Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

1.1 Fostering readiness to provide training on the part of companies

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Chaired by: Kornelia Raskopp, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn

A large number of programmes, initiatives and projects which Germany's federal and state governments have funded in recent years focus on boosting the willingness of companies to provide in-house vocational training. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research's JOBSTARTER training structure programme which aims to create additional in-company training places and improve training structures provides the point of departure for this workshop. Experience gathered in the course of (preceding) programmes with similar objectives will also be brought into the discussions held during this workshop.
This working group will examine instruments being used to foster companies' willingness to provide training and analyse their impact.
 
This will be done from the perspective of three different activities which are generally considered important to efforts to foster companies' willingness to provide in-house vocational training:

• Training place development - How can enterprises be motivated to create training places?
• External training management - Which services for companies have proven to be useful in connection with the creation of new training places?
• Establishment of network structures - Can networks help ensure on a lasting basis companies' willingness to provide in-house training and can they help improve training structures?

Programmme

9:00  am

• Introduction
  Kornelia Raskopp, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn

9:15 am  

• JOBSTARTER: Einblick, Durchblick, Rückblick
  (JOBSTARTER: Insights, the Overall Picture, a Look Back)
  Magnus Milde, BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Bonn

9:45 am 

• Perspective 1: Support enterprises
  Chaired by: Kornelia Raskopp, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Friedemann Christ, Ramböll Management GmbH, Berlin
  Dr Günter Lambertz, DIHK (Association of Chambers of Industry and Commerce), Berlin
  Beate Zeller, Forschungsinstitut für Betriebliche Bildung (research institute for in-house vocational training), Nuremberg
  Roland Matzdorf, Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
  Roland Nagl, Berufsförderungsinstitut Peters GmbH & Co. KG , Munich 

11:15 am Coffee break

11:30 am  

• Perspective 2: Find trainees
  Chaired by: Katharina Kanschat, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Stefan Eckert, Gesellschaft für Innovationsforschung und Beratung mbH, Berlin
  Andreas Andresen, Norddeutsche Ausbildungsagentur GmbH, Hamburg
  Frank Schott, Berufsförderungswerk Arbeit und Leben (non-profit organisation to foster education and training), Leipzig
  Volker Seifert, Landes-Gewerbeförderungsanstalt  des nordrhein-westfälischen Handwerks e.V. (state institute for the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises), Düsseldorf

1:00 pm Lunch break

2:30 pm  

• Perspective 3: Use networks
  Chaired by: Christoph Acker, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Prof Dr Peter Albrecht, GEBIFO (Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Bildungsforschung und Qualifizierung mbH), Berlin, JOBSTARTER regional office for Germany's eastern states
  Peter Wölffling, IHK Projektgesellschaft (project company of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce), Frankfurt/Oder
  Michael Zaske, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Women of the State of Brandenburg, Potsdam
  Dr Regina Gellrich, International Meeting Centre of St. Marienthal, Ostritz

4:00 pm Coffee break

4:30 pm   

• Joint conclusions
  Chaired by: Kornelia Raskopp, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Wolfgang Müller-Tamke, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Volker Grünewald, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Tanja Weigel, JOBSTARTER at BIBB, Bonn
  Magnus Milde, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
  

1.2 The need for and development of skilled workers

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Chaired by: Dr Agnes Dietzen and Dr Robert Helmrich, BIBB, Bonn

This working group will explore the new demands that the employment system is placing on worker skills and qualifications and on the vocational training system in the wake of social and economic change.

• Development of skilled worker requirements and  the labour supply in the future
• Impact of demographic changes on the development of skilled labour
  Possible solutions to averting training and skill bottlenecks
• Changes in company personnel and recruitment strategies, particularly with regard to entry-level qualifications and competition between output- and input-oriented approaches to training and initial and continuing training programmes (e.g., in-company vs. school / university programmes)
• What demands does / will this place on the vocational education and training system?

