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  • ITB congratulates Felix Rauner on his 80th birthday

    On May 3, Prof. Dr. Felix Rauner will turn 80. After studying at the University of Education in Berlin, the trained electrical engineer worked for two years as a vocational school teacher and then as head of department at what is now the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training. In 1978, he took up a professorship in the vocational subject of electrical engineering informatics and vocational education at the University of Bremen.

  • Online symposium from 19 to 20 July 2021: Professional Orientation and Pedagogical Responsibility – Status and Perspectives for Professional Orientation in Upper Secondary School

    An online conference will be held on July 19 and 20 as part of the BMBF-funded research and development project "BOGyO – Support for professional orientation in upper secondary school in Bremen“. The scientific monitoring of the project is carried out by the Institute for Economic Education (IÖB), Oldenburg in cooperation with the Institute Technology and Education (ITB), University of Bremen, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Alisha M.B. Heinemann and Prof. Dr. Rudolf Schröder.

  • Joint project launched for digitally supported training at KAEFER

    Together with KAEFER Industrie GmbH, the ITB is carrying out a project in which a digitally supported, work process-oriented and competence-promoting training concept is being developed and implemented in training practice for the professions of "industrial skilled worker" and "industrial insulator".

  • Crossing Boundaries Conference in Muttenz/Bern on April 8th and 9th

    On April 8th and 9th 2021, the Crossing Boundaries Conference takes place in Muttenz/Bern, Switzerland. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event is organised as an online conference.

  • Launch of project "tekom_LandBauMT"

    Within the project "tekom_LandBauMT - Technical communication in learning and working processes of agricultural and construction machinery mechatronics technicians in the context of Industry 4.0", requirements and needs of agricultural and construction machinery sector are being examined against the background of effects of digitalisation.

  • Online event "Education and training of VET teachers and trainers - Comparison between Germany, Italy and Lithuania" March 25, 2021

    The subject of the event are results of a study that identified and compared training and teaching competencies of European vocational training personnel in the countries Germany, Italy and Lithuania as well as presenting the self-evaluation tool for teaching competencies that was developed afterwards.

  • Cooperative event of iMOVE and wb-ibb: three-part workshop series starts on May 27th 2021

    The scientific accompanying research wb-ibb of the BMBF funding guideline "Internationalisation of Vocational Education and Training (IBB)", together with iMOVE, a working area of the "Vocational Education and Training International" department at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), is organising a three-part series of workshops on various working and research focal points of the internationalisation of initial and continuing education and training services.

  • Bilateral Technical Workshop: German-South African Exchange of Experts

    On March 11, 2021, the German-South African expert exchange on COVID-19 consequences took place via Webex, conducted by GOVET.

  • The ITB welcomes Professor Klaus Götz as a visiting scholar

    At its February meeting, the Institute Council appointed Professor Klaus Götz as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Technology and Education for a period of two years.

  • TACCLE4 CPD project successfully completed

    TACCLE4 CPD project was launched as a successor of three earlier TACCLE projects that concentrated on promoting the digital competences of classroom teachers. The aim of the fourth project was to develop strategies and models for continuing professional development (CPD) to promote digital competences of teachers and trainers in different educational sectors. The work of ITB focused on the field of vocational education and training (VET) and built upon the work in the Learning Layers project.

  • DASCHE project finished

    In July 2020, the project "Development, Assessment and Validation of Social Competences in Higher Education (DASCHE)" ended officially. The project partners from Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany came to the conclusion, despite different practical and theoretical approaches towards the construct of social competence, that the state of art is comparable.

  • Completion of the collaborative project ‘Load Securing – Digital’ (LaSiDig)

    As part of the successfully completed LaSiDig project, an innovative mobile learning solution was developed. The main aim was to promote the development of professional and digital skills amongst professional drivers. The resulting learning solution can be used both in a browser and as an app for Android and iOS devices. This facilitates its integration into daily work and encourages informal learning.

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