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13/ 2004
Bonn, 15.04.2004
Win with continuing vocational education and training!
- BIBB opens competition for 2005 Innovation in Continuing Education Prize -
Fostering innovative ideas in the field of continuing vocational and in-house education and training and, in the process, blazing trails for new developments are the objectives of the Innovation in Continuing Education Prize ("WIP") which Germany's Federal Institute for Vocational Training ("BIBB") will award for the fifth time this year.
Five prizes will be awarded together with €2,500 in prize money for each winner.
The 2005 WIP competition is open to education service providers, organizations, institutions, facilities and companies from Germany and abroad which have developed innovative concepts for continuing vocational or in-house education and training. These concepts can be aimed at teaching technical, personal, social and participative or methodological competence or, for example,
- Teaching new vocational profiles with new skills,
- Combining traditional skills in new ways,
- Expanding existing profiles with new skills and qualifications,
- Offering new training profiles for specific target groups,
- Using new teaching and learning methods or ways of organizing learning or
- Implementing new concepts for training that takes place in the actual work process.
Concepts involving pre-vocational training, vocational training for young people and vocational training which is geared exclusively to university graduates are not eligible to compete.
The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2004
The winners will be selected by an independent jury. The award ceremony will be held at the Didacta Trade Fair for Education and Training in Stuttgart in the spring of 2005. The Minister President of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Mr. Erwin Teufel, will be the patron for the ceremony.
The prizewinners and winning submissions will receive coverage through the press, trade journals and the Internet.
Forms and information on the conditions for entering the competition for the 2005 Innovation in Continuing Education Prize can be downloaded from the Internet at www.bibb.de/wip or requested by phone, fax, e-mail or in writing from:
Tel: +49 228 - 107 1107, fax: +49 1888 - 10 666 1107, e-mail: suckrau@bibb.de, mail address: Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Stichwort: WIP 2005, Frau Suckrau, A 2.2, Robert-Schuman-Platz 3, 53175 Bonn, Germany.
For more detailed information, please contact at BIBB: Dr. Brüggemann (Tel.: + 29 228 - 107 1132, brueggemann@bibb.de), Ms. Leppelmeier (Tel. + 49 228 - 107 1130, leppelmeier@bibb.de) or Mr. Schade (Tel. + 49 228 - 107 1117, schade@bibb.de).
Vergeben werden fünf Preise à 2.500,- €.
