Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Project: Three clinics - two countries - one course of study "Bachelor of Nursing"

Prize winner: Evangelical Hospital, Klinikum Oldenburg gGmbH, Pius Hospital, Oldenburg

The continuing training concept developed by the Hanseatic Institute founded by the three Oldenburg clinics working in conjunction with a Dutch institute of higher education improves the quality of care provision and patient satisfaction and increases the attractiveness of the nursing profession. Experienced nursing staff are trained to take on new, more responsible functions in middle management or in intensive care by undertaking the innovative course of study on an in-service basis. The project exemplifies successful transnational cooperation between companies and institutes of higher education and permeability between vocational training and higher education.

Contact: Frauke Wiedermann, Tel.: 0441 / 36189352
e-mail: wiedermann@hanse-institut-ol.de;  
Internet: http://www.hanse-institut-ol.de/

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Project: e-learning for craft trades: "Overcoming conflicts in training and in the company"

Prize winner: State Association for the Promotion of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in North Rhine-Westphalian Craft Trades, Düsseldorf

This prize winning project approaches the sensitive topic of "dealing with conflicts", an issue which is often emotionally charged and a source of trepidation, with the help of an innovative and successful e-learning concept. Five learning units featuring typical cases of conflict from craft trades practice raise awareness of the topic via the high proportion of interactive tasks they contain and encourage participants to address their own conflict behaviour. The project is making an important contribution towards reducing the high number of contractual terminations which occur in training and employment as the result of conflicts.

Contact: Thomas Waxweiler, Tel.: 0211 / 30108-390
e-mail: waxweiler@lgh.de
Internet: http://www.lgh.de/

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Project: Fibre composite plastics practitioners

Prize winner: Plastics Continuing Training Partnership lead managed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM), Bremen

Training employees to deal with innovative fibre composite plastics strengthens the national and international competitive position of the plastics manufacturing industry. The sectors particularly affected here are wind energy power plant construction, shipbuilding, the automotive sector, aviation and aerospace. The contents of this four-week training course, which has been designed by trade and industry practitioners and academic researchers, have been adapted to the requirements of the companies and of the market. 180 participants have successfully completed the course since May 2007. From 2009, four additional one-week course modules will facilitate improved and more flexible integration of the continuing training into the companies' business processes.

Contact: Dr. Silke Mai, Plastics Competence Centre Bremen and Bremerhaven, Tel.: 0421 / 22 46-400;
e-mail: silke.mai@ifam.fraunhofer.de
Internet: http://www.kunststoff-in-bremen.de/

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Project: Fit for company succession

Prize winner: Lower Lusatian District Craft Trade Workers Association, Finsterwalde

This is a joint initiative by companies, regional craft trades organisations and schools which offers high-ability trainees and journeymen an additional training or in-service qualification leading to the advanced training qualification of "Certified Senior Technician". This is recognised as Part 3 of a subsequent master craftsman training course, which should ideally follow. The training course is based on company sponsorships and provides incentives and assistance in overcoming the growing challenges facing the Elbe-Elster Valley and the Lower Spree Forest area of Lusatia, in finding suitable company successors and in retaining young skilled workers within the region.

Contact: Ellen Lösche, Tel.: 03531 / 718784, e-mail: info@finsterwalde-khw.de

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Project: Re-entry to the labour market via networking

Prize winner: Supervisory and Service Directorate of the Rhineland Palatinate

In its capacity as a family friendly local authority, the Rhineland Palatinate Agricultural Office offers continuing training courses delivering exemplary organisational provision and addressing the topics of parental leave, integration and occupational development of skilled staff returning to work and company knowledge management. The prize winning concept reflects the interests of the varied collection of "comeback" groups involved by offering a flexible and individualised blended learning course supported by company sponsors and a distance learning tutor. The focus is on improving participants' self-directed learning skills and their ability to deal with new media. Effective group work serves as a vehicle for the imparting of specialist content and for promoting readiness to make greater use of the network to share knowledge with one another.

Contact: Beate Bimmer, Tel.: 0261 / 120-2658
e-mail: beate.bimmer@addko.rlp.de
Internet: http://www.add.rlp.de/

Last modified on: February 27, 2009