Increasing digitalization is changing the world of work and placing new demands for skilled workers in trade and industry, in society, as well as for college-based and company-based teaching and training processes.
TVET and digitalization is associated with changes and challenges in work processes, developments towards Industry 4.0, and in teaching and learning supported by digital media.
To take these developments into account and support the adaptation processes, the TVET Academy offers selected training activities for different target groups.
In TVET systems, the effective and targeted management of vocational training institutions is a key challenge. The responsible leadership and management staff is expected to have wide-ranging competencies in order to meet the increasingly sophisticated expectations towards vocational colleges and TVET institutions in general.
The TVET Academy provides support to the upper and middle level management as well as other decision makers at TVET institutions.
To ensure that TVET is geared to the requirements of the labour market, a close cooperation between TVET institutions and companies as well as other industry-related organisations is of high importance.
Through targeted training measures the TVET Academy can support the strengthening and systematization of cooperation between all TVET stakeholders.
We consider competent TVET personnel in colleges, companies and other TVET institutions as the core of the quality and performance of TVET systems.
As TVET Academy we foster the acquisition of competences that are aligned to the requirements of today’s and the future labour market and working environments.
Population growth, the increasing scarcity of raw materials and climate change have made energy and resource efficiency as well as the production of renewable energies to central fields of action for the 21st century. A qualified workforce with up-to-date “green skills” form the basis for sustainable development. As TVET Academy, we strengthen appropriate qualification of teachers, close cooperation with industry, and adapted structures for initial training and further education.
Economic growth, infrastructure development and a growing young population offer great potential for sustainable economic growth in developing countries. Major investments have created a demand for local workers, but a lack of qualified local experts and (supplier) companies prevails. This means the population and companies are unable to fully benefit from employment and development opportunities. Since 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted investments and businesses in many developing countries. New innovative solutions are needed that boost the local economy, secure long-term demand for jobs and maintain existing jobs.
The TVET Academy offers courses on basic concepts of employment promotion and specific approaches surrounding labor market policy as well as trends and special features of labor markets in developing countries.
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) plays a key role in the sustainable development of economic and socio-ecological structures in developing countries, emerging countries and industrialised nations. Due to the consistently increasing global demand for technical and managerial expertise in the vocational training sector, its strengthening has also been anchored as a focus topic in the global agenda for sustainable development.
Throughout the globe, we plan and implement: Competence development in TVET
The TVET Academy supports the continuous development of technical, pedagogical, managerial and leadership competences for a labour-market oriented vocational training. Jointly with our partners, we develop tailored concepts for TVET competence development around the requirements and target groups in specific working areas. We implement these for partners and clients, using and coordinating a customized combination of competence development measures. The service offering of the TVET Academy encompasses