Completed project · 2015–2018
Sustainable construction and renovation – Cross-trade training for trainers and apprentices
NaBuS trains VET personnel in northern Germany as multipliers for sustainable vocational education.
The North German Centre for Sustainable Construction (NZNB) in Verden and the ITB jointly develop continuing training for construction educators. It addresses vocational school teachers and trainers wishing to explore sustainability more deeply in their teaching and become multipliers for sustainable education.
The training has two priorities:
Deepening theoretical and practical knowledge of sustainable construction and ecological building materials through expert exchange and practical exercises;
Creating and reflecting on concepts and learning materials for participants' own projects with apprentices.
The programme combines facilitated, digitally supported self-study with face-to-face sessions. These take place in Verden, including at two distinctive venues. At the ‘nachhaltig.bauen.erleben’ exhibition, participants encounter the complexity of sustainable and ecological construction through hands-on experience, focusing on the house as a system and different construction and insulation materials. A practical training hall allows future multipliers to experience building-site situations at interfaces between trades and reflect on the challenge of communicating with one another. Open educational resources are developed to deepen subject knowledge, alongside recommendations for high-quality freely available online content. Participants can also share completed apprentice projects and clarify outstanding questions.
The project's pedagogical foundations draw on Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich and Wolfgang Klafki.