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17/ 2006
Bonn, 08.06.2006
WIP 2007: still a chance of winning with continuing training!
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is this year launching the Prize for Innovation in Continuing Education and Training (WIP) 2007, the seventh time the competition has been held, 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. And taking part is very much worthwhile: the five best concepts will each win cash prizes of €2,500. But time is running out: the closing date for entries is 31 July 2006.
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 must relate to 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 competition will be judged by an independent jury.
Prizes will be awarded at Germany's major showcase of educational achievement, the "didacta" Education Fair to take place at Cologne Trade Fair from 27 February until 3 March 2007. The Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr Jürgen Rüttgers, has agreed to act as 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 (WIP) together with further information can be downloaded from
