short vita

Susanne Hamelberg has been working in university continuing education since 2002. At the Berlin Career College/Central Institute for Continuing Education and Transfer at the Berlin University of the Arts, she has been working in the areas of marketing, continuing education conception and continuing education research since 2008. In addition to conducting a survey on the continuing education needs of artists and creative professionals, she supported musicians and actors in the performing arts in their marketing strategy using social media with the DigiMediaL teaching research project. Another area of responsibility was the marketing of the Berlin Career College's continuing education programmes and the development of a brand strategy.

Susanne Hamelberg assumed the position of Business Development in 2010, focusing on online teaching and internationalisation. From 2020 until April 2025 she also served as the President`s Personal Representative for Digital Strategy and Online Teaching, and, together with Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz, initiated the project initiatives InKüLe and MIDAP, both funded through the Program for Structural Innovation in Higher Education (Lehrarchitektur) of the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre). Susanne Hamelberg currently heads the Digital Learning Center at the Berlin University of the Arts.

From 2002 to 2008, Susanne Hamelberg was responsible for the conception of an interactive application to optimise usability in e-learning at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and designed an enrolment strategy for the entire university as part of the e-learning team.

She is a member of the spokesperson's council of the Berlin/Brandenburg regional group of the German Association for Continuing and Distance Learning (DGWF) and an expert in the Higher Education Forum on Digitalisation, an initiative of the Stifterverband, the Centre for Higher Education Development and the German Rectors' Conference. Susanne Hamelberg studied Social and Business Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts.