About us
We combine academic quality with digital innovation and social responsibility, creating new paths in academic education. With our unique blended learning model, we support people who want to realise their potential regardless of time, place or life circumstances.
Our vision & mission
FERNFH combines academic quality with digital innovation and social responsibility. Our vision and mission show what we stand for and how we shape the future: openly, flexibly and responsibly – for education that makes an impact.
Vision
As Austria’s first Distance-Learning University of Applied Sciences, we stand for an open, flexible and inclusive education system that gives people at every stage of life access to high-quality higher education. We use digital technologies and innovative forms of learning to rethink education and actively contribute to the transformation of business, health, technology and society.
Mission
We create conditions that enable learning regardless of place, time and life circumstances. Our aim is to combine academic quality with flexibility and practical relevance. We promote lifelong learning, drive digital transformation forward and strengthen equal opportunities. Through applied research and teaching, we actively contribute to a sustainable society.
Our values & guiding principles
Academic quality is the foundation of everything we do in teaching, research and knowledge transfer. It ensures reliability, credibility and impact and forms the basis for innovation and shaping the future.
Building on this, the following values shape our approach:
Academic education
We see academic education as an important personal, social and economic value.
Removing barriers to education
We are convinced that study conditions and forms of learning and teaching that are designed appropriately in didactic, methodological and organisational terms can remove individual and structural barriers to education and create equal opportunities in higher education for everyone who wants to learn.
Diversity
In our actions and decisions, we recognise and promote the diversity of people, life and study circumstances, academic methods, opinions and ideas. We see diversity as an enrichment and inclusion as our mission.