Steinbeis Transfer Center InnoVET

Services

  • Qualification demand analysis
  • Identification of standards of competence
  • Country analysis regarding vocational education
  • Development of job descriptions, standards and profiles of competence
  • Development of curricula for training and further education
  • Sustainable organization of national vocational training systems
  • Design and development of occupational training and further education programs
  • Development of examination and certification systems
  • Training and coaching of qualification personnel
  • Certification of organizations
  • Consulting of companies and organizations regarding process-oriented training and further education
  • International vocational training consulting

Key Areas

  • International vocational training research and comparison of vocational training systems
  • Analysis of working processes for the design of job descriptions
  • Analysis and evaluation of learning needs and qualification processes
  • Innovative solutions and systems for occupational training and further education with a special focus on learning in business processes
  • Sustainable design of educational standards and curriculum development
  • Approaches for sustainable, ecologically-oriented vocational training including green technologies
  • Consulting and coaching regarding training and further education systems and international vocational training consulting

Project Examples

Projects

  • Fit for Industry 4.0 (RECOTVET programme)
  • A.U.T.O-4.0 – Anticipation of skills for Employees due to Digitalization
  • Work-Process Based Development of Advanced Detailed Curricula
  • Collaborative diagnostic network for the motor vehicle service work („Kodin-Kfz“)
  • CAR CAREERS – measures and methods for the recognition of informal and non-formal acquired learning results
  • „GRiW“ – design of the structural and personnel framework for the implementation of innovative work-dependent further education concepts
  • Analysis and securing of the professional competences and the qualification demand of the technical expert when fitting, commissioning and providing services of offshore wind turbines as well as development and implementation of sustainable regional training and further education measures (offshore competence)
  • „WN Zement“ – knowledge network cement lime concrete: scientific support and evaluation
  • The community for trainees and experts – “expertAzubi”
  • Virtual learning on the building site – “Vila-b”

Publications (selection)
Books

  • Musekamp, F.; Spöttl, G. (eds.). (2015). Kompetenz im Studium und in der Arbeitswelt. Nationale und internationale Ansätze zur Erfassung von Ingenieurkompetenzen. Competence in Higher Education and the Working Environment. National and International Approaches for Assessing Engineering Competence. (Vocational Education and Training: Research and Practice). Frankfurt, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Warsaw, Vienna: Peter Lang.
  • Molzow-Voit; Quandt, M.; Freitag, M.; Spöttl, G. (eds.). October 27, 2020 Robotics in Logistics. Training for Skilled Workers and Decision-Makers. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
  • Spöttl, G.; Gorldt, Ch.; Windelband, L.; Grantz, T.; Richter, T. (2016): Industry 4.0 – Impacts on Training and Staff Development in the Metal and Electrical Industry. Bayme vbm study, Munich.
  • Becker, M.; Balzer, L.; Kammermann, M.; Spöttl, G. (eds.). October 27, 2020 Vocational Training Based on Shorter Training Programs? An International Comparison of Staff Training Concepts for Disadvantaged Young Adults. Lang Publishing, Frankfurt, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Warsaw, Vienna:
  • Spöttl. G.; Windelband, L. (eds.). (2019): Industry 4.0 – Opportunities and Threats for Vocational Training. Bertelsmann Publishing, Bielefeld. 2nd Edition.

Articles

  • Spöttl, G.; Becker, M. (2019): Work Process-Related Vocational Training Research. In: Büchter, K.; Schütte, F. (eds.). Curriculum and Education Methods in Vocational Training Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa.
  • Spöttl, G. (2019): Methods of Vocational Training Research. In: Arnold, R.; Lipsmeier, A.; Rohs, M. (eds.). Manual of Vocational Training. 3rd Edition. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, Pages 695 – 710.
  • Becker, M.; Spöttl, G. (2019: The Impacts of Digitalization on Vocational Training Looking at the Example of the Metal and Electrical Industry Magazine for Education Science  22(3), 567-592.
  • Spöttl, G.; Becker, M. (2019): Work Process-Related Vocational Training Research.
  • In: Encyclopedia of Education Science. Online. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa, Pages 1-12.
  • Winch, L.; Spöttl, G. (2019): Industry 4.0 – The Redesign of Industrial Processes and Consequences for Vocational Training. In: Spöttl. G.; Windelband, L. (eds.). October 27, 2020 Industry 4.0 – Opportunities and Threats for Vocational Training. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Publishing, Bielefeld, pages 239 – 254.
  • Becker, M.; Spöttl, G.; Windelband, L. (2019): Specialist Vocational Education/Vocational Training and Conflicting Interests Between Vocational Education and Commercial and Technical Specialisms. In: bwp@Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik – online, Edition 37, 1-21. Online: www.bwpat.de/ausgabe37/becker_etal_bwpat37.pdf (17.12.2019).
  • Schlömer, B.; Spöttl, G. (2019): Digitalization and Vocational Training - Seven Hypotheses.  lernen & lehren Magazine, Yr. 34, Book 3 (135), pages 126-129.
  • Becker, M.; Spöttl, G. (2019): Scientific Coverage Assessment for Checking Commercial and Technical Job Profiles for Suitability to Industry 4.0. In: Becker, M.; Frenz, M.; Jenewein, K.; Schenk, M. (eds.). Digitalization and Skilled Worker Retention Challenges to Commercial and Technical Science and Related Education Techniques. Bertelsmann Publishing, Bielefeld, pages 137 – 155.

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