Andreas Bröker graduated from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in 1991 with a degree in industrial engineering (specializing in corporate planning), including the supplementary subject of company pedagogy. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Vocational Education until 1994 as part of a research project on qualification process monitoring in the new federal states. At the same time, he completed a second degree in vocational education (M.A. 1994). In 1995, he completed his doctorate (Dr. phil.) in labour sciences and vocational education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with the topic "The reorganization of continuing vocational training in the regional transformation process in the new federal states".
In 1996, Andreas Bröker began his professional career in senior social management; his positions include:

• Management of the non-profit employment and qualification company in Pforzheim (incl. youth workshop, SGB VIII), combined with the assignment for municipal employment promotion (BSHG; AFG or SGB II / SGB III),
• Management of the internationally active and regionally socially committed family holding company (GmbH) of a medium-sized, owner-managed company in Karlsruhe,
• Facility management (e. V.) integration assistance (SGB IX, XII): Workshop + residential homes for people with disabilities
• Head of department in the Baden state welfare association: state-wide care rate negotiations SGB V; supra-regional economic and construction consulting SGB XI and SGB IX
• Regional management of a social enterprise (e. V.) with inpatient, day-care and outpatient services for the elderly (SGB V; SGB XI) as well as rescue services including paramedic training
• Management of ESF and BMAS model project "KIZ+ Kinder im Zentrum" for the Pforzheim / Enzkreis region at Pforzheim NPO
• Establishment of an office for legal support for adults from Pforzheim / Enzkreis / Calw

Andreas Bröker has also been a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2002; in 2007 he completed his habilitation at this faculty with the topic "Continuing vocational training as a qualification and re-integration strategy, especially for problem groups in the labor market". Since then, he has worked here part-time as a private lecturer with a teaching license for continuing vocational training. He is particularly interested in combining theory and practice. He therefore conducts excursions to social enterprises, offers practice-related topics for BA and MA theses and provides specialist advice and scientific evaluations in the social economy, the results of which he makes known to a wider specialist public through publications.

Groborz, J. / Bröker, A. (2024): Poverty risk of families despite earned income. Passive social transfers or active vocational training as a solution? LIT Publishing House.

Jost, J. / Bröker, A. (2024): Diversity management and employee retention. New demands on managers? LIT Publishing House.

Bröker, A. (2017): Effectiveness and complementary potential of combined employment promotion and health promotion. LIT Verlag Münster - Hamburg - Berlin - Vienna - London.

Petersen / Fischer / Bröker et al. (2015): Vocational orientation in secondary schools. In: Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (ed.): Effect of support measures in the transition system. Reports on vocational education and training. AGBFN. Berlin, pp. 25 - 42.

Bröker, A. (2014): Health promotion for the long-term unemployed as part of a work opportunity - AGH - (employment promotion). Final project report on the evaluation of an AGH supplemented by health modules at Q-Prints&Service gGmbH Pforzheim on behalf of AOK Nordschwarzwald.

Stroewe / Fischer / Bröker / Barkholz (2013): Expansion of vocational orientation in secondary schools. Final project report for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Baden-Württemberg Regional Directorate. Stuttgart.

Bröker, A. (2012): Health promotion and employment promotion - two intervention approaches that must necessarily be dovetailed. Prevention, Issue 01/2012, p. 6 - 10.

Bröker, A.: (2011): Combined health and employment promotion. Promoting the health of the (long-term) unemployed - improving conditions for employment - raising cost awareness. Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna.

Bröker, A. (2008a): Vocational education tradition and vocational training policy necessity: Learning arrangements in work situations, especially for semi-skilled and unskilled workers. Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (ZBW), Issue I/2008, Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, pp. 98 - 110.

Bröker, A. (2008b): Working and learning for semi-skilled and unskilled workers. Current labor market and vocational training policy necessities in the vocational education and training tradition. Sozialer Fortschritt, Issue 9/2008, Duncker & Humblot Berlin, pp. 225 - 231.

