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08/ 2012
Bonn, 15.02.2012
Instigation of the "Friedrich-Edding-Preis" for vocational education and training research
The best dissertations to be recognised
The Vocational Education and Training Research Network (AG BFN) is awarding the "Friedrich-Edding-Preis" for vocational education and training research for the first time. The prize will be awarded biannually in future and will recognise outstanding dissertations from various academic research disciplines which address VET issues. The aim of the AG BFN in instigating the "Friedrich-Edding-Preis" is to help to foster up-and-coming academic research talent. Dissertations should relate to practical applications, should integrate various disciplinary approaches and must not be more than two years old. Both theoretically aligned and empirically based work may be submitted. The closing date for applications is 30 June 2012. The prize ceremony will take place as part of a specialist academic research conference to be staged by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) in the autumn of 2012.
Dissertations submitted will be assessed by an independent jury comprising the following professors from a range of academic research disciplines.
- Prof. Dr. Karin Büchter (Helmut Schmidt University, University of the German Army, Hamburg)
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Euler (University of St. Gallen)
- Prof. Dr. Reinhold Nickolaus (University of Stuttgart)
- Prof. Dr. Peter F. E. Sloane (University of Paderborn)
- Prof. Dr. Heike Solga (Social Science Research Centre Berlin)
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Weber (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Wolter (University of Bern)
The AG BFN was founded in 1991. It comprises a network of academic researchers from institutes of higher education and from public and private institutions who work within various academic research disciplines to provide contributions to VET research. The aims are to improve academic research cooperation, to support the exchange of research results, opinions and experiences and to identify relevant fields of research. The following organisations are members of the AG BFN.
- The Vocational and Business Education Section at the German Educational Research Association
- Various privately and publicly funded research institutes
- Institutions of the federal states which are responsible for the area of vocational schools
- The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) at the Federal Employment Agency
- The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
The newly instigated prize is named in honour of Friedrich Edding (1909 - 2002), who was for many years Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Professor of Educational Economics at the Technical University of Berlin.
Further information on conditions of entry is provided on the AG BFN website at http://www.agbfn.de/.
Applications should be submitted to:
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB)
Attn. Dr. Christina Widera
Ref. "Friedrich Edding Prize"
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3
53175 Bonn
E-mail: widera@bibb.de
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