Programme

9:00 am  

• Welcome and introduction by the moderators
  Dr Agnes Dietzen, BIBB, Bonn
  Dr Robert Helmrich, BIBB, Bonn

9:15 am

• Prognosen von Fachkräftebedarf und Angebot
  (Forecasts for skilled labour requirements and the supply of skilled labour)
  Dr Ulrich Walwei, IAB (Institute for Employment Research), Nuremberg

9:45 am

• Auswirkungen der demographischen Veränderungen auf die Fachkräfteentwicklung - Lösungsansätze zur Vermeidung von Qualifikations- und Kompetenzengpässen
  (The effects of demographic change on skilled labour development - Approaches to averting training and skill bottlenecks)
  Dr Robert Helmrich, BIBB, Bonn

10:15 am

• Verstärkte Bildungsanstrengungen zur Ausschöpfung von Bildungspotentialen
  (Increased efforts to exploit education potential)
  Gerd Möller, Ministry of Schools and Continuing Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 

10:45 am Coffee break

11:00 am 

• Nachqualifizierung von Erwerbspersonen ohne abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung
  ('Second-chance' training for employed persons who have not previously completed any formal vocational training)
  Dr Uwe Elsholz, Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung (f-bb, a vocational training think tank), Nuremberg

11:30 am 

• Betriebliche Reaktionen auf den demografischen Wandel im Hinblick auf die Weiterbildung / Kompetenzentwicklung von älteren Beschäftigten
  (Demographic change and how enterprises respond to it in the context of continuing training / skill development for older employers)
  Dr Hildegard Zimmermann, BIBB, Bonn
  Franz Schapfel-Kaiser, BIBB, Bonn

12:00 pm 

• Discussion

12:30 pm  Lunch break

1:30 pm

• Zuwanderung und verstärkte Bildungsanstrengungen für Migranten sowie bessere Erwerbsmöglichkeiten und -bedingungen für Frauen
  (Immigration and increased efforts in the education field for immigrants and improved employment opportunities and conditions for women)
  To be announced

2:00 pm 

• "Fachkräfte made in Brandenburg" - Fachkräftesicherung als Initiative der Landesregierung
  ('Skilled labour made in Brandenburg' - Securing skilled labour through an initiative of the Brandenburg state government)
  Ute Tenkhof, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Women of the State of Brandenburg

2:30 pm 

• Eigene Berufsausbildung oder externe Rekrutierung von Fachkräften?
  Betriebliche Strategien zur Deckung des Fachkräftebedarfs
  (Train one's own skilled workers or recruit them externally? Company strategies for meeting skilled labour needs)
  Florian Janik, IAB (Institute for Employment Research), Nuremberg

3:00 pm  Coffee break

3:15 pm

• Qualifikationsentwicklung im Dienstleistungsbereich - Herausforderungen für das duale System der Berufsbildung
  (Qualification development  in the services sector - Challenges for Germany's dual vocational training system)
  Dr Alexandra Uhly, BIBB, Bonn

3:45 pm 

• Personalrekrutierungsverhalten von Betrieben in wachsenden Beschäftigungsfeldern
  (Personnel recruitment behaviour of companies in growing fields of employment)
  Dr Agnes Dietzen, BIBB, Bonn

4:15 pm 

• Fachkräftebedarf und Fachkräfteentwicklung für die Arbeit in integrierten Managementsystemen
  (Skilled labour requirements and skilled labour development for work in integrated management systems)
  Wolfgang Kötter, GITTA mbH - Beratung, Training, Organisationsentwicklung,, Berlin

4:45 pm 

• Neue Anforderungen an PersonalentwicklerInnen aus KMU - Praxiserprobte Lösungsansätze
  (New demands being placed on persons in charge of human resources development in SMEs - Field-tested approaches)
  Oliver Lilie, MAT, Magdeburg   

5:15 pm 

• Discussion

1.3 The necessity of connectivity in every qualification - Vocational training for disabled and disadvantaged persons

There are differences in the way disabled persons and disadvantaged individuals are defined, recorded and handled. However the delineations separating the two are often not clear-cut and the differentiations tend to be more theoretical and/or related to funding and assistance matters and have no relevance to vocational teaching practice, particularly when it comes to developing solutions that are tailored to actual needs.
Irrespective of differentiation and definition issues, in both instances the people involved are persons with special needs.

For both groups, vocational training policy has the following task:
VET policy should give priority to designing vocational training products that take the special features of the respective group of persons into consideration and are an integral part of the 'regular' vocational education and training system - in contrast to 'stand-alone solutions' that foster these individuals' segregation.
Compatibility and permeability constitute the VET policy criteria and yardsticks for ensuring good prospects for such individuals' occupational and social integration.

