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09/ 2006
Bonn, 30.03.2006
Winning with continuing training!
- BIBB launches the competition for the 2007 Prize for Innovation in Continuing Education and Training (WIP) -
This year sees the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) launching the Prize for Innovation in Continuing Education and Training (WIP) for the seventh time, the aims being to promote innovative provision in the area of continuing vocational or in-company education and training and put down a marker for new developments.
Up to five prizes of €2,500 each can be won
The WIP 2007 competition is open to training services providers, organisations, institutions and companies from home and abroad which have developed innovative concepts in the field of continuing vocational/in-company education and training. The concepts may focus on the imparting of specialist, personnel, social or methodological competences and may focus on such areas as:
- imparting a new profile with new qualifications,
- combining traditional qualifications in a new way,
- extending a profile to encompass new qualifications,
- providing new, target group specific qualifications profiles,
- deploying new teaching/learning methods or forms of learning organisation or
- implementing new qualifications concepts within the work process.
Concepts relating to prevocational training or initial vocational education and training for young people and concepts targeted exclusively at graduates are ineligible.
The closing date for entries is 31 July 2006
The competition will be judged by an independent jury. Prizes will be awarded next spring at the Education Fair 2007, to take place in Cologne. The Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr Jürgen Rüttgers, is patron of the awards.
Reports on the prizewinners and winning concepts will appear in the press, in specialist periodicals and on the Internet.
The entry forms and rules of participation for the 2007 Prize for Innovation in Continuing Education and Training can be downloaded from www.bibb.de/wip or requested by telephone: 0228/107-1107, fax: 01888/10 666 1107, e-mail: suckrau@bibb.de or by post from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training: Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, WIP 2007, Frau Suckrau, A 2.2, Robert-Schuman-Platz 3, 53175 Bonn.
Further information is available at BIBB from: Ms Leppelmeier (Tel. 0228/107-1130, leppelmeier@bibb.de) and Mr Schade (Tel. 0228/107-1117, schade@bibb.de).
