Pilot projects
Pilot projects outside schools - Instrument for innovation in initial and continuing vocational education and training
During the last 30 years, pilot projects that are conducted outside schools have taken their lead from the view that experienced practitioners are of vital importance to progressively developing and refining vocational education and training. Alliances that develop between the immediate players "on the ground" and activity-oriented researchers who advise and shape the process on a flanking basis result in the modernization of vocational education and training.
The results and findings generated in the course of these exemplary processes are transferred via a variety of communication channels, such as the networking of pilot projects with one another or through the use of print and IT media.
Pilot projects have played an important role in the necessary updating of vocational training content, methods and structures for decades now. Acting as catalysts for continual modernization, such projects tap into trends and initiate practical steps toward implementing new developments on a broad basis, developments of relevance to education policy. Pilot projects interleave vocational training practice, research and policy and thus serve as seismographs and vehicles for demonstration.
