Diploma in Lighting Design /

Specialist planner for light and lighting design

DACH-II Certificate

 

In this executive program, you will acquire the ability to independently plan and implement complex technical and creative lighting projects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and provide professional support to your customers. To this end, we provide you with a compact and practical grounding in lighting technology, lighting planning and lighting design.

Challenging lighting projects await our graduates!

Location: Hamburg, Mon - Fri 23-27 June 2025 (German)

       or Düsseldorf, Mon - Fri 01 - 05 Sep 2025 (English)

       or Munich, Mon - Fri 10 - 14 Nov 2025 (German)

Location: Munich, Munich, Mon - Fri 12 May - 14 May 2025 (German)

        or Hamburg, Mon - Fri 13 - 17 Oct 2025 (English)

        or Munich, Mon - Fri 24 - 28 Nov 2025 (German)

Location: Munich, Wed - Fri 02 - 04 July 2025 or 15 - 17 October 2025 (German), English-language appointment by arrangement

You will be given a larger design planning task which you will work on in stages. You will be supported by the Academy in regular coaching sessions (ZOOM/Teams).

Location: Munich, Fri Sat 13-14 June 2025 or Fri 05-06 December 2025

By taking part in the 20-day executive programme, you will be trained by the Academy as an expert in lighting technology, lighting planning and lighting design. This certificate course enables you to make use of almost the entire range of courses offered by the Academy in a compact and summarised form and to qualify as a professional lighting and lighting design specialist. You cannot expect more from a systematic and well-founded further training programme in the lighting industry.

The course consists of 16 attendance days and 4 project days, which you complete in 9-24 months. Several performance assessments (control questions/planning tasks) confirm that you have mastered the course content and can implement it independently in lighting practice. Your previous achievements may be recognized. Please ask us for details.

• Basics of electrical engineering
• Lamps, luminaires and LED technology
  
• Basics of lighting control
  
• Lighting standards for indoor/outdoor lighting (12464-1,2, ASR 3.4 and 13201)
  
• Basic principles of lighting design for interiors, streets, squares, facades
  
• Planning lighting systems on the computer with DIALUX based on case studies for hall, office, shop, hotel, street, sidewalk, square, park and facade lighting (renderings, standard compliance, parts lists)
  
• DIALUX (EVO) Advanced: complex and dynamic lighting planning and renderings
  
• Human Centric Lighting (HCL): Design of light spaces and calculation of HCL lighting systems
• Daylight planning and daylight control
  
• Design techniques in lighting design
  
• Special areas of lighting design
  
• Economic efficiency calculations on the computer with LightBooster 2.0 (pay back/net present value)
  
• Management of lighting projects (conception, process organization, controlling)
  
• Presentation and sale of lighting products and projects
  
• Prepare, conduct and follow up on customer meetings professionally
  
• Manage lighting projects professionally
  
• Develop your own ideas in the lighting sector and translate them into a business model
  
• Participation in live customer projects and direct customer contact during the project phase (project days)

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You can now work completely independently as a creatively ambitious lighting planner and impress clients with your designs and implementation plans. You will have in-depth knowledge of lighting technology and lighting planning. You will also know how to professionally manage lighting projects at the interface between clients, architects, component suppliers, and lighting planners. This program will leverage your lighting planning and project management skills as an employee or create a solid foundation for successful self-employment.