On behalf of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Prof. Dr Anke Hanft has been advising the state's universities on expanding their part-time Master's programmes since October 2016. As part of the funding programme "Initiatives for the expansion of part-time Master's programmes", the 20 participating universities are invited by the Ministry of Science to take part in annual advisory meetings, which involve the four advising academic experts as well as project leaders, deans and university heads of the funded projects. Professor Hanft is Professor of Advanced Scientific Training at the University of Oldenburg and Scientific Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L).