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The Kick-Off event of SKILLS4JUSTICE project took place at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, on February 5th and 6th, 2024. The focus was on organizational matters and, not least, getting to know each other of the very large project consortium, consisting of more than 30 people. Due to the size of the consortium and the associated challenge of scheduling, the meeting took place in a hybrid format.
The "Zeitschrift für Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik" (guest editors: Silvia Annen and Karl-Heinz Gerholz) has published an article by Michael Gessler and Susanne Peters on the international training management of German family businesses. The company FESTO serves as a case study.
From November 20 to 24, the ITB research associates made their way to Harriersand to advance their doctoral thesis in an idyllic setting.
Under the title "F.IT Finale," the closing event of the F.IT Women in IT project took place on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at the Digital Hub Industry. The program included welcoming guests by the client and project management, a keynote, workshops, and a grand finale challenge.
The F.IT Women in IT project took part in "Hack4Ladies". The women's hackathon, organised by the Lenze Group, took place from 5 to 7 May at the Digital Hub Industry Bremen and aimed to get girls and young women interested in the field of IT. During the hackathon, participants worked in teams on sponsored challenges. The developed prototypes and concepts were then presented on stage and the best ideas were rewarded with cash prizes.
On the 8th of January, a team from Rongo University and the University of Bremen (left to right: Wycliffe Ogaga, Steve Oloo, Prof. Jonathan Mulwa, Vivian Harberts, Peter Kaune) visited the three participating secondary schools to do a site inspection in Homa Bay, Kenya. The aim of the site visits was to determine the requirements for the upcoming installation of photovoltaic and IT equipment.
On September 25 and 26, 2023, the first meeting on "Reflecting Ableism in Education for Future Educa-tion" took place at the University of Bremen. The hosts Prof. Alisha Heinemann and Prof. Natascha Korff welcomed Prof. Michelle Stack and Prof. Heidi Janz from UBC Vancouver, Dr. Ann-Kathrin Arndt from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Anna Peschke from the University of Bremen, and Dr. Franziska Bonna from the Institute Technology and Education in Bremen as experts in the field of Ableism Critique.
At the kick-off meeting of the project "MULE – Multimedia Learning Environment for Work-Based Learning Tasks for VET-Students in the Sector of Applied Informatics", the project partners from Germany, Italy, Serbia and Spain came together to discuss strategies and applied methods within the project. The project aims to improve vocational education in the field of applied computer science by capturing current industry trends through learning and work tasks.
On November 9th, 2023, the fourth F.IT company workshop took place on the topic of "How can the IT and logistics industry position itself attractively for skilled workers?". The project team, represented by Lea Telle and Lena Wollenberg (ifib - Institute for Information Management Bremen), Dr. Kristina Kühn (Institute for Technology and Education) and Eva Koball (bremen digitalmedia e. V.), invited to the workshop. The hosts were Lisa Heise and Katrin Brunken from affinis.
On November 7th, the label "Project-oriented school" celebrated its premiere in Berlin. A total of four schools in the state of Berlin, three vocational and one general education school, were awarded as project-oriented schools resulting from an intensive pilot phase. The concept was developed in cooperation of the expert group "Projectmanagment for Schools“ (Projektmanagement macht Schule) of the GPM German Project Managemet Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.
On 20th November, the Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB; Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training) opened its new platform for training and examination personnel at the Rosengarten Congress Centre in Mannheim under the motto "Leading the way to Leando".
From 9 August to 15 September, Lisa Meyne and Christine Siemer set up their office at the University of Verona in the Department of Work and Organisational Psychology at the Faculty of Human Sciences.
