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Thematic Areas: Inclusion and Youth | Innovation and Future of TVET | Private Sector Engagement | SDGs and Greening TVET
Our Key Programmes & Projects: BILT: Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET | Building TVET resilience | TVET Leadership Programme | WYSD: World Youth Skills Day
Past Activities: COVID-19 response | i-hubs project | TVET Global Forums | Virtual Conferences | YEM Knowledge Portal
Our Services & Resources: Publications | TVET Forum | TVET Country Profiles | TVETipedia Glossary | Innovative and Promising Practices | Entrepreneurial Learning Guide
Events: Major TVET Events | UNEVOC Network News
UNEVOC Centre (National Body) since 1994
The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is recognised as a centre of excellence for vocational research and for the progressive development of vocational education and training (VET) in Germany. BIBB works to identify future challenges in VET, stimulate innovation in national and international vocational systems, and develop new, practiceoriented solutions for both initial and continuing vocational education and training.
Technological, economic and social change presents companies with the constant challenge of maintaining a highly qualified skilled workforce. In Germany, the structural foundation for these qualifications is the dual system of initial vocational training and company-based continuing vocational training. At the same time, a dual system programme of initial vocational training lays the foundation for lifelong learning. Both initial and continuing vocational education and training are investments in the future.
Being directly accountable to the Federal Government, BIBB is funded directly from the federal government budget and is subject to the legal supervision of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 1999 its headquarters have been in Bonn.
BIBB was founded in 1970 on the basis of the Vocational Training Act (Berufsbildungsgesetz, BBiG) as a federal government institution for policy, research and practice in the field of vocational education and training.
For 50 years now, BIBB has continued to fulfil this role. Its current basis in law is the Vocational Training Act of January 1, 2020 which sets out the Institute´s tasks. In its research and development work and its advisory activities, BIBB helps to provide individuals with qualifications of lasting value for their economic security and employability, and to ensure the international competitiveness of German business and industry.
| Sharing knowledge about TVET | Primary focus | ||||
| Developing knowledge | Primary focus | ||||
| Developing and building capacities | Primary focus | ||||
| Teachers | Secondary focus | ||||
| Researchers | Primary focus | ||||
| Policy makers | Primary focus | ||||
| Private sector | Primary focus | ||||
| Greening of TVET institutions and skills | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Migration | Interested to contribute | |||||
| OER and Online Learning | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Equity of access in TVET | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Gender equality in TVET | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Fostering entrepreneurship | Interested to learn | |||||
| Industry 4.0 / Smart production | Interested to contribute | |||||
| Capacity development projects | Highly interested | ||||
| Policy oriented projects | Highly interested | ||||
| Knowledge development | Highly interested | ||||
| Workshops and conferences | Highly interested | ||||
| Within my cluster | Highly interested | ||||
| With Africa | Highly interested | ||||
| With the Arab States | Moderately interested | ||||
| With Asia and the Pacific | Highly interested | ||||
| With Europe, CIS and North America | Highly interested | ||||
| With Latin America and the Caribbean | Moderately interested | ||||