• What options does the legal framework offer for this?
• Is there any need for modification or supplementation? 
• Are the learning venues and learning concepts for earning vocational qualification coordinated with one another?
• Do funding / assistance concepts and practice reflect the objective of integration and these individuals' claim to integration?
• What products are on offer for providing vocational training for disabled persons and disadvantaged individuals?
• What experience have other countries had in this area?
• What is the current status of the implementation of the European Action Plan "Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities" including the disability mainstreaming concept for Germany?

In this working group, vocational training experts will examine and discuss these questions from the perspective of "The necessity of connectivity in every qualification" as part of Forum 1 "Strategies to Secure Training, Continuing Training and Occupational Competence" at the 5th BIBB Congress

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Chaired by: Kirsten Vollmer and Dr Friedel Schier, BIBB, Bonn
 
Programme 

9:00 am 

• Welcome and introduction
  Kirsten Vollmer, BIBB, Bonn
  Dr Friedel Schier, BIBB, Bonn

9:15 am  

• Was heißt "disability mainstreaming" ? Konzeption und Umsetzung der EU-Strategie
  (What is 'disability mainstreaming'? Conceiving and implementing the EU strategy)
  To be announced, BAMS

10:00 am  

• Wie buchstabiert sich "Teilhabegebot"? Gestaltungsräume und Widersprüche des Rahmens in Deutschland
  (What is the 'participation rule'? Leeway and contradictions in the framework in Germany)
  Professor Dr Horst Biermann, University of Dortmund

10:45 am  Coffee break

11:00 am    

• Was sagen die Akteure der Praxis? Erfahrungen, Anregungen und Kritik der für die betriebliche und schulische Ausbildung Verantwortlichen
  (What do the players in day-to-day practice say? Experience, suggestions and criticism from the individuals responsible for in-company and school-based vocational training)
  Ulrich Krause, Ministry of Education and Women of the State of Schleswig-Holstein
  Martin Lambers, Deutscher Bauernverband (Association of German Farmers)

12:30  pm  Lunch break

1:30  pm  

• Mehr als nur Geldgeber - Förderkonzepte und Förderpraxis der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
  (More than just a financial backer - funding concepts and funding practice of the Federal Employment Agency)
  Sebastian Peine, Federal Employment Agency, Nuremberg

2:15  pm  

• Ganz nah dran - Erfahrungen, Schwierigkeiten und Forderungen der Bildungsträger
  (Up close - Experience, difficulties and demands of education providers)
  Gabriele D'heil-Hülse, Annedore-Leber-Berufsbildungswerk Berlin (Annedore Leber Vocational Training Centre for Disabled Juveniles, Berlin)
  Walter Würfel, Internationaler Bund (private sponsor of youth, social and education work in Germany), Frankfurt/Main

3:45 pm  Coffee break

4:00  pm  

• Blick von außen und nach draußen: Good practice in der Schweiz
  (A look from the outside and a look outwards: Good practice in Switzerland)
  Bettina Hübschr, Eidgenössisches Hochschulinstitut für Berufsbildung (federal higher education institute for vocational education and training), Switzerland 

4:45  pm  

• Bilanz: "Hausaufgaben für die Akteure"
  (Taking stock: 'Homework for the players')
  Kirsten Vollmer, BIBB, Bonn
  Dr Friedel Schier, BIBB, Bonn

1.4 Seeing further than the end of our nose: funding models for initial and continuing vocational education and training

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Chaired by: Klaus Berger and Dick Moraal, BIBB, Bonn
 
Programme

Reports that are held in English will be simultaneously interpreted into German.

