Institut der Feuerwehr Nordrhein-Westfalen, Firefighter training institute in Münster, Germany.

The Institute of Fire Service North Rhine-Westphalia is a regional firefighter training school located in Münster. The campus includes classrooms, training grounds, dormitory facilities, and sports areas designed to support comprehensive emergency personnel education.

The 2007 training hall took over two years to build, with first plans dating from 2001 and costs of about 23 million euros. Covering nearly 11,000 m² and rising some 30 m, it lets crews drill in a laboratory, underground car park, apartments and high-bay warehouse regardless of weather. A southern site in Kreis Düren opened in 2022.

The IdF trains group leaders and above, with separate courses for professional (B) and volunteer (F) brigades, plus seminars for crisis-team staff. Since 2020 it has offered web seminars. Its technical competence centre, grown from the former TÜD, tests new vehicles and advises municipalities on procurement.

The main campus is in Münster, while the 2.5-hectare training ground lies in Handorf, partly on Telgte territory near the former Münster-Handorf airfield; the 2007 training hall stands beside it. Courses run from group-leader level upward, and places are allocated through the fire brigades and district governments, so visits should be arranged with the institute beforehand.

The training ground in Handorf covers 2.5 hectares and includes a semi-detached house, a doctor's practice and a multi-family building for drills, plus tank wagons built to Deutsche Bahn standards, cars and lorries. A steel pipe filled with concrete serves as an anchor point rated for forces up to 1000 kN.