Bröker, A. (2007): Continuing vocational training as a qualification and re-integration strategy, esp. for so-called. Problem groups in the labor market. Kumulus im Rahmen der kumulativen Habilitation (only published within the university).

Bröker, A. (2006): Occupational re-integration potentials of unemployed young people. - Results from profiling courses funded by local authorities, the employment agency and the ESF - In: Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik, Heft I/06. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, p. 134f.

Bröker, A. (2005): Re-integration through work in Pforzheim. Socially acceptable employment promotion for foreign citizens. In: http://www.gla.ac.uk/rg/dproso12.pdf

Bröker, A. (2005): Promoting the re-integration potential of unemployed young people. Peter Lang Verlag Frankfurt/Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Vienna.

Bröker, A. (2005): Profiling: Vocational orientation and potential analysis for unemployed young people. In: WSI-Nachrichten, Issue 07/2005, pp. 403 - 406.

Bröker, A, Schönig, B. (2005): Market access of the long-term unemployed despite placement-inhibiting characteristics. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt/Main.

Bröker, A. (2005): Joint employment promotion for people with placement barriers - a current assessment of occupational, fiscal and individual success factors. In: Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (ZBW), Issue I/2005, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 112-123.

Bröker, A. (2004): Employment promotion: Cooperation pays off. In: Sozialwirtschaft / Zeitschrift für Sozialmanagement, Issue 5/2004, p. 10f.

Bröker, A. / Schönig, W. (2004): Cost-benefit relations in social work - employment promotion for the long-term unemployed. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Issue 08/2004, pp. 421-427.

Schönig, W. / Bröker, A. (2004): Evaluation of employment promotion in cooperation projects - re-integration, fiscal return and subjective benefit. In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Issue 05/2004, Bonn, pp. 126-130.

Bröker, A. (2003): (Re-)Integration through work in Pforzheim. Socially acceptable employment promotion for foreign citizens. In: Zeitschrift für Migration und Soziale Arbeit (IZA), Issue 3-4/2003. Beltz Verlag Weinheim, p. 68 ff. .

Bröker, A. (2002): "Working and learning" as a practical approach to the vocational (re-)integration of the long-term unemployed in the gardening and landscaping sector. In: Hans Bott (ed.): Perspectives on competence development. W. Bertelsmann Verlag/Bielefeld, pp. 25-40.

Bröker, A (2002): Socially acceptable and practice-oriented employment promotion - a municipal example from Pforzheim. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Issue 02/2002, Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, pp. 113-117.

Bröker, A (2001): The vocational (re-)integration of welfare recipients and the long-term unemployed through the Pforzheim step-by-step model. In: Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik (ZBW), Issue IV/2001. Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. S. 607-616.

Bröker, A (2001): The Pforzheim stage model. In: Dettling, W.: The city and its citizens. New approaches to municipal social policy. Bertelsmann Foundation Publishing House. Gütersloh, p. 132ff.

Bröker, A. (2000): Municipal employment promotion for Pforzheim. In: Forum Arbeit - Verbandszeitung - Heft 01/2000, , p. 13f. .Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeit (ed.). Berlin.

Bröker, A. (1999): Best practice example from Baden-Württemberg: GBE mbH Pforzheim: Cooperation with the private sector. In: Pro Arbeit '99: Öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung als Chance für Arbeitslose und Wirtschaft. Neue Arbeit gGmbH Stuttgart, pp. 38-41.

Bröker, A. (1997 / 1998): 1st / 2nd Pforzheim regional conference on the subject of "Promoting employment instead of financing unemployment and welfare benefits". Documentation. Pforzheim.

Bröker, A. (1996): Institutional-structural reorganization of continuing vocational training under the framework conditions of the AFG. In: Dobischat/Lipsmeier;Drexel: Der Umbruch des Weiterbildungssystems in den neuen Bundesländern. Edition Quem. Waxmann Verlag, Münster/N.Y., pp. 111-164.

Bröker, A. (1996): The reorganization of continuing vocational training in the regional transformation process of the new federal states: Destruction and construction in interplay. (Dissertation). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt/New York.