• LdV project ‘K advice and Q support’ » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin
  The Leonardo da Vinci project ‘K advice and Q support’ aims at developing new concepts and tools of career advice for (disadvantaged) youths. Many either experience conflicts between their abilities and potential and the desired job training, or they lack a realistic image of training and work. As part of the project, instruments and methods of career advice were developed which do not merely represent a punctual source of information, but some sort of career-accompanying consulting offer for youths. The ibw has designed a simplified instruction to fill in the Europass curriculum vitae for youths (enclosed), as well as the ‘ability check’. The latter is a tool to check one’s power of concentration, organisational ability, logical thought, and the sense of shape and space. These are competences the job demands, but they cannot be read from grades.

   

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Entwicklung

• 38th Job World Championship in Helsinki Finland 2005 » Ing. Stefan Praschl
  The 38^th Job World Championship was a success not only for the Finnish hosts, but especially for the Austrian team who won three gold medals and achieved as good a result as they did at the last championship in St. Gallen in 2003. In addition to this, the Austrian result was completed by two silver and a bronze medal as well as thirteen diplomas (awarded to those candidates that achieved more than 500 out of 600 possible points). Christoph Leitl, president of the Austrian Economic Chamber said that Austria, being a small country, had once again proved that it could be world class in terms of job training. The Austrian team performed outstandingly: Austria came sixth out of 40 nations in the Nations Cup, which Korea won ahead of Italy and Switzerland, who performed equally well.

   

   

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• CAT – Career Advisory Tool » Mag. Wolfgang Bliem

  The Austrian Economic Chamber, the WIFI IKT (international transfer of know how) and the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have decided to cooperate so as to establish “career advice and job centres” in Saudi Arabia.

   

  As part of this project, the ibw is going to develop an online job information tool. The CAT – Career Advisory Tool, which is comparable to the BIC (job information computer) of the Austrian Economic Chamber, will not only offer job information, but also tips on what job to choose and a profile of interests that provides aid for one’s first orientation.

   

   

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• A new LDV project has been approved – a dynamic online tool for career advice » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin

  It is the aim of the project DYNOT (Dynamic Online Tool for Guidance) to develop a dynamic online tool for career advice teachers, as well as career advisors and consultants. With the aid of the tool, the current national and trans-national demand of qualification, both formal and informal, that companies in the IT sector have, will be made available to the target group mentioned. It is also intended to function as a possible benchmark for companies. Due to the demands changing constantly, for example in the wake of technical innovation, this tool will have to be dynamic, i.e., a platform based on computing. Companies will be able to repeatedly change, complete and assess their demands on the platform. For the time being, the project is focussed on the sector of information and communication technologies; a subsequent extension to other sector is possible.

   

  Cooperational partners wanted: if you would like to participate in the project advisory board, please write to zdrahal@ibw.at . We are looking for companies