9:00 am   

• Welcome and introduction
  Klaus Berger, BIBB, Bonn
  Dick Moraal, BIBB, Bonn

9:15 am   

• Finanzierungsformen beruflicher Aus- und Weiterbildung
  (Forms of financing initial and continuing vocational training)
  Dr Roman Jaich, Projekt KomNetz, Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg

10:00 am    

• National integriertes Finanzierungsmodell in Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsbildung - Beispiel Dänemark
  (Integrated national funding model in the labour market and vocational education and training - as illustrated by Denmark)
  As Prof John Houman Sörensen / As Prof Morten Lassen, CARMA, University of Aalborg

10:45 am Coffee break

11:150 am    

• Frankreichs Fondssystem zur Finanzierung von Weiterbildung
  (France's fund system for financing continuing education and training)
  Dr Ingrid Drexel, Munich

12:00 am    

• Sektorale Aus- und Weiterbildungsfonds in den Niederlanden
  (Sectoral initial and continuing training funds in The Netherlands)
  Drs. Willem A. Houtkoop, Max Goote Kenniscentrum (Max Goote Expert Centre), Amsterdam

12:45 pm  Lunch break

2:00 pm  

• Branchenspezifische Berufsbildungsfonds:  Ein neues Instrument im Berufsbildungssystem der Schweiz
  (Sector-specific vocational training funds: A new instrument in the Swiss vocational training system)
  Dani Duttweiler, Bundesamt für Berufsbildung und Technologie BBT (Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology OPET), Berne

2:45 pm  

• Fondsfinanzierte Berufsausbildung im deutschen Gerüstbauhandwerk
  (Fund-financed vocational training in Germany's scaffolding trade)
  Günther Schmidt, Sozialkasse des Gerüstbauhandwerks (social security benefits office for the scaffolding trade), Wiesbaden

3:30 pm  Coffee break

4:00 pm  

• Praxis und Perspektiven von Qualifizierungstarifverträgen
  (Collective agreements for vocational training - Day-to-day practice and outlooks)
  Dr Reinhard Bahnmüller, Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit, Technik und Kultur (Research Institute for Labour, Technology and Culture), University of Tübingen

4:45 pm

• Pro und Contra Qualifizierungstarifverträge
  (Pros and cons of collective agreements for training)
  Table talk:
  Mechthild Bayer, ver.di, Berlin
  Dr Knut Diekmann, DIHK (Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce), Berlin
  

1.5 Flexibility and open structuring - elements of a pilot project programme

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Chaired by: Gisela Westhoff, BIBB, Bonn
 
This working group will focus on innovation transfer and the sustainability of ongoing pilot projects being conducted as part of the joint Latitude for Flexibility in Initial and Continuing Vocational Training ('Flexibility') pilot project programme and related research and development initiatives. This work revolves around expanding the vocational training range and making VET more flexible, following the principle of providing vocational training for specific, defined occupations. The latitude for greater flexibility in the way training is structured which was incorporated into the new training regulations offers enterprises a way to meet the challenges arising from change by offering suitable vocational training. Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular - where 80 per cent of our trainees undergo in-house vocational training - frequently do not have a training management system. These companies make an enormous contribution to in-house vocational training and must be supported by their partners in the 'dual' vocational training system - schools and education providers.

The results of selected projects will be presented, giving insights into the ongoing processes in innovative research, development, testing and transfer activities.

The theme 'flexibility and open structuring' will centre on the effects that ever-faster economic and societal change has on vocational education and training and the innovative solutions that enterprises have developed in co-operation with education service providers and vocational schools.

Working Group 5 will be set up as a platform for exchanging information on experience gathered and as an 'innovation forum'. It will also serve as a venue for the transfer of information by providing insights into the work of the individual experiments and the Flexibility programme, by supporting this programme's linking with other programmes and initiatives and by contributing to 'structuring open-structured vocational training'.

The discussion on the Flexibility programme's implementation and progressive development will give centre stage to the following aspects, examined from the standpoint of the tool 'pilot projects':

• the new role of skilled workers who work as instructors
• new learning concepts (self-organised learning in combination with traditional forms of learning, e-learning)
• collaboration in pilot projects (sponsors, accompaning research, specialist support) and in the joint Flexibility programme
• co-operation between the individual pilot projects and with other projects 
• establishment and stabilisation of networks
• external education management 
• education providers and other partners to SMEs - new forms of learning venue co-operation
• expansion of long-term transfer work: internal / external, regional / national and international
• structuring German vocational training offerings to ensure greater 'connectivity' at international level in general and at European level in particular, on the basis a transnational dialogue.

Two publications are currently being prepared from the work being done by the Flexibility programme. These two publications will be published in time for the 5th BIBB Congress and will provide an account of the current status of this co-operation and of the work being done in the individual projects.
Handouts will be used if necessary to provide information about any very recent developments at short notice.

