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31/ 2011
Bonn, 22.06.2011
BIBB to fund new pilot projects for quality development of company-based vocational education and training
Federal Government makes 5 million euro available
As the number of school leavers continues to fall, companies will need to undertake greater endeavours to acquire trainees and secure a supply of young skilled workers. The quality of vocational education and training will play an increasingly significant role in future for companies seeking to present themselves to young people as attractive training providers. Ten new pilot projects to be funded by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) and to be initiated nationwide will address the issue of how such quality can be secured and developed further, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is making around 5 million euro available for this purpose over the course of the next few years. The projects will further develop the quality of company-based VET by optimising existing communication and cooperation structures. They will design and pilot new measures and instruments as well as developing new training concepts for training staff. The focus of the new pilot projects will be broadly based, involving a wide range of branches and stakeholders such as craft trade and industrial companies, old-age care homes and educational institutions. For BIBB, this constitutes an important prerequisite in terms of achieving the widest possible degree of scope for transfer of results.
The following individual projects will be funded in the craft trades sector.
- The Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg will develop and pilot new instruments, feedback systems and methods of learning process support in order to develop further the quality of training in the craft trade occupation of painter and varnisher (contact: Helmut Schmidt Uni¬versity, Professor Karin Büchter, buechter@hsu-hh.de).
- A joint project undertaken by the Central Agency for Continuing Vocational Education and Training in the Skilled Crafts (ZWH) in Düsseldorf and the Hanover Chamber of Crafts and Trades will focus on training for training staff and advanced training for training advisors (contact: ZWH e.V., Dr. Beate Kramer, bkramer@zwh.de).
- The Innovation Transfer and Research Institute (ITF) and the Schwerin District Craft Trades Association will join forces to initiate a cross-trade exchange of experiences on training issues and will develop criteria for the awarding of a Quality Prize. The aim here is to improve training practice in craft trade companies (contact: itf Schwerin e.V., Pamela Buggenhagen, p.buggenhagen@itf-schwerin.de).
- The Grundig Academy of Business and Technology in Nuremberg will develop and pilot a holistic and learning oriented quality management system in SME's (con¬tact: Grundig Academy of Business and Technology, Werner Böhner, boehner@grundig-akademie.de).
- In future, trainers will need to deal with trainees who have very different levels of prior learning. For this reason, the University of Erfurt is developing a new training concept which will accord greater consideration to these challenges (contact: University of Erfurt, Professor Manfred Eckert, manfred.eckert@uni-erfurt.de).
- The Academy of Advanced Business Training (FAW) and the company "Work, Technology and Education" (ATB) from Chemnitz will work with company managers, training staff and trainees in quality circles to develop new standards for company-based vocational education and training (contact: FAW, Dr. Georg Gräßler, chemnitz@faw.de).
- The Quality Coordination Agency (k.o.s.) and the ABB Training Centre in Berlin will come together to develop a training quality model for companies. Joint work will subsequently be undertaken with all those involved in the training process to formulate development goals and to draw up and pilot instruments and procedures for company quality assurance (contact: k.o.s GmbH, Christel Weber, c.weber@kos-qualitaet.de).
- How can quality-assured training be provided in the old-age care sector in future against the background of demographic developments and in the light of the particular situation in the branch to which this will give rise? This is an issue to be addressed by the Munich branch of the Institute for Gerontological Research, which will conduct a project in the three pilot regions of Bavaria, Brandenburg and North Rhine-Westphalia (contact: IGF Munich, Tina Knoch, knoch@igfberlin.de).
- The Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) for the Lake Constance-Upper Swabia Region will develop the trainee report book into an overall written record of training. This will enable the training process and the current status of training to be mapped in a comprehensible manner at any given time (contact: IHK Lake Constance-Upper Swabia, Markus Brunnbauer, brunnbauer@weingarten.ihk.de).
- The main focus of the pilot project to be conducted by the Association for Research and Development in Vocational Training and Occupations (GAB) in Munich will be on the quality of relationships between training staff and trainees. The GAB will also develop new training concepts for those who have completed the new advanced training courses leading to the qualifications of Certified Vocational Educator or Certified Vocational Educator for Initial and Continuing Training (contact: GAB Munich, Professor Michael Brater, info@gab-muenchen.de).
Points of contact at BIBB for further information:
Sigrid Bednarz, Tel.: 0228/107-1748, e-mail: bednarz@bibb.de
Dr. Dorothea Schemme, Tel.: 0228/107-1512, e-mail: schemme@bibb.de
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