Your Academy
for Planning, Technology and Lighting Design
Professional training and further educational services for the lighting industry
DACH-II Certificate in Lighting Design
Lighting Design Diploma
(Specialist for light & lighting design)
With this comprehensive program, the academy will train you to become a planning specialist who confidently masters all the basic requirements placed on a creative, modern, self-employed lighting designer.
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This course is a complete training in lighting design. Its aim is to provide you with a solid basis to accomplish all relevant tasks in your daily work as a light planner.
Course language: German or English
from May 12, 2025 (face-to-face or online)
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Certified Lighting Designer for Indoor Lighting
This course specializes in interior lighting. It provides you with a solid foundation for independently implementing lighting designs—both in commercial and residential settings.
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This course is an intensive further education in hands-on and computer based indoor lighting design. It makes you to become a light planner that can tackle indoor lighting problems in every day work.
Course language: German or English
from June 23, 2025 (face-to-face or online)
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Certified Lighting Designer for Outdoor lighting
By participating in this course, you will specialize in outdoor lighting: In the future, you will have a fundamental command of the planning of streets, paths, squares, green spaces, facades and monuments with light.
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This course is an intensive further education in hands on and computer based outdoor lighting design. It makes you to become a light planner that can tackle outdoor lighting problems on an individual basis (road lighting, town squares, facades etc.).
Course language: German or English
from May 12, 2025 (face-to-face or online)
2 places still available
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DACH-I Certificate Certified Lighting Consultant (lighting specialist)
This course will train you to become a specialist in providing competent advice on all aspects of lighting technology and lighting planning. From now on, expressive presentations and the right technical vocabulary will be just as much a part of your personal strengths as the development and validation of new business ideas and
business models.
business models.
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This course is in-depth training that will make you a lighting consultant who is well appreciated by your customers. As a specialist for competent consultations on many aspects of lighting technology and design, you will convince your customers with expressive presentations and good negotiating skills.
Course language: German or English
from May 12, 2025 (face-to-face or online)
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Basic Certificate in Lighting Design
With this course you will acquire the lighting technology and planning basics of indoor or outdoor lighting.
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This course provides you with first insight into lighting
technologies, standards (norms) and planning. It can be booked for both, indoor lighting and outdoor lighting.
Course language: German or English
from May 12, 2025 (face-to-face or online)
2 places still available
Advanced Certificate Lighting and Business
The Light & Business course will develop you into a professional consultant/salesperson for lighting products, lighting solutions, and lighting services, including lighting planning and design. You'll also learn how to systematically develop business ideas/business areas and create concrete customer benefits and unique selling points. This is a must-have for your self-employment or for your proactive role as a successful employee of your company. This module is very practical and interactive – including role plays and case studies in small groups under intensive supervision.
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This course transforms you into a lighting consultant/lighting professional with a good sense of handling customers needs and generating new business opportunities/models. Selling out your products and ideas is "king" for your success in the lighting industry or the development of your own lighting design business.
Course language: German
from 13-14 June 2025 or 5-6 October 2025 (only in person)
Advanced Certificate Lighting Design
This course will provide you with a comprehensive understanding and modern practical foundations of innovative lighting design. In addition to structural typologies of lighting design, the focus will be on teaching presentation dramaturgies for your own lighting projects.
The advanced certificate Light and Business
is an ideal addition to this course - but can also be booked individually.
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This course is not just a training. It helps you to understand what lighting design is about and how it can deliver significant added value to your company or your own business. Participants who are willing to join this course should have first work experience in lighting design or technical planning of lighting fixtures.
Course language: German
from 02.-04.07.2025 or 15.-17.10.2025 (face-to-face or online)
“Professional work in the lighting and electrical industry requires high-quality educational standards that promote intelligent creative thinking and
combine everyday procedures."
Sascha Fabian, Dr. Roland Heinz
Academy Board of Trustees / Management
What we promise you
ROOF
Certifications
With our qualifying personal certificates, you can demonstrate your skills to customers
and really get started in your career.
Professionelle
Trainer /Coaches
Our trainers each have many years of professional experience in the lighting industry.
Technical and design excellence
Lighting technology, standards, lighting design, DIALUX, RELUX, pCON Planner, autoCAD, Vectorworks - everything will be taught to you at the most modern level.
Publicly bookable
Courses
You can also participate in our courses as an individual in your region.
Flexible
In-house training
We come to your company and specifically train/certify your employees.
Individuelles
Mentoring
We will support you over several weeks/months in the realization of your lighting projects.