The papers that will be given in this working group will provide input for the subsequent discussions. They will raise at least two questions for the working group's discussions and thus ensure that the working group serves as a platform for the exchange of information on experience gathered and as an information forum.

Programme

9:00 am   

• Welcome
  Gisela Westhoff, BIBB, Bonn

 9:05 am

• Einführung: Modellversuche als Instrument in der gestaltungsoffenen Berufsbildung
  (Introduction: pilot projects as an instrument in open-structured vocational training)
  Ursula Peter, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
  

9:15 am 

• Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen prägen die (berufliche) Bildung - Möglichkeiten transnationaler Kooperation
  (Societal changes shape (vocational) education and training - the possibilities of transnational cooperation)
  Professor Dr Ben Hövels, Kenniscentrum Beropsonderwijs Arbeidsmarkt (Knowledge Centre for Vocational Training & Labour Market), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  

9:35 am   

• Gestaltungsoffene Berufsbildung und ihre Folgen - ein sozialwissenschaftlicher Blick auf der Basis der Handlungsforschung
  (Open-structured vocational training and its implications - a sociological look based on action research)
  Professor Dr Helmut Ernst, Schweriner Ausbildungszentrum (Schwerin Training Centre), Hochschule Wismar (University of Technology, Business and Design)

9:55 am   

• Ausbildende Fachkräfte aus KMU in Aus- und Weiterbildungsnetzwerken - neue Profile in der Lernortkooperation
  (Skilled worker-instructors from SMEs in initial and continuing vocational training networks - new profiles in learning venue cooperation)
  Professor Dr Günter Albrecht, Gesellschaft zur Förderung von Bildungsforschung und Qualifizierung mbH (GEBIFO), Berlin 

10:15 am 

• Discussion

10:30 am Coffee break

11:00 am   

• KMU als Partner von Bildungsdienstleistern in Modellversuchen - Sicherung von Qualität und Quantität in der beruflichen Bildung
  (SMEs as partners to education service providers in pilot projects - ensuring quality and quantity in vocational education and training)
  Petra Zemlin, ProteGe, GmbH, Greiz
  Gabriele Marchl, Institut für sozialwissenschaftliche Beratung isob GmbH, Wenzenbach
  

11:20 am   

• Gestaltungsoffene Berufsbildung fördert Innovationen im Handwerk - Modellversuche zur Flexibilität
  (Open-structured vocational training fosters innovation in the trades - pilot projects on flexibility)
  Mark Sebastian Pütz, Zentralstelle für die Weiterbildung im Handwerk - ZWH (central office for continuing training in the trades), Düsseldorf
  Wolfgang Ritt, Elektro-Technologie-Zentrum (etz, electrical engineering center), Stuttgart
  Wilhelm Termath, Fraunhofer Society, University of Magdeburg

11:40 am   

• Kompetenzenbilanz und berufsbiografische Gestaltungsfähigkeit - transnationaler Transfer von Modellversuchsergebnissen
  (Skills inventories and the capacity to shape one's own occupational biography - The transnational transfer of pilot project findings)
  Claudia Munz, Gesellschaft für Ausbildungsforschung und Berufsentwicklung GmbH - GAB , Munich
  Elisabeth Portz-Schmitt, Handwerkskammer Rheinhessen (Rhine-Hessian Chamber of Handicrafts), Mainz

12:00 pm 

• Dokumentation und Zertifizierung informeller Lernprozesse - Best practice im Kontext europäischer Berufsbildung
  (Documentation and certification of informal learning processes - best practice in the context of European vocational education and training)
  Dr Gerald Sailmann, Ursula Krings, Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung gGmbH (f-bb, a vocational training think tank), Nuremberg
  Gabriele Fietz, Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung gGmbH (f-bb), Nuremberg
  

12:20 pm

• Discussion

12:30 pm  Lunch break

2:00 pm 

• Transfer durch Zusammenarbeit - Weiterentwicklung des Gedankens der Gestaltungsoffenheit und der Flexibilisierung aus dem Programm für die berufliche Bildung
  (Transfer through co-operation - The progressive development of the concept of open structures and the incorporation of greater flexibility from the programme for vocational education and training)
  Gisela Westhoff, BIBB, Bonn

2:20 pm 

• Panel discussion (which will also be open to the audience): Berufsbildung im Wandel
  (Vocational training in the process of change)
  How can the political sector in general and initial and continuing VET partners in particular help firms to adapt the in-house initial and continuing vocational training that they provide their employees to the changes taking place in our modern-day society and economic system and the resulting changes in production and service processes.
  To what extent have the 28 pilot projects contributed to modularisation and what observable effects has this had on the modernisation of Germany's 'dual' vocational training system?
   
  Panelists:
  Peter Munk, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
  Bernd Eckert, Bildungswerk für berufsbezogene Aus- und Weiterbildung Thüringen gGmbH (BWAW), Erfurt
  Professor Dr Ben Hövels, Kenniscentrum Beroepsonderwijs Arbeidsmarkt (Knowledge Centre for Vocational Training & Labour Market), Nijmegen
  Bertram Wolf, Zukunftszentrum (Future Centre), Innsbruck
  Wolfgang Oppel, member of the DGB national executive committee (Confederation of German Trade Unions), Berlin
  Dr Michael Unger, Dr.-Ing. Paul Christiani GmbH & Co. KG, Constance
  Elmar Süß, Berufsbildungsverein Annaberg e.V.(Annaberg Vocational Training Association), Annaberg
  Professor Dr Klaus Jenewein, University of Magdeburg
  Wilfried Malcher, Hauptverband des deutschen Einzelhandels (umbrella organisation for the German retail trade), Berlin
  Professor Dr Thomas Stahl, Institut für sozialwissenschaftliche Beratung isob GmbH, Regensburg
   
  Chaired by: Dr Dagmar Israel, ATB Arbeit, Technik und Bildung GmbH,  Chemnitz

1.6 Developing occupational competences - work process oriented continuing training

Thursday, 13 September 2007

Chaired by: Hans Weißmann and Dr Peter Wordelmann, BIBB, Bonn

The IT sector implemented this new concept in 2003/2004. What has day-to-day experience shown? What are the concept's implications for training and examinations? Can the concept be applied in other European countries? What aspects of this concept can be transferred to other sectors?
Programme

9:00 am   

• Welcome and introduction
  Hans Weißmann, BIBB, Bonn
  Dr Peter Wordelmann, BIBB, Bonn
  • IT-Ausbildung in Deutschland und APO-IT aus Sicht des BITKOM
    Karrierewege mit/ohne Bachelor/Master auch für Berufsabsolventen
    (IT training in Germany and work-process-oriented continuing IT training from the vantage point of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media  e.V. [BITKOM]
    Career paths with/without a bachelor's or master's degree, also for individuals who have completed formal vocational training for a specific occupation)
  • Das Modell APO-IT: passend für EQR?
    Das IT-Branchenkonzept und der EQR
    (The work-process-oriented continuing IT training model: suitable for the EQF?
    The IT sector concept and the EQF)
    Dr Stephan Pfisterer, Berufsbildung, BITKOM (German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media  e.V.), Berlin
  • Zertifizierung der IT-Specialists nach DIN EN ISO 17024 - idealer Berufs-Kompetenzcheck?
    Drei Jahre Praxiserfahrungen mit dem neuen Prüfungsmodell Personalzertifizierung
    (Certifying IT specialists under DIN EN ISO 17024 - the ideal occupational competence check?
    Three years of practical experience with the personnel certification testing model)
  • Welche Kompetenzen belegen Herstellerzertifikate?
    APO-IT meets Cisco and others
    (Which competences do manufacturer certificates verify?
    Work-process-oriented continuing IT training meets Cisco and others)
    Stefan Grunwald, Cert-IT, Berlin
  • APO-IT: Personalqualifizierung und -entwicklung bei der Deutschen Telekom AG aus Arbeitnehmersicht
    Betriebliche und gewerkschaftliche Akzeptanz des neuen Ansatzes, Betriebsvereinbarungen, individuelle Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten, Zugänge und Perspektiven zu geplanten Karrieremodellen STEP UP und GO AHEAD
    (Work-process-oriented continuing IT training: personnel training and development at Deutsche Telekom AG from the employees' point of view
    Company and union acceptance of the new approach, company agreements, individual development opportunities, access to and outlooks for the planned STEP UP and GO AHEAD career models)
    Wilfried Pater, ver.di trade union, DTAG Training, Bonn
  • Betriebliche und berufliche (APO)-Weiterbildung kein Selbstläufermodell
    Weiterbildungsstrategien von/für Beschäftigte/Vorgesetzte/Betriebsrat
    (In-company and vocational (work-process-oriented) continuing training is not a model that will function on its own momentum
    Continuing training strategies from/for employees/ superiors / works councils)
    Andrea Baukrowitz, Technical University of Darmstadt

