BIBB Mission Statement

We are committed to high-quality VET and seek to encourage innovations.

Vocational education and training is the key to personal development and to participation in society as well as being vital in terms of securing a sustainable economy and democracy. Our policy is that comprehensive and high-quality VET should be available to everyone. Our work promotes open and permeable educational pathways, lifelong learning and individual occupational development. We stimulate innovation within vocational education and training and foster the implementation of such innovation in practice.

We coordinate our goals with our partners from the Federal Government, the federal states and the social parties.

We operate on a statutory foundation within the scope of the educational policy of the Federal Government. Our work and research programme concentrates on key topics which are of importance to VET research, policy and practice.

We engage in dialogue with the areas of academic research, policy making and practice.

Our main strength lies in combining research, regulation and services aimed at reinforcing vocational education and training. We use this as a basis to carry out VET research, to develop initial and advanced training regulations, to offer services for the improvement of vocational education and training (programmes and guidance) and to bolster international VET cooperation. We advise in a process-related and results-oriented manner.

Our cross-cutting cooperation across different business and action areas ensures the systematic networking of VET research, policy consultancy and support for VET practice.

We are open to impetuses from academic research, policy making and practice and assume a facilitating role between the VET stakeholders.

Our vocational education and training research enables us to adopt a central position within the academic research system.

Our research addresses significant issues relating to vocational education and training and contributes to the development of theories and methods and to the analysis of data we have collected ourselves. It is interdisciplinary and internationally oriented in nature and is bound by academic research standards. We cooperate with institutes of higher education and research institutions, support up-and-coming academic talent and enable the field of academic research to access our research data.

We provide advice and assistance to international partners for the development and modernisation of VET.

Networking on experiences and best practice allows us to initiate and support international networks and to learn from one another. As well as boosting the effectiveness and competitiveness of the German VET system, this also has the potential to strengthen the educational structures and processes of our partner countries too. We work together to develop innovative solutions and to help to shape a European Education Area and strong VET worldwide with its foundations in mutual respect and joint development.

The quality of our work has its basis in expertise and motivation, successful cooperation, mutual respect and appreciation, equality of opportunity and the embracement of diversity.

Our commitment, creativity and self-initiative set us apart. Our style of work is characterised by reciprocal appreciation, open communication, cooperation and fairness. This is supported by a management approach which aims to motivate and activate.

We facilitate a work-life balance. We value cultural diversity. We take the aims of the Diversity Charter into account and encourage cooperation free from prejudices and stereotypes. Equality, inclusion and diversity in a respectful work environment are important to us. We foster innovativeness, creativity and social cohesion by pursuing diverse and inclusive staff acquisition and a diverse and inclusive recruitment policy. We practise systematic human resources development and provide high-quality training and company health management.

We communicate in a target group-oriented manner and instigate thematic impetuses.

We are networked within academic research, policy making and practice and use a modern communication concept to generate impetuses for vocational education and training. We support our own work and the work of other VET stakeholders via effective knowledge management, collaborative service provision and the processing of data. We operate an efficient digital infrastructure.

We represent an organisation which is aligned to core tasks and to a modern and employee-oriented world of work.

Decision-making pathways are shortened by the delegation of tasks and responsibility and by project autonomy. Cooperation takes place across the institute in a spirit of trust and promotes the open and systematic exchange of information, experiences and knowledge. This is supported via approaches towards the shift to digital processes and transparency. Digitalisation permits us to create simple and modern access to the services and provision offered by BIBB.

With New Work we are setting new benchmarks and areas of scope for collaboration and within our general organisational conditions. This strengthens our community and facilitates the highest degree of flexibility in our work actions. We bring our multifarious competencies to bear in actively shaping processes. We safeguard our organisational resilience in order to be able to negotiate our way through crises and particular challenges in a secure and foresighted manner.

We are a learning organisation. Quality development goals have been stipulated for all work processes and results. These objectives encompass planning, implementation, transfer and evaluation. Suitable instruments provide important information on managing the efficiency and quality of business processes. We regularly monitor whether we have achieved our quality objectives and improve our quality management on an ongoing basis.

We pursue sustainability in our work and actions on the basis of the UN’s sustainable development goals.

We align our actions in a way which allows us to meet our responsibility for protection of the environment and for maintenance of the natural foundations of life in the best possible way. We transfer our understanding of sustainability into established practice in accordance with ecological, economic and social dimensions. Our work and actions, including in respect of cooperation with our partners from academic research, policy making and practice, are directed towards creating general conditions and areas of scope which permit the long-term promotion of sustainability in accordance with its three dimensions. We incorporate these dimensions into our decisions and work.

We are committed to compliance with the relevant statutory obligations and with the requirements of our environmental policy as stipulated in the paragraph above. Environmental aspects play a central role for BIBB in this regard. They act as a framework for environment-related targets and individual goals which we evaluate annually for action relevance and governance potential and then develop further in accordance with requirements. We are committed to the constant improvement of our environmental performance and to the avoidance of environmental pollution.