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25/ 2011
Bonn, 23.05.2011
BIBB President Esser: "Structuring transitions in a more effective way - professionalising and networking skilled workers"
Specialist conference staged by BIBB and the Robert Bosch Foundation on the transition from school to working life
"As far as the transition to vocational education and training is concerned, it is important to tailor teaching and learning and special support provision available in schools more closely to the needs of young people. Within this process, vocational orientation and vocational preparation are becoming ever more significant for general education", explains Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) President Professor Friedrich Hubert Esser, speaking at the opening of the specialist conference "Professionalising skilled workers: challenges at the transition from school to working life". "Sustainable transition management can only be established on the ground if parents, schools, trade and industry and employment agencies all work together as a regional educational network."
Dr. Kurt W. Liedtke, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Robert Bosch Foundation, emphasises: "we require the creativity and potential of every single young person. To this end, we need to open up prospects for young people making the transition from school to the world of work. Strengthening skilled workers to meet this aim will enable us to face up to this current challenge and to make an investment in the future."
The topic of the two-day event, which will be staged in Bonn and is jointly organised by BIBB and the Robert Bosch Foundation, is the professionali¬sation and networking of the skilled workers who support young people moving from school to employment. The conference has brought together around 200 VET experts from the Federal Government, the federal states and local government and will present initial results from two projects which address this thematic area from different perspectives:
- the BIBB research project "Requirements for the professionalism of educational staff at the transition from school to the world of work" (see www.bibb.de/bildungspersonal-uebergang , German language resource);
- the skilled worker programme "Professionalisation for facilitating transitions
in vocational training and employment", initiated by the Robert Bosch Foundation and part of the "LISA" Programme (Local Initiatives for the Integration of Young Immigrants in Vocational Training and Employment)
(English language information available at http://www.bosch-stiftung.de/content/language2/html/32916.asp ).
Documentation of the conference will shortly be made available on the BIBB website at www.bibb.de .
Background information
The Robert Bosch Foundation is one of Germany's largest foundations associated with a private company. It was established in 1964 and seeks to continue the charitable endeavours of the company's founder Robert Bosch (1861-1942), who endowed the foundation. The Robert Bosch Foundation mainly focuses on the thematic areas of international understanding, education and health. It is also involved with a number of other societal topics
(see www.bosch-stiftung.de, where information in English is also available).
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is the recognised centre of competence for the research and further development of initial and continuing vocational education and training in Germany. BIBB identifies future VET tasks, promotes innovations in both national and international vocational education and training and develops new, practically oriented solutions for in-company initial and continuing training (see website at www.bibb.de, where information in English is also available).
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