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Guest Lecture at HTWK Leipzig
On December 3, 2025, Dr Christine Siemer was invited by HTWK Leipzig to speak on one of her research areas as part of the "Studium Generale - Engineering Innovation" lecture series.
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New publication: ‘Sustainable labor migration through vocational education and training providers? Conditions of access and accessibility in the public-private (continuing) VET sector‘
The article by Frieda Klaus and Dr Ida Kristina Kühn entitled ‘Sustainable labour migration through vocational education and training providers? Conditions of access and accessibility in the public-private (continuing) VET sector’ was published in Frontiers in Education.
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Congratulations to Lisa Meyne on the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation on international VET transfer!
With the successful defence of her doctoral dissertation “International Vocational Education and Training Transfer: Objects, Networks and Innovation Processes”, Lisa Meyne has reached an important academic milestone. Her cumulative dissertation provides an empirically grounded and conceptually rigorous analysis of international VET transfer.
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NordWestVET doctoral colloquium in Cologne
On 20 and 21 November 2025, Frieda Klaus, Lisa Meyne, Dr. habil. Susanne Peters and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Gessler took part in NordWestVET. NordWestVET is a supra-regional doctoral colloquium that brings together doctoral students and their supervisors from the University of Bremen, the University of Cologne, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Osnabrück.
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ITB in the State Committee for Vocational Education and Training: Impulses for the professionalisation of in-company training staff
On 18 November 2025, the BIBB Learning Paths project, represented by Dr Melanie Schall, presented its findings to the Bremen State Committee for Vocational Education and Training. The meeting provided an opportunity to present key project findings to a broad audience of experts and to discuss them together.
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The AI Pioneers Project at the BIBB AI-Forum
On 17 November, the Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) from Germany hosted the next digital AI-Forum, an online series that reports on AI in vocational education and training focussing on different topics of AI use. This time, the Erasmus+ project AI Pioneers was invited to participate and present project results and the ongoing activities on network building across Europe.
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Travelling like in the 80s – the ITB at VETAssIst meeting in Subotica
On 6–7 November 2025, the second meeting of the project ‘Artificial Intelligence as VET Teacher Assistant (VETAssIst)’ took place in Subotica (Serbia).
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ISOV in Bucharest and Wallachia – more than just a project meeting
The third meeting of the partners of the ‘Innovative Skills for an Old Vocation (ISOV)’ project took place in Romania from 15 to 17 September 2025.
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Vivian Harberts completes her doctorate on skills assessment procedures
In her dissertation, Vivian Harberts successfully took on the challenge of developing and testing a skills assessment procedure for semi-skilled and unskilled workers that is specifically designed for use in vocational schools. Using a design-based research approach tailored to her research project and a broad spectrum of methods, she succeeded in gaining a precise understanding of this field. The result of her work is a procedure that closes a central gap in the landscape of external testing.
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Successful Project Meeting of the CESynergy Consortium at Gebze Technical University
From October 21 to 24, 2025, the second face-to-face meeting of the EU-funded project CESynergy - Circular Economy Pathways for Energy Transition - took place at Gebze Technical University in Turkey.
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Change of perspective - Understanding networks and making relationships visible - Participation in the DGNet Methodology School 2025
From October 6 to 8, 2025, Dr. Christine Siemer from the ITB took part in this year's methodology school of the German Society for Network Research (DGNet), which was held in the idyllic setting of Thurnau Castle (University of Bayreuth).