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Dear Reader,

This issue of the BIBB News marks the end of the first year of this new publication.
This newsletter regards itself as a contribution that the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is making toward jointly addressing the challenges arising from the growing internationalisation - and, particularly, the growing Europeanisation - of vocational education and training. BIBB is a centre of excellence for all matters involving vocational education and training in Germany and as such it plays a leading role in discharging the tasks associated with this process and makes the findings from its work and research projects available to international experts through the BIBB News.

The BIBB News reports not only on BIBB's contributions to the Europeanisation of vocational education and training. It also provides data and information on other important issues in day-to-day vocational training practice, on matters involving the vocational training market, on the costs and benefits of vocational education and training and on numerous other topical areas of initial and continuing vocational training in Germany.
We will continue in our efforts to let you share in our experience, insights and ideas.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a good 2010.

Your BIBB News Team

Minister visits Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training in Bonn

Federal Minister of Education ANNETTE SCHAVAN paid a visit to BIBB in Bonn on 3 November 2009, directly after the start of the new legislative period. The discussions the minister held with senior management at the institute centred on the vocational training policy resolutions contained within the coalition agreement and on the involvement of BIBB in implementing policy over the course of the next four years. The main focuses of attention were the situation on the training market and a greater degree of internationalisation for the vocational education and training system.

Read more Schavan: "Quality pact for training in Germany"

Making use of the impetuses emerging from European projects

Gesa Münchhausen, Ulrike Schröder

Results of the 2009 Continuing Training Monitor (wbmonitor)

Stefan Koschek

Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weiß, Deputy President and Head of Research at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn

All quiet on the eastern front?
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, vocational training is facing enormous challenges

Klaus Troltsch, Günter Walden, Susanne Zopf

BIBB lays cornerstone for cooperation with Columbia
http://www.bibb.de/en/52906.htm

BIBB trainees back from first exchange in France
http://www.bibb.de/en/52596.htm

BIBB at WorldDidac Asia in Bangkok
http://www.bibb.de/en/52878.htm

Collaboration with Thailand on the issue of the costs and benefits of vocational training for enterprises
http://www.bibb.de/en/52912.htm

1-2 February 2010 | Düsseldorf
"It must yield a good return" - Motives and motivations in work-related basic education
The GiWA project group would like to invite you to the GiWA Findings Transfer Workshop. At this workshop you will become acquainted with subject-oriented basic training concepts that developed in various contexts and are anchored in enterprises and facilities devoted to ensuring the transfer of knowledge to the workplace. In this connection we will present various learning and guidance settings with their relevant learning content and with methods and forms of learning that are compatible with follow-on training. Experience, tips, findings on indicators for the quality of subject-oriented, work-process-related basic training concepts and settings from all GiWA sub-projects will be presented for discussion. We want to examine not only questions regarding how company-based and occupation-related basic training can be organised, we also want to look at questions concerning the conditions - beyond project funding and project assistance - that are necessary for success.

3 February 2010 | Federal Press Office Berlin
Final conference for the transdisciplinary project BI-FONA Wald - Industry, Research, Politics and Education Working Hand-in-Hand for Greater Sustainability 
This project was conducted by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) under the Sustainable Forestry funding priority of the Research for Sustainable Development (FONA) funding programme sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Transdisciplinary issues such as education and communication were embedded in collaborative research projects - a novelty in this funding priority.
This BIBB project had the aim of putting innovative products and findings from collaborative projects to use for the benefit of vocational education and training, organising the transfer of findings to day-to-day vocational practice and transferring findings and experience from day-to-day vocational practice to the collaborative research groups. The Berlin Forest and Wood pilot region was set up to enable the direct implementation of research questions of relevance to day-to-day practice.
We would like to discuss the experience and findings gathered in the course of this project with you in order to strengthen the outlooks for the research community, political sector, industry and the vocational training field participating in constructive collaboration for sustainable development and in order to ascertain the need for action in connection with the exchange between the research community, industry and vocational training practitioners.

8 - 9 February 2010 | Ev. Akademie Hofgeismar
Occupation-based employment - Social and adult-education developments

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