11:00 am  Coffee break

11:30 am   

• Chancen für die Kompetenzanrechnung ausgelotet: das Beispiel Medien- und Veranstaltungstechnische Berufe
  Welchen Bedarf an Kompetenzen haben die Betriebe in der Medienbranche?
  Welche dieser beruflichen Kompetenzen können von Hochschulen angerechnet werden?
  Dr Lutz Michel, MMB Kompetenzforschung, Essen
• Neue Kompetenzen braucht der Meister m/w
  (Master tradesmen / tradeswomen need new competences)
  Professor Dr Margit Frackmann, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Leibniz University of Hanover)

12:30 pm  Lunch break

2:00 pm 

• Neue Kompetenzwege für Industrie-Facharbeiter
  IG Metall und Fachverbände entwickeln neue Karrieremuster als Antwort auf neue Arbeitsorganisation - Alternativen zum Industriemeister m/w in der Elektroindustrie
  (New paths to competences for skilled industrial workers
  The IG Metall trade union and and trade associations are developing new career patterns in response to the new ways of organising work - alternatives to the occupation industrial master craftsman / craftswoman in electrical engineering)
  Frank Gerdes, Vocational Training Field, IG Metall trade union, Frankfurt/Main
• Die neue Mikro-Technologen-Fortbildung = wissens- und kompetenzorientiert
  Drei neue Weiterbildungsprofile bauen auf den Beruf Mikrotechnologen und den Arbeitsprozess in der Chip-Industrie
  (The new continuing vocational training for microtechnologists = knowledge-oriented and competence-oriented
  New continuing vocational training profiles build on the occupation Microtechnologist and one the work processes in the chip industry)
  Hans Borch, BIBB, Bonn
  Claus Drewes, Vocational Training Field, IG Metall trade union, Frankfurt/Main
• Sind berufliche Weiterbildung und ein Hochschul-Abschluss kompatibel?
  Beispiele einer gelungenen Durchlässigkeit, Ergebnisse aus der BMBF-Initiative ANKOM
  (Are continuing vocational training and a university degree compatible?
  Examples of successful permeability, findings from ANKOM, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  Ida Stamm-Riemer, Hochschul-Informations-System HIS (Higher Education Information System), Hanover
• Karrierewege zum Bachelor und Master auch für Berufsabsolventen, Beispiel IT
  Vom Azubi zum Master - ein erfolgreiches Modell in Dänemark
  (Career paths to bachelor's and master's degrees that are also open to individuals who have completed formal vocational training - a successful model in Denmark)
  Dr Sören Kristensen, Ph.D. TECHNE, Copenhagen

3:45 pm  Coffee break

4:00 pm 

• Aufstiegsfortbildung als Zertifizierungsprozess -Widerspruch oder neuer Standard?
  Praktizierte Zertifizierungsverfahren beruflicher Kompetenzen in verschiedenen Branchen werden vorgestellt und diskutiert
  (Upgrading training as a certification process - contradiction or a new standard?
  Actual certification processes for occupational competences in various sectors will be presented and discussed)
  Armin Jäger, University of Jena
• Berufliche Fortbildung und IHK-Prüfungen zwischen Bachelor und Arbeits-/Geschäftsprozess?
  Trägt das traditionelle Weiterbildungs- und Prüfungsmodell weiterhin oder muss es modifiziert werden?
  Was wären/sind die Alternativen?
  (Advanced vocational training and final examinations held by Chambers of Commerce and Industry between bachelor's degree programmes and work/business processes?
  Does the traditional continuing training and examination model still work or does it need to be modified?
  What are / could be the alternatives?)
  Jochen Reineke, Head of Section, DIHK (Association of Chambers of Industry and Commerce), Berlin
  Dr Klaus Heimann, Head of the Vocational Training Department, IG Metall trade union, Frankfurt/Main

5:45 pm  Summing up

Last modified on: June 15, 2007