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14/ 2009
Bonn, 14.04.2009
Win with continuing vocational education and training - Enter the competition for the 2010 WIP prize today!
Fostering innovative ideas in the field of continuing vocational training and in-company continuing vocational training, pointing the way for new developments and helping shape the future are the aims of the Innovation in Continuing Education Prize (WIP) which the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) will award this year for the tenth time. In addition to awarding five prizes for all issues or fields of continuing vocational training and in-company continuing vocational training, this year's competition will see the launch of a special prize for innovative continuing and further vocational training concepts that make a particular contribution to fostering greater permeability between vocational training and university education. All six awards are endowed with a prize money of € 2,500 each. The award ceremony will be held at the didacta Trade Fair for Education and Training in Cologne in March 2010. The Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr Jürgen Rüttgers, will be the patron for the ceremony. The deadline for submission of entries is 31 July 2009.
For ten years now, BIBB has contributed to the modernization and future of continuing vocational training and in-company continuing vocational training in Germany through its WIP award and the projects the WIP award fosters. BIBB invites education service providers, organizations, institutions and companies from Germany and abroad that have developed innovative concepts for continuing vocational training or in-company continuing vocational training to enter the competition for the 2010 WIP award.
Concepts must be aimed at teaching technical, personal, social or methodological competence. Concepts for pre-vocational training or vocational training for young people and concepts that are aimed exclusively at university graduates are not eligible for submission. The winners will be selected by an independent jury of experts. Last year 208 entries were submitted.
A new special prize will be awarded for the first time for this anniversary edition of the WIP competition. It will honour an innovative concept for continuing vocational training or in-company continuing vocational training or for vocational upgrading training that contributes to increasing the permeability between vocational training and university education.
Manfred Kremer, president of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB): "The political concept of lifelong learning assigns continuing education and training a key role so that jobs can be safeguarded and trade and industry are able to remain competitive. Skilled workers must able to cope with a wide variety of new challenges and advance in their occupation. This requires not only high-quality continuing vocational training opportunities but also greater permeability between vocational training and university education. The WIP Special Prize is being introduced in response to the particular importance of this issue. Future WIP competitions will also feature special focal themes."
The BIBB Innovation in Continuing Education Prize (WIP) is supported by the "managerSeminare" trade journal, the "Frankfurter Rundschau" newspaper and the Didacta Verband e.V. education industry association.
Information on the prize-winners and the 2009 award ceremony at the didacta education trade fair in Hanover is available on the BIBB website at www.bibb.de/de/50898.htm
Forms and information on the conditions for entering the 2010 WIP competition can be downloaded at www.bibb.de/de/1898.htm
You can also request these documents from BIBB
- By telephone: +49 (0) 228 / 107 2523
- By e-mail: hunsdorf@bibb.de
Please send your submission in duplicate by 31 July 2009 and only by post to:
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
Stichwort: WIP 2010
z. Hd. Frau Hunsdorf
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
53175 Bonn
Germany
For further details about the WIP award, please contact:
- Dr Robert Helmrich, Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 107 1132, E-mail: helmrich@bibb.de
- Ingrid Leppelmeier, Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 107 1130, E-mail: leppelmeier@bibb.de
- Hans-Joachim Schade, Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 107 1117, E-mail: schade@bibb.de
