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23/ 2010
Bonn, 10.06.2010
Prize for Innovation in Continuing Education and Training (WIP) 2011: innovative continuing training concepts rewarded!
The supply of up-and-coming young talent for German companies is drying up, bringing an impending shortage of skilled workers. At the same time, those in employment need to remain competitive and be introduced to the changing requirements of the world of work. For this reason, the demand for innovative continuing training concepts is greater than ever before as companies compete to recruit the most creative workers, to tap into the available reserves of talent and to secure the employment service of older people. The Prize for Innovation in Continuing Education and Training (WIP), which is organised by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training and will be conferred for the eleventh time in 2011, aims to promote such provision in the field of in-company and continuing training, to generate impetuses for new developments and to help shape the future. And taking part is very much worthwhile: the six best concepts will each win cash prizes of €2,500. Five of the prizes awarded will cover the whole spectrum of topics related to continuing vocational or in-company education and training. There will also once again be a WIP Special Prize for innovative concepts which in 2011 will be dedicated to the field of "Competence assessment in continuing training". Time is, however, running out. The deadline for entries is 31 July 2010.
The competition is open to training services providers, organisations, institutions and companies from home and abroad which have developed innovative concepts in the field of continuing vocational or in-company education and training. The provision must relate to the imparting of specialist, personnel, social or methodological competences. Concepts relating to prevocational training or initial vocational education and training for young people and concepts targeted exclusively at higher education graduates are ineligible.
The Prime Minister of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Stefan Mappus, has agreed to act as patron of the WIP 2011. Prime Minister Mappus will join BIBB President Manfred Kremer when the prizes themselves are awarded during a ceremony at the "didacta" Education Fair, which takes place in Stuttgart between 22 and 26 February 2011. Reports on the prize winners and winning concepts will appear in the press, in specialist periodicals and on the Internet.
Terms and conditions of entry and entry forms for the WIP 2011 are available for download at www.bibb.de/wip.
The BIBB Prize for Innovation in "Continuing Education and Training" is sponsored by the Didacta Educational Association, the "Frankfurter Rundschau" newspaper and the specialist periodical "managerSeminare".
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