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13/ 2010
Bonn, 08.04.2010
Win with continuing vocational education and training - Enter the competition for the 2011 WIP prize today!
Fostering innovative ideas in the field of continuing vocational education and training (CVET) 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 eleventh 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 once again include a special prize. The special prize in 2011 will be awarded for innovative continuing and further vocational training concepts that revolve around competence assessment in the continuing education and training field. Each award is endowed with € 2,500. The Minister President of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Stefan Mappus, is expected to be the patron for the competition. The award ceremony will be held at the didacta Trade Fair for Education and Training in Stuttgart in February 2011. The deadline for submission of entries for the WIP 2011 competition is 31 July 2010.
For more than ten years now, BIBB has contributed to the modernisation of and quality assurance in CVET and in-company continuing vocational training through its WIP award. BIBB invites education service providers, organisations, institutions and companies from Germany and abroad that have developed innovative concepts for CVET or in-company continuing vocational training to enter the competition for the 2011 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.
The theme of the 2011 special prize - competence assessment in the CVET field - is aimed first and foremost at enterprises, continuing education providers and advisory bodies that have developed or use innovative concepts for assessing competences. The submissions for the special prize must also outline the context in which the concept is used, such as its incorporation into skills development for individuals, in personnel development and vocational guidance activities or as the basis for recognising or crediting qualifications in advanced training programmes.
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 2010 prize-winners and the award ceremony held at the didacta education trade fair in Cologne is available at www.bibb.de/wip.
Forms and information on the conditions for entering the 2011 WIP competition can also be downloaded from www.bibb.de/wip.
You can also request these documents directly from BIBB:
. By e-mail: hunsdorf@bibb.de
. By telephone: +49 (0)228 / 107 2523
Please send your complete submission in duplicate by mail, postmarked no later than 31 July 2010, to:
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
Stichwort: "WIP 2011"
z. Hd. Frau Hunsdorf
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
53175 Bonn
Germany
For further details about the WIP award, please contact:
- 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
