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08/ 2011
Bonn, 24.02.2011
Minister President Mappus and BIBB President Kremer award the "WIP 2011" to six prizewinners
Award ceremony for the 2011 Innovation in Continuing Education Prize at the didacta fair in Stuttgart:
Stefan Mappus, minister president of the state of Baden-Württemberg, and Manfred Kre¬mer, president of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), awarded the BIBB-sponsored 2011 Innovation in Continuing Education Prize (WIP 2011) to six prizewinners at the didacta Trade Fair for Education and Training in Stuttgart today.
With its Innovation in Continuing Education Prize - which it awarded this year for the eleventh time 0 BIBB singles out pioneering projects and initiatives which have made an outstanding contribution to continuing vocational training and continuing in-company vocational training with their innovative concepts. The award includes a cash prize of € 2,500 for each winning entry.
Stefan Mappus, minister president of the state Baden-Württemberg:
"Education is the heart of our political work. Our multitrack school system in Baden-Württemberg offers the means to recognise the individual's talents and foster children and youths adequately. Vocational training and lifelong learning are however also becoming in-creasingly important. The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training is a recog-nised centre of excellence for research on and the progressive development of initial and continuing vocational training. The Institute is an important partner and point of contact for us in Baden-Württemberg as well. Continuing vocational training not only offers everyone a chance for further occupational advancement, but also helps ensure that we have sufficient skilled workers in the future and, in the process, significantly helps ensure trade and industry's competitiveness."
Manfred Kremer, president of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training:
"With their innovative concepts, WIP prizewinners are outstanding examples for modern, pioneering continuing vocational training and continuing in-company vocational training. With their projects, they help train skilled workers, safeguard jobs and maintain businesses' com-petitive strength. I strongly hope that the winning concepts will induce many enterprises and facilities to devote more attention to the subject of continuing vocational training. Anyone who talks of lifelong learning must design and organise transition paths and connectivity between the different education sectors to ensure closer intermeshment and permeability between them. Continuing vocational training plays a key role in this connection."
Brief descriptions of the six 2011 WIP prizewinners from Aachen, Berlin/Rheine, Bondorf (in Baden-Württemberg), Karlsruhe, Nuremberg and Stuttgart are available in the attach-ment.
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Brief descriptions of the six winners of the 2011 Innovation in Continuing Education Prize (WIP 2011)
ABC zum Berufserfolg (The ABC to Professional Success)
Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung (f-bb) / Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Nuremberg
An estimated four million people in Germany are unable to read or write at the level that is required in today's society. These "functional" illiterates are at an enormous disadvantage in their participation in society and they are at high risk of being unemployed or poor. This project's integration and training model for vocationally-oriented basic education accommodates the special needs of this target group in an outstanding way. The jury commended the project's innovative combination of scientific research methods, its use of individualised guidance, and its teaching of literacy and basic education skills on a subject-specific basis and then testing them through practical placements in company work processes with the aim of re-integrating these people into society and the labour market. Linking theoretical learning with practical experience in a real company breaks down blocks to learning, boosts learning success and strengthens the individual's self-confidence.
Contact: Dr Kathleen Rothe, Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung (f-bb), Obere Turnstr. 8,
90429 Nuremberg, Tel.: +49 (0) 911 / 27779-57, Internet: www.f-bb.de
Talent Academy - Akademie für den Führungsnachwuchs (Academy for Junior Managers)
Mario Neumann, free-lance trainer and coach, Bondorf
The Talent Academy is an innovative one-year continuing training programme for selected junior managers in enterprises who have the potential for assuming managerial responsibilities in the medium term. The programme actively incorporates established managers from the respective participant's company. These managers contribute their expertise to the seminar modules on an ongoing basis. According to the jury, this concept sets itself apart by its high level of project and practical relevance. It systematically ascertains and develops participants' personal, methodological and social competences in an impressive way. For companies, this continuing training option offers the means to fill their management positions competently on an internal basis. The respective company's appreciation and high regard for the participants 0 which are expressed through the participants' selection for the programme 0 also foster the participants' motivation and increases their identification with their company.
