ABETAccreditation Board for Engineering
AEArchitectural Engineering
BABAG BEKBachelor of Arts Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bildung und Erziehung in der Kindheit (roughly: Federal Association for ECEC)
BDPBerufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen e.V. (Association of German Professional Psychologists)
BIFOABetriebswirtschaftliches Institut für Organisation und Automation (Business Administration Institute for Organization and Automation, an applied research institute on organization and automation at the University of Cologne; it played a seeding role for both business information systems and entrepreneurship education)
BISBusiness Information Technology
BSBachelor’s degree
COMEuropean Commission
DtADeutsche Ausgleichsbank (German State bank for the provision of securities to private bank loans for SME)
ECECEarly Childhood Education and Care
EDPElectronic Data Processing
EEEntrepreneurship Education
FiLFachverband für integrative Lerntherapie e.V. (FiL, Professional Association for Integrative Educational Therapy)
ICTInformation and Communication Technologies
IfmInstitut für Mittelstandsforschung (Institute for the Research of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises)
IfoLeibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
KIMKölner Integrationsmodell (Cologne Integration Model, proposal for the development of an architecture for application systems in Germany)
MAEMasters of Architectural Engineering
MATMensch/Aufgabe/Technik-System (German term in business information systems explicating three components on which information systems depend: human, task, and technology)
MSMaster’s degree
OECDOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
PhDDoctor of Philosophy
PISAProgramme for International Student Assessment
R&DResearch and Development
STEMScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
UASUniversities of Applied Sciences
WiFFWeiterbildungsinitiative Frühpädagogische Fachkräfte (Further education initiative for personnel in ECEC)
WRWissenschaftsrat (German Science and Humanities Council, academic advisory body crafting policy recommendations for higher education)

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