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Prior to his retirement in 2017, Martin Mulder was Professor of Education with a focus on vocational education and training and Head of the Department "Education and Competence Studies" at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He held the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension and was Board Member of other relevant journals (e.g.
The future Rector of the University of Bremen will begin her term in the fall with three new Vice Presidents. The picture shows Jutta Günther, Maren Petersen, Mandy Boehnke, Michal Kucera and Bernd Scholz-Reiter. (from left)
Looking for a new profession, further education or professional inspiration? The KIWI project is de-signed to help. Inspired by dating apps, an app will be developed which recommends suitable pro-fessions and further education with just a few swipes and supported by AI.
More women in IT - but how? Since the end of last year, the project "F.IT Frauen in IT" has been working on an answer to this question. Through targeted training and further education offers, the project wants to create the possibility of a lateral entry into the industry for women. In order to successfully implement this goal, it is crucial to know the needs and requirements of the target group.
The objective of the LIKA 4.0 project was to develop, test and consolidate digitally supported work process and competence-oriented training for company trainers in the plumbing, heating and air conditioning and electrical engineering trades. The joint project with a training provider for the skilled trades, 13 skilled trades companies from the electrical and plumbing, heating and air conditioning trades, an IT partner and the ITB has now been completed after four years.
Project STEP-UP: Comparison of the training of vocational education and training staff in Germany, Italy, Spain and Lithuania, Project O4YEL: Development and exemplary implementation of strategies to prevent school and training drop-outs in Spain, Romania, Germany, Portugal and Great Britain.
Since September 2021, the KIM project has been developing an application to create AI-supported personalized continuing education curricula. In this way, the constantly growing number of continuing education options shall be examined for offers that support users on the way to their individual professional aim, taking into account personal learning preferences and competencies already acquired.
On September 1, 2021, the project "SMALO - Smart Learning in Logistics", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), started as part of the funding guideline "INVITE - Innovation Competition Digital Platform for Continuing Professional Development". The project sponsor is the BIBB.
The phase of professional orientation at the transition from school to work or university is a seminal one in the lives of young people. It not only influences individual life courses, but often also sets the course for the reproduction of social inequality. Not only young people feel strongly challenged in this transition process, but also teachers express insecurities - especially when it comes to dealing with difference and heterogeneity in this context.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Gessler took over as spokesperson for the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) on 1 April 2022.
As part of the SteBs project, a series of further training courses for teachers in the field of nursing is being carried out in cooperation with the "Landesinstitut für Schule" (LIS). The project management is located at the Institute of Technology and Education (ITB), the work package for these further training courses at the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP).
This year's DGfE Congress at the University of Bremen will take place from March 13-16 as an online conference and will focus on trends that impose or remove boundaries in the context of education, upbringing and socialization. We hope to create space for a discussion of boundaries, limitations, border demarcation, border violations, border crossings and removal of boundaries in the context of educational research.
