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On Wednesday we welcomed twelve new participants for the second round of our professionalization approach Hybrid-Learn. In addition to getting to know each other, the schedule of the course and an introduction to the topic 'Hybrid Learning Landscapes in Vocational Education' with best practice…

The second onsite contact week for the BMBF-funded MSc in Vocational Εducation and Ιnnovation took place at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology from 11 to 15 September 2023. The students who traveled to Munich from across the world participated in seminars and mentoring sessions. In…

The 20th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) took place on 22 - 26 August 2023 and was hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Macedonia, Greece. With 500 sessions in total, more than 2000 participants from…

On June 27, 2023, the 6th ASCOT+ monitoring group meeting took place at the BMBF in Bonn. The six projects once again presented their diverse work on technology-based competence measurement in vocational education and training and discussed further transfer perspectives with the participants of the…

On June 21st and 22nd, 2023, the Assistant Professorship of Technical Education and the TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning welcomed participants from the six European EuroTeQ universities in Munich. On the first day, all members met in the TUM Think Tank of the Munich School of Politics and Public…

During the delegation visit of the Ethiopian Ministry of Labor and Skills - around the Federal Minister HE Ms Muferihat Kamil as well as the State Minister HE Dr. Teshale Berecha - not only insights into the German dual vocational education and training were given and discussed with various…

From June 18th to 20th, Ethiopian Minister HE Ms. Muferihat Kamil (Ministry for Labor and Skills), State Minister HE Dr. Teshale Berecha along with a delegation visited the TUM Professorship of Technical Education. In addition to several days of substantive exchange at the TUM Think Tank, the…

From May 25 to 27, the 2nd German-Brazilian Edtech Hackathon took place in Sao Paulo. The EdTech Hackathon once again brought together diverse stakeholders from designers and hackers to educators and students. Together they developed technical solutions for local and global challenges in education.…

Our first in-person meeting of the LPI project team took place on May, 17th 2023, at the University of Stuttgart. Participants from all universities met and discussed the general roadmap for the coming years.

We are happy to share the latest publication from our team members Christina Ioanna Pappa, Despoina Georgiou, and Daniel Pittich. Their research article, "Technology education in primary schools: addressing teachers’ perceptions, perceived barriers, and needs," has been published in the journal…