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The Institute Technology and Education (ITB) was represented at this year's ECER conference in Belgrade with several contributions. Dr Ludger Deitmer and Dr Christine Siemer had the opportunity to present their current research activities and results from the Erasmus+ funded project AI Pioneers.
The Institute Technology and Education (ITB) was represented at this year's ECER 2025 conference in Belgrade with several contributions. Vivian Harberts and Dr Christine Siemer had the opportunity to present their current research activities there and gave a presentation entitled: "Click, Learn, Succeed: Development of a Survey Instrument for Multimedia Learning Environments in Vocational Education and Training".
On 10 October, the University of Technology Sarawak (UTS) in Malaysia has forged a significant international partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) from the University of Bremen, Germany. This strategic collaboration marks a major milestone in advancing innovation, sustainability, and inclusive skills development on a global scale.
The Institute Technology and Education (ITB) was represented with several presentations at this year’s ECER VETNET 2025 Conference in Belgrade. Vivian Harberts delivered a presentation on the topic “Promoting Digital and Transversal Competences through Work-Based Learning in Resource-Constrained VET”.
On September 2, 2025, our EU project Circular Economy Pathways for the Energy Transition (CESynergy) was represented at the 3rd symposium “European Learning! With courage into the future” at the Bremen House of Citizenship. Around 130 participants from schools, educational institutions, and civil society organizations came together to gain new perspectives and inspiration for innovative educational approaches to climate neutrality, digital sovereignty, and change in Europe.
In the project “Development and testing of an e-portfolio concept for career guidance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania based on ‘Mission ICH’”, the ITB is developing a digital e-portfolio concept for school-based career guidance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Julia Tietjen has written a dissertation entitled ‘Motherhood and Equality: Intersectional Perspectives on Living Conditions, Negotiations and Decisions.’ The defence of her dissertation took place on 16 June 2025, and Julia Tietjen has now received her doctorate with distinction. For three years, Julia Tietjen researched the question ‘How do living conditions influence the decisions of mothers in parental relationships who desire equality in heteronormative contexts?’
The first MetaFin conference took place at the University of Mannheim from 2nd to 3rd June 2025. The conference was organised by the Meta project (MetaFin) of the BMBF funding line ‘Research on Financial Education’. MetaFin accompanies a total of 73 individual and joint projects.
Digital technologies are changing work processes, job profiles and learning requirements – and thus also presenting vocational school teachers with new challenges. In order to systematically and practically integrate digital innovations such as virtual reality (VR) and collaborative robotics (cobots) into vocational education, prospective teachers need the appropriate didactic knowledge and application skills.
How is artificial intelligence (AI) changing vocational education and training (VET) and adult education today and in the future?
Rising commodity prices, the CO₂ tax, increasing customer demands on their supply chains and the expectations of young talent are making sustainability a key issue for logistics. Companies need specialists who not only understand logistics processes, but can also shape them sustainably.
This year's EDEN Conference took place in Bologna from 15 to 17 June under the title ‘Shaping the Future of Education in the Age of AI – Empowering Inclusion, Innovation and Ethical Growth’. AI Pioneers was represented with several contributions.
