News about VET from Germany

BIBB maintains cooperation agreements with a total of 32 vocational training and research institutes worldwide. The latest addition is the cooperation with Ghana, building upon the committed cooperation of GOVET and CTVET.

Climate change is a major global challenge, and addressing it will require the efforts of individuals and organizations around the world.

Water is a vital raw material and a human right. Within the context of global efforts to secure a supply of skilled workers for such a key resource, multipliers from sub-Saharan Africa undertook an expert visit to look at various aspects of initial and continuing training in the (waste)water sector in Germany.

This years educataGhana offered an attractive and forward-looking picture to its specialist audience by showcasing a number of remarkable further developments in vocational education and training (VET), such as the first TVET Report. It also shows the success of bilateral VET cooperation with German institutions.

What role plays informal learning in vocational education and training worldwide? International researchers and experts exchanged on this topic at the regular annual conference staged by the German Research Center for Comparative Vocational Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.), which is based at the University of Cologne.

Interview: Shaimaa Bahaa El Din, Director of International Affairs and Development Partners' Relations, Federation of Egyptian Industries

The largest-ever European Union's (EU) project supporting education and training for young people in Central Asia had its official launch late November 2022 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

Students learn 21st-century digital skills required by the Nigerian job market.

How can (and must) a national vocational education and training agency be structured in order to foster a sustainable TVET system? GOVET has been working on behalf of the BMBF to advise the Ghanaian Commission for TVET on organisational development and to lay down important markers for the future.