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The Erasmus+ project "Improve Digital Competences of VET Teachers and Trainers" (IDC-VET) was successfully completed at the end of February 2023 by the project consortium consisting of 7 partners from Lithuania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany.
On June 13, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) held a scientific conference in Bonn entitled "Success factors of digital services for informing, learning and networking personnel in vocational education and training" at the Universitätsclub Bonn. From the Institute Technology and Education, Dr. Ludger Deitmer, Melanie Schall, Christine Siemer and Lisa Meyne participated.
An online event will be held on the Erasmus+ project "Developing Innovative and Attractive CVET programmes in industrial shoe production" (DIA-CVET) coordinated by the ITB.
HORST has found its way into the ITB garage. The industrial robot is now ready for use and will support the ITB in research and teaching.
Prof. Dr. Maren Petersen, Deputy Spokesperson of the Institute Technology and Education and Vice President for Teaching and Studies at the University of Bremen, has been appointed as a member of the "Digital Summit" platform of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
From 08.-12. May 2023 Alexandra Doroftei was a guest at ITB. She came with the Erasmus Staff Mobility program and works at the Center for Research and Intervention in Education at the University of Porto, doing research on Dual VET and Social Justice.
The aim of the Erasmus+ project AI4ED is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify learning patterns of students or apprentices that indicate successful or risky navigation through self-determined learning units.
At the end of April, the kick-off meeting of the European Union-funded project White-label shop for digital intelligent assistance and human-AI collaboration in manufacturing (WASABI) took place in Bilbao, Spain. WASABI focuses on intelligent digital assistance solutions that help skilled workers to master challenges in the work process. The aim is to contribute to human-centred manufacturing through assistance systems.
The digital assistants developed in the EU project COALA with the participation of the ITB were presented at Hannover Messe 2023. The focus was on the application of a voice assistant and the underlying artificial intelligence. The offer to try out the functions for selected application scenarios in interactive demonstrations met with great response from the visitors to the stand.
The ITB and the Central Research Funding allow various stays abroad within the support program BremenIDEA. One of these research stays was realized by PhD student Julia Tietjen at the University of Vienna at the Institute of Educational Sciences in the team of Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz.
On 22th of March 2023, a collage workshop was held as part of the project “WB-Deutschkurs”. For this event, teachers and learners of the model project "Deutschkurs für kognitiv beeinträchtigte Menschen im Lande Bremen" (German language course for cognitively impaired adults in Bremen) were invited.
On the 16th and 17th of March 2023 the project partners of the JoinMe2 project visited the ITB. Dr. Franziska Bonna, Prof. Dr. Alisha M.B. Heinemann and Gabriela Hotes welcomed the colleagues from Belgium, Greece, Poland, England and Turkey.
