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34/ 2011
Bonn, 12.07.2011
Win with continuing vocational education and training - Enter the competition for the 2012 WIP award today!
Competition with the theme In-Company Continuing Vocational Training for Older Workers
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 twelfth time. As a new feature, the competition will have a topical focal theme each year from now on. The theme for the 2012 WIP will be In-Company Continuing Education and Training for Older Workers. The 2012 WIP competition will award one prize with a prize money of € 2,500 and two prizes with a prize money of € 1,000 each. The Minister-President of the state of Lower Saxony, David McAllister, is expected to be the patron for the competition. The award ceremony will be held in February 2012 at the didacta Trade Fair for Education and Training in Hanover. The deadline for the submission of entries for the 2012 WIP competition is 15 September 2011.
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 enterprises, CVET providers and advisory bodies from Germany and other countries which have developed or use innovative concepts for in-company continuing vocational training for older workers to enter the competition for the 2012 WIP award. Examples of possible thematic areas for submissions include: older workers as forces for innovation, employability, the recruitment of skilled workers, working conditions, learning culture, personnel development and vocational guidance.
The concepts and campaigns submitted must be aimed at teaching technical, personal, social or methodological competence. The winners will be selected by an independent jury comprised of experts. The jury for the 2012 WIP award will additionally include for the first time a representative of the Cologne-based Marie-Luise and Ernst Becker Foundation since this foundation will be donating the prize money. The winners will also have an opportunity to present their award-winning submissions at a conference held by the Marie-Luise and Ernst Becker Foundation in the spring of 2012.
The BIBB Innovation in Continuing Education Prize (WIP) is supported by the Didacta Verband e.V. education industry association, the Marie-Luise and Ernst Becker Foundation, the "managerSeminare" trade journal and the "Frankfurter Rundschau" newspaper.
Information on the 2011 prize-winners and the award ceremony held at the didacta education trade fair in Stuttgart is available at www.bibb.de/wip .
Forms and information on the conditions for entering the 2012 WIP competition can also be downloaded from www.bibb.de/wip or requested directly from BIBB by e-mail at wip@bibb.de .
Please send your complete submission in duplicate by mail, postmarked no later than 15 September July 2011, to:
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
Stichwort "WIP 2012"
z. Hd. Frau Brigitte Keck
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
53175 Bonn
Germany
For further details regarding the 2012 WIP competition, please contact:
Angelika Puhlmann, Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 107 1119, E-mail: puhlmann@bibb.de
Brigitte Keck, Tel.: +49 (0) 228 / 107 1331, E-mail: keck@bibb.de
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