, and selected crafts.

AF-Campus Business

Business area college graduates

This is about the preparation, placement, and follow-up coaching of experienced college graduates in health and old-age care. Under this component we target up to 1,000 experts trained and placed in jobs each year

Business area SHS graduates

This is about the preparation, placement and follow-up coaching of trainees (in German called “Auszubildende”, aged 17-22) in healthcare, IT, crafts, and hospitality. Under this component we target up to 500 “Azubis” each year trained and placed in jobs.

The dual system is firmly established in the German education system. The main characteristic of the dual system is cooperation between mainly small and medium sized companies, on the one hand, and publicly funded vocational schools, on the other. This cooperation is regulated by law. Trainees in the dual system typically spend part of each week at a vocational school and the other part at a company, or they may spend longer periods at each place before alternating. Dual training usually lasts two to three-and-a-half years.)

What we teach and provide?

AF-Campus is conducting language training in online classrooms. Students for apprenticeship programs require German language level A2 or B1 depending on the kind of job and professional college graduates in health and personal care require B2. Language courses in the school take about 7 months for B1 and 9 months for B2.

Our language training with online teaching includes language training, specific content on job-related terminologies as well as information on the German labor market and culture and living. In addition, our curriculum comprises basic math and financial literacy as well as socioeconomic about Germany.

The follow up-coaching in Germany is for 2 years. It will focus on the labor market and job-relevant information and includes coaching on job and life problems as well as personal exchange with other Filipinos. The follow-up coaching is mostly through telephone calls, and we also offer seminars in which students and job-starters can participate in person. Follow-up coaching is an integral part of the education program.

Inclusive Businesses are companies that create commercially viable solutions for the relevant problems of the poor and low-income people. They so create impact for the poor, the society as well as the company’s bottom line at the same time (triple win).

IB Innovations

As an Inclusive Business, AF-Campus AG offers to its student’s special social services during the training (Internet Access subsidies, scheme for saving for settling in Germany), free training material (in some cases computer tablets for online learning), free transportation to the new job, as well as follow-up coaching in Germany. While achieving good business returns, AF-Campus is reinvesting part of its business returns in poor students.

AF-Campus was founded in June 2020 as a German shareholding company (AG). It is now establishing its affiliate in the Philippines and aims at expanding to other Asian countries too. Its initial share capital was €155.000 and the company is currently attracting new investors. With 500-3000 students placed per year, the company aims at good revenue and reasonable profit margin.

The Company

Andreas MALL

Chief Executive Officer

Andreas MALL, is the CEO of the company. Before joining AF Campus, Andreas was at Shell, where he was responsible in several positions and countries for business continuity, IT development, controlling, Treasury, corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the context of CSR and also privately, Andreas was especially committed to young people in the countries in which he was working.
He and his wife have children of his own and adopted.

Georg WENGERT

Chairman of the Board

Georg WENGERT is the chairman of the board of AF-Campus. He has more than 40 years of professional experience as an auditor and tax consultant specializing in international tax law and advising internationally active companies. For more than 30 years Georg has also had international business experience in Southeast Asia, in particular Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam, where he is involved in numerous companies or held supervisory board mandates there. His tax consulting company is known for its committed advocacy for responsible and socially oriented business management. So he is e.g. in the Philippines the founder of the “School of Nations” Foundation e.V. in Santo Nino (Puerto Galera, Mindoro), a school for the poorest of the poor.

Dr. Armin BAUER

International Development Economist

Dr. Armin BAUER is international development economist with 28 years of professional experience specialized in poverty reduction, labor markets,social protection, inclusive business, and strategy development. Between 1991 and 2020 he worked for GIZ (3 years), ADB (19 years), KfW (3 years) and as freelance consultant.
In AF-Campus he is engaged in impact assessment and business strategy development.

Dr. Vera Klara Mall

Psychologist and Psychotherapist

Dr. Vera Klara Mall, Psychologist and Psychotherapist. Vera worked many years as legal psychologist for German courts and coach for German health insurances, lived in India and the Philippines and is mother of 6 children, among adopted children from Asia.
Vera looks after the students after they moved to Germany and provides
training and coaching.