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June 26, 2025

Diverse contributions from ITB at this year's ‘Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training’

From 21 to 23 May 2025, the ‘6th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training’ took place in Palma, Mallorca. The conference was organised by Prof. Dr Francisca Salvà-Mut and Dr Elena Quintana-Murci, Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Vocational Education and Training, University of the Balearic Islands, in cooperation with Prof. Dr Barbara E. Stalder and Dr Christof Nägele, VETNET European Research Network Vocational Education and Training.

June 24, 2025

AI Pioneers meet in Verona for the third transnational project meeting

The third project meeting of the Erasmus+ project AI Pioneers took place from 12 to 13 June at the University of Verona. Prior to this, a study visit to a vocational training institution from CNOS-FAP (project partner; Federation of the National Centre for Salesian Works in Italy) was foreseen to discuss the use of artificial intelligence (10 to 11 June). Many thanks to Luca Chiavegato for the insights into the current practice of AI use on site in Verona.

June 18, 2025

Workshop series on the design of learning situations in the FLAME project

The collaboration between the Hamburg Fire Service Academy and the Institute of Technology and Education in the ‘Modern and Efficient Fire Service Career Training’ (FLAME) project can look back on the first half of the three-year project period and, in the course of this, on a large number of jointly implemented workshops on the design of learning situations.

June 4, 2025

MULE on the 6th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 21 to 23 May 2025

In addition to many exciting presentations we, Vivan Harberts (project coordinator) and Dr. Christine Siemer from the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen, were able to present current research results from our Erasmus+ project MULE as part of Session 7.3 Workplace Training.

May 27, 2025

AI Pioneers attended a congress at the ITECH Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg vocational school in Hamburg

On 9 May, Ludger Deitmer, Frieda Klaus and Christine Siemer from the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen visited the beautiful Hanseatic city of Hamburg as part of the Erasmus+ project AI Pioneers and took part in the one-day congress ‘Shaping tomorrow's school today’ at the vocational school ITECH Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg with a workshop on the topic of ‘Ethical questions on the use of AI in vocational education - Towards an evaluation scheme as an ethical

May 21, 2025

Final event for the AI4Ed project will take place on 28 May 2025 in a hybrid format!

After 2.5 years and the successful development of artificial intelligence (AI)-supported learning units on additive manufacturing and the potential application of AI in vocational schools, the AI4Ed project is coming to an end.

May 8, 2025

Beginning of the research project 'FinDMB'

The department 'Diversity and Critiques of Power in Educational Pathways' launches a project on Financial Literacy.

May 7, 2025

Children's University Workshop 2025 'Experiencing artificial intelligence'

As part of this year's Children's University, Frieda Klaus and a prospective teacher offered an exciting workshop entitled ‘Experiencing Artificial Intelligence’ for children aged between 10 and 12.

April 30, 2025

Dr Susanne Peters has successfully completed her habilitation achievements

The habilitation achievements included a habilitation thesis on the topic ‘Varieties of VET Research: A German Perspective in International Contexts’, proof of further training in higher education didactics and a public lecture on 25 April 2025 on the topic ‘Possibilities and limits of continuing vocational education and training (CVET) in companies to cope with the socio-ecological transformation and implications for initial vocational education and training (IVET)’ followed by a colloquium.

April 9, 2025

South African-German workshop at the ITB

In cooperation with the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) at the University of Bremen, a South African-German workshop on the training and further education of teachers and lecturers in vocational schools and colleges took place from March 31 to April 4, 2025.

April 2, 2025

CESynergy project presentation at the symposium ‘Shaping change: Anchoring sustainability in further education institutions!’

On 27 March 2025, the symposium on the topic of ‘Anchoring sustainability in further education institutions!’ took place in Bremen. The event was organised by the National Coordination Point of the European Agenda for Adult Education in cooperation with the Department of Continuing Education of the Senator for Children and Education Bremen.

March 31, 2025

First workshop organised by SKILLS4JUSTICE in cooperation with iMOVE on fair recruitment of foreign skilled workers and apprentices

The first of four planned online workshops organised by the Institute Technology and Education (ITB) for the project ‘Skills Partnerships for Sustainable and Just Migration Patterns’ SKILLS4JUSTICE in cooperation with iMOVE took place on 25 March 2025.