Contact: Mario Neumann, Fichtenstraße 12, 71149 Bondorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 7457 / 94 86 001,
Internet: www.marioneumann.com
Weiterbildung zur Diabetesberaterin / zum Diabetesberater DDG (Continuing Training for the Occupation Diabetes Counsellor DDG)
Deutsche Diabetes-Gesellschaft (DDG) / German Diabetes Society, Berlin & Mathias Hochschule, Rheine
Between seven and eight million people in Germany suffer from Diabetes mellitus 0 and their number is growing. People with this chronic disease need special guidance and support to help them integrate the treatment they need into their day-to-day lives on their own on a lasting basis. This award-winning continuing training concept takes this as its starting point and develops it on a comprehensive, practical basis. This training programme (which is conducted on a part-time basis, parallel to the participant's regular job) is geared to actual occupational tasks and, in the jury's opinion, contributes in exemplary fashion to the differentiation between and professionalisation of people working in health care occupations. In the process, the programme sets new standards for the diabetes-related responsibilities of paramedical occupations in the diabetology field. This continuing training programme can also be credited toward the bachelor's degree programme in Diabetes and Health Management. As a result, the project makes a significant contribution toward the crediting of skills and toward greater permeability between different education pathways
Contact: Ethel Narbei, Mathias Hochschule Rheine, Frankenburgerstr. 31, 43481 Rheine, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 / 42 11 76, Internet: www.mhrheine.de
"Studiengang Unternehmertum (Entrepreneurship Degree Programme)
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe)
The aim of this bachelor's degree programme which is conducted parallel to the individual's regular job is to help young people acquire extensive entrepreneurial skills. The content and methods of this programme are specially geared to "management succession" in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This degree programme is split equally between classes at the university and practical work experience in an actual company. Theory and practice are linked with one another using interactive forms of learning and practical applications in the individual's company. The Entrepreneurship Degree Programme puts "graduate entrepreneurs" in a position to run a company in a professional and innovative way. In the jury's opinion, this project is an outstanding example for training that is specially geared to the needs of professionals in SMEs and to ensuring the transfer of theoretical knowledge into practice. The Entrepreneurship Degree Programme is part of the Zukunftssiche¬rungspro-gramm Fachhochschulen und Berufsakademien programme of the Baden-Württem¬berg Foundation.
Contact: Professor Dr Armin Pfannenschwarz, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg,
Campus Karlsruhe, Erzbergerstr. 121, 76133 Karlsruhe, Tel.: + 49 (0) 721 / 9735-953, Internet: www.studiengang-unternehmertum.de
VIPOL - Virtuelles Training für Polizeieinsatzkräfte (Virtual Training for Police Officers)
Ministry of the Interior of the state Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Today, it is almost impossible to conduct many "real" training units due to the enormous cost and time they involve as well as the sizable potential risks they entail. As an alternative, VIPOL - a so-called "serious game" - uses interactive/virtual training scenarios to augment the practical exercises used by the police. As part of this pilot project, the police use computers to practise, for example, how ground forces can work effectively and smoothly with crews in police helicopters during deployments. With VIPOL, all police officers in Baden-Württemberg have virtual continuing training and practice scenarios at their disposal that prepare them for real operations on an optimal basis. These scenarios are unique in Europe. This virtual training infrastructure stands out for its high level of complexity and variability. The jury was particularly impressed by VIPOL's sophisticated 3D technology, its broad range of multimedia features such as the use of avatars and its real-world team communication.
Contact: Polizeioberrat Uwe Seidel, Innenministerium Baden-Württemberg,
Landespolizeipräsidium, Referat 33 - POLIZEI-ONLINE, Dorotheenstr. 6, 70173 Stuttgart, Tel.: +49 (0) 711 / 231-3356, Internet: www.polizei-online.de
Special prize for the area of "competence assessment in the continuing education and training field":
The Tour Planner
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen - RWTH Aachen University
This prize-winning concept 0 a strategic management game 0 revolves around the assessment and measurement of planning competence which is important in the development of occupational competence. The aim is to diagnose the planning competence of people who work in the occupational rehabilitation field in order to derive from this information recommendations for decisions on the choice of occupation and information regarding further training needs or retraining programmes. Participants are given the practical assignment of planning, within a set period of time, a sightseeing tour through a fictitious city, on paper or with the the help of a computer. The data gathered from this is used to calculate a score which provides information about the participant's planning level. The jury particularly praised the valid, objective measuring system which satisfies all scientific quality criteria. The Tour Planner is currently being used at ten vocational retraining centres in Germany. It is already being tested at the initial vocational training level as well.
Contact: Dr Viktoria Arling, RWTH Aachen, Institut für Psychologie, 52056 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 / 80 93 992,
Internet: www.psych.rwth-aachen.de
