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The release conference "Decolonizing Education?! - Decolonization is not a metaphor" took place on 22 and 23 September 2023 at the CJD Castell, Bonn. As a platform for an in-depth exchange on the challenges and opportunities of decolonization in the educational sciences, it was aimed at academics, non-university educators and interested parties from various fields.
On 5th and 6th October 2023, the last programme conference of the teacher training quality initiative (Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung, QLB) with a total of 500 participants was held in Berlin. The federal and state governments' programme aimed to initiate, promote and sustainably implement new developments in teacher training.
During winter semester 2023/24, Susanne Peters is substituting the professorship for vocational didactics and vocational teacher education research in the Department of Research in Vocational Education and Training at the University Osnabrück. She teaches the seminars Diagnostics in Vocational Education and Curriculum Development.
This year's network conference of the "Scientific Network for Vocational Orientation" (WiN.BO for short) took place at the University of Bremen from 18 to 19 September. The network conference in Bremen focussed on the topic of "Interdisciplinarity in Vocational Orientation". 65 people from science, education practice and education policy took part at the conference.
The SteBs team (Structural Development in Vocational Teacher Education) presented project results at the final event of the "Schnittstellen gestalten" project (Designing Interfaces) at the Domkapitelhaus in Bremen.
The Project Management Summer School was held in September 2023 in cooperation of the "Projektmanagement macht Schule" (Project Management: setting the standards) special focus group of the GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V. (German Association for Project Management) and the University of Bremen. Guests were pupils from the secondary II school center Bördestraße. After an opening lecture by Dr.
The Section Conference on Vocational and Business Education of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) took place this year in Flensburg under the motto "Freedom - Vocational Education - Responsibility". In addition to exciting contributions from vocational education and training research, the conference offered participants the opportunity to get in touch with editors of professional journals.
ECER 2023 was held in full attendance for the first time since the Covid 19 pandemic. The venue was Glasgow (Scotland), the place for which ECER was cancelled in 2020. The euphoria could be felt everywhere, the number of participants with more than 3000 visitors was at a record level.
The Federal Government's strategy for one-stop VET cooperation was adopted on 12 September 2013, and the current version was adopted in 2019. Based on it, GOVET (German Office for International Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training) was created by the Federal Government as a central point of contact and thus the point of contact for German VET in international VET cooperation.
From the 15th to 16th of June 2023, the final conference of the JoinMe2 project took place in İzmir. Here, the training modules on "Disability", "Sexual Orientation", "Sex, Gender Identity and Gender Expression" and "Race, Ethnicity and Culture" which have been developed and tested in the project as well as the results of the evaluation were presented by all project partners.
On June 30, 2023, Eva Koball (bremen digitalmedia) and Kristina Kühn (Institute Technology and Education, ITB) presented the initial lessons learned from the Avanja and F.IT projects at the Women in Tech stage during the IT Career Summit 2023 in Hamburg. These projects aim to increase the participation of women in the IT industry addressing different target groups.
From May 25th to 26th 2023, members from the ITB presented recent research at the Crossing Boundaries Conference, which was this year organized by Vidmantas Tutlys in Kaunas, Lituania. The scope was on Vocational Education and Training Transformations for a digital, sustainable and socially fair future.
