Forum 6
Sustainable development in vocational education and training
Like few other areas, vocational education and training has to endow the concept of sustainability with technical and specialised content in order to thus ensure its ability to meet future challenges. Not only has society has gotten the message that sustainability is important, concepts for ways to design and organise sustainable vocational education and training have also been developed. In light of this, Forum 6 will deal with the effects of existing strategies that target sustainability in vocational education and training and the working world.
The first generation of such funding projects and pilot projects is peaking. Against this backdrop, Forum 6 will take stock and examine the respective effects, obstacles and future need for action in this area. This will involve a consideration of the three major strategic areas of VET research, practice and policy.
Four presentations from different perspectives will provide an introduction to this subject. The different points of view will represent the globalised society, entrepreneurial management, actual didactics and a presentation of current knowledge and will provide an impetus for the four working groups to be held on the following day.
These working groups will focus mostly on network formation and communication, support projects (pilot projects), learning from good examples and the establishment of permanent structures for skills development, not least as a source of sustainability in the wood and forestry industries. The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), the German Environmental Foundation (DBU) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research are the institutional points of reference for and partners of this forum.
