Tasks of the BIBB
Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is a national and international centre of excellence for research on initial and continuing vocational education and training (VET) and the progressive development of VET. Its research, development and advisory work is aimed at identifying future tasks of vocational education and training, promoting innovation in national and international vocational education and training and developing new, practice-oriented solutions for initial and continuing vocational education and training.
BIBB was founded in 1970 and is supervised on points of law concerning its administrative activities by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Its present statutory basis is the Vocational Training Act (Berufsbildungsgesetz) of 23 March 2005 which outlines the Institute's duties.
BIBB's work
The Institute's mandated tasks include conducting research on vocational education and training, developing vocational education and training, serving in an advisory capacity and providing services.
The work done by the Institute currently revolves around five focal areas:
- the training place market and the employment system;
- updating vocational training and improving the quality of vocational training;
- life-long learning, the permeability and equivalence of training paths;
- vocational training for specific target groups;
- the internationality of vocational training.
BIBB staff members
- analyse structural developments in the training place market and in continuing education and training
- observe and study initial and continuing training practice in enterprises
- test new methods in the initial and continuing education and training field
- identify future skills requirements through early detection
- develop and update initial and continuing training occupations
- support in-company vocational training practice with modern training materials and training media
- develop concepts for qualifying company trainers
- support and foster modern vocational education and training centres as a supplement to in-company initial and continuing training
- assess the quality of VET distance learning programmes
- manage and supervise national and international programmes designed to progressively develop vocational education and training
- conduct international comparative research on vocational education and training.
BIBB is organised in four specialized departments with 16 sections and a central services department.
The Institute currently has a team of some 500 employees.
BIBB's target groups
The findings from BIBB's work and research are primarily directed at
- persons and bodies involved in planning vocational training. These include federal and state-level ministries, central employers' organisations, unions, trade associations and the offices responsible for vocational training (i.e., chambers),
- persons who will implement vocational training, in particular management, personnel officers, personnel committees, works councils, instructors in companies and vocational training facilities and vocational school teachers,
- the research community consisting of, for example, universities, tertiary education institutions and other vocational training research institutes.
- Postal address:
BIBB - Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung
Postfach 201264
53142 Bonn
Germany - Visitors' address:
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
53175 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 107 - 0
Fax: +49 (0) 228 / 107 - 29 77
E-mail: zentrale@bibb.de
Internet: www.bibb.de
