Technological Education

Education is a key prerequisite for technology-based innovation. Only if there exists the requisite expertise can (novel) technologies be developed and implemented industrially. This makes high demands on the education system. In the sector of technical education, VDI/VDE-IT is mainly dealing with two major questions:                      

• The development of technological expertise: this includes initial technical and vocational training and the continuing training of technical skilled labour in the vocational and academic education systems as well as setting up company and inter-company working and innovation systems for the development of competencies in the technical sector.
• The improvement of the technical know-how and skills available in the population: the aim is to develop technical know-how as part of the general cultural body of knowledge (Technological Literacy), as defined by the Public Understanding of Science and Technology.                

VDI/VDE-IT is devoting its attention to this subject in the following contexts:

Projects

• Competition Advancement by Education: Open Universities
• Scientific monitoring of the BMBF-Initiative of accrediting vocational competencies to university courses – ANKOM

Publications

• Development of competencies in high-tech fields – New ways for scientific further training
• mst|femNet meets Nano and Optics – Nationwide Girls-Technics-Talent-Forums in MINT - mäta
• Technical skilled labour and managerial personnel in the field of sensor technology and measurement engineering: problems and strategies to overcome them
• Technical training for everybody. A neglected key element of innovation policy
• Textbook Microtechnology: For Apprenticeship, Studies and Further Education
• The situation of skilled labour in AAL activity fields – outlook on basic and further training