iMOVE Presentation

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Building Pathways to Success through
German-American Partnerships for Innovative
Solutions in Workforce Training
NAWB Forum 2006 Washington D.C., 27 February 2006
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Content

• Global Challenges for Economies and Workforce
  Development
• Challenges for Workforce Development in the U.S.
• Current and Future Requirements
• Workforce Development in Germany
• Benefits of American-German Partnerships
• iMOVE Bringing People Together

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Global Challenges for Economies and Workforce
Development

• Globalisation
• Developments in ICT
• Increasing international competition
• Structural change from industrial to knowledge
  society
• Changing industries Proliferation of products,
  accelerating product cycles, fast change in
  production technologies, growing consumer
  interest in quality
• Changing of jobs and workplaces (less lower
  skilled jobs)
• Demand for higher, more complex skills
• Increasing demand for continuing training

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Challenges for Workforce Development in the U.S.

• End of babyboom generation
• Focus on academic education
• Low esteem of vocational/technical education and
  training (low income, minority students/ blue
  collar jobs)
• No national school-to-work system
• Insufficient cooperation between industry and
  education system
• Skills shortage (labor) in high growth industries
• Traditional mass production system (narrowly
  defined jobs)
• Lack of comprehensive skills

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Current and Future Requirements

• Demand driven solutions characterised by
  flexibility, fast responsiveness to market shifts
  and continuous innovation
• Increased cooperation between industry and
  education system
• Shift from narrowly defined jobs to a
  broad/conceptual understanding of work place and
  environment
• No separation between learning and working
• More work-based learning/training
• Delivering complex, higher skills

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Workforce Development in Germany

• Focus on vocational/technical education and
  training (65)
• National VET system with national standards
• Industry demand driven
• Cooperation between industry, education system
• Cooperative training
• Focus on practical experience
• Workbased learning and training
• Comprehensive range of knowledge and skills
  (technical, problem-solving, ability to
  transfer/apply skills, teamwork, communication,
  IT)

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Benefits of American-German Partnerships

• Exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas and
  solutions
• Learn and benefit from eachother
• Putting complimentary strengths together
• Develop joint programs and solutions
• Overcome shortcomings in both systems
• Establish strategic/business relationships
• Enter eachothers market
• Enter international markets together

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iMOVE Bringing People Together

• An initiative of the Federal Ministry of
  Education and Research
• Our goals
• Support internationalisation of German training
  providers
• Promote international cooperation between German
  training providers and partners abroad
• Inform about training and workforce development
  in Germany
• Build bridges between those who need and those
  who provide training or those looking for
  partners

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Our Services

• Seminars and workshops to network and get
  information on issues related to
  internationalisation
• Trade missions abroad with visits to ministries,
  companies and education/training organisations
• Cooperation exchanges abroad with B2B talks with
  potential business partners
• Common booths at trade fairs abroad
• Online information- and communication platform
• Multilingual training database
• Market reports

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Our Online Service

• www.imove-germany.de
• Profiles of more than 180 training providers
• Information available in 7 languages Arabic,
  Chinese, English, French, German, Russian,
  Spanish
• Co-operation exchange
• Link collection
• Information on iMOVE activities worldwide

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www.imove-germany.de
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International Activities and Cooperation in...

• China
• Egypt
• Estonia
• India
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Oman
• Poland
• Russia
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United Arab Emirates

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Examples
Cooperation exchanges in China and Russia
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• Thank you for listening!
• Any questions???
• Come and talk to us at booth 15-17

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Contact Sabine Gummersbach-Majoroh Director iMOVE
at the Federal Institute for Vocational
Education and Training Robert-Schuman-Platz
3 D-53175 Bonn Tel. [phone] Fax
49 (0)0228/ 107-2895 Email info_at_imove-germany.de
Website www.imove-germany.de