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The Kompetenzwerkstatt's new handbook shows how work process-orientated and skills-promoting tasks can be developed, documented and made available to trainees in the form of a digital learning environment using the ‘Task Manager’ online tool.
Our first face to face consortium meeting took place from 17.-19.03.25 in the beautiful city of Lisbon, hosted by Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), the largest Portuguese university. We were joined by our project partners: Politechnika Śląska (Poland), Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi (Turkey), Training 2000 (Italy), Instytut Innowacji i Odpowiedzialnego Rozwoju INNOWO (Poland), and the University of Bremen, represented by Myrthe Reinsberg and Dr Andreas Saniter.
On the 10th and 11th of March 2025, the third meeting of the SKILLS4JUSTICE project took place at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (North Macedonia).
Learning and work tasks are a proven didactic and methodological concept for work process-oriented, project-based and, if necessary, cross-location vocational training. The 'Kompetenzwerkstatt' concept offers a separate module in which questionnaires and lists of criteria are used to explain how learning and work tasks can be developed step by step.
From 10 to 14 February 2025, the ITB doctoral student writing week took place for the third time. This year, the young researchers met in Gnarrenburg and worked on various key topics.
The steel sector is experiencing a profound transformation due to decarbonization, digitalization, and demographic changes. These shifts are fundamentally altering employment and qualification structures within the steel value chain, presenting both challenges and opportunities.
The kick-off meeting of the ‘Innovative Skills for an Old Vocation’ (ISOV) project took place at the ITB on 10/11 December 2024.
From November 28 to 30, 2024 the first Budapest International Conference on Education (BICE 2024) took place at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). Dr.
The guiding principle of work process and competence orientation in vocational education and training leads to the challenge for teachers at vocational schools and students of this teaching profession to design vocational teaching/learning processes correspondingly. In accordance with the requirements of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK), this is done with the help of learning situations.
ITB of University of Bremen has its strengths in adopting the influences of digitalisation, globalisation and diversity on education – both on Higher Education (HE) and Vocational Education and Training (VET). But regarding sustainability or circular energy, ITB still has space to improve. Thus we are very happy to be partner of the new project CESynergy (Circular Economy Pathways for the Energy Transition)!
On 6 November 2024, the Institute Technology and Education (ITB), as a project partner of the Erasmus+-funded AI Pioneers project represented by Dr Ludger Deitmer, Frieda Klaus, Lisa Meyne and Dr Christine Siemer, held a workshop to develop a practice-oriented concept for the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in vocational education and training together with experts in the field of artificial intelligence.
On 28 October 2024, Dr Christine Siemer and Lisa Meyne (University of Bremen, ITB) took part in the 9th Congress of the German Society for Network Research in Darmstadt. This year's congress was entitled ‘Network structures between theory and practice’.
