Focus on in-company training staff - CLOU final conference

The potentials and challenges of the qualification of in-company training personnel brought together around 80 representatives from research and business at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden on February 7, 2024. The aim was to exchange views on current measures as well as research approaches and results for the (further) qualification of company training personnel and to discuss their opportunities. The results of the two InnoVET sub-projects, which are based at TU Dresden, were particularly in the foreground.

After the official welcome by the sub-project leaders, the conference was opened with two exciting perspectives from politics and science in keynote speeches:

Prof. Dr. Ertl (Research Director and Permanent Representative of the President, BIBB) addressed the demands of socio-economic transformation on innovation in vocational education and training in his presentation and described in detail the role of innovation in vocational education and training using the example of InnoVET.

In his keynote speech, Prof. Dr. Käpplinger (Chair of Continuing Education, Justus Liebig University Giessen) addressed the (new) challenges that company training staff may face and how these can be tackled.

In a total of five workshops, the discussions on company (further) qualifications could then be deepened. The two TUD sub-projects and other partners from the InnoVET network presented needs-based concepts and existing qualification offers for in-company training personnel for discussion. The different perspectives from practice, business and science enabled an exciting and targeted discussion of the approaches and results.

In the concluding panel discussion, Sigmar Kühl as representative of the CLOU network coordinator SBG (Sächsische Bildungsgesellschaft für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe mbH Dresden), Dr. Anke Mondschein from the practice partner FILK (Research Institute for Leather and Plastic Sheeting), Björn Thierbach as works council representative of the employees of Accumotive GmbH & Co. KG as well as Thomas Bulang from the chemical trade union IGBCE and Dr. habil. Ina Krause from the CLOU project team on the issue of good company training and further training practice. Prof. Dr. Ralf Tenberg and Dr. Jaquline Jaekel (both Technology Didactics, TU Darmstadt) moderated the event, taking on board the different perspectives of the discussion partners and venturing a joint look into the future of vocational training. In doing so, they gave all participants at the event important impulses to take home with them.

We would like to thank all participants, the keynote speakers, the workshop organizers, the moderators and the participants of the panel discussion as well as all helpers.

You will find a complete documentation of all presentations and workshops on the event page in a few days.