Barbara Ophoven

Personal Information and Work Experience

• Year of Birth: 1958 
• Studies of Human Medicine (4 semesters)
  
• Studies of Classical Philology (Latin) and Sports Science (1st German State Examination for teaching at a German Gymnasium (German secondary education))
  
• Managing director and associate of the Women’s Bookstore Ltd in Frankfurt on Main (1986 – 1992)
  
• Research assistant at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt on Main (1992 – 1993)
  
• Managing director of the IKO Publishing House for Intercultural Communication in Frankfurt on the Main (1993 – 2001)
  
• since December 2001 information specialist at the Information Center for Education (DIPF)
  

Current/Key activities and fields of research

• Assistance for the department management 
• Reporting for the Information Center for Education
  
• German Education Server: Coordination of the integrated portal system
  
• German Education Server: Innovation Portal
  
• Editing of the online magazine “Education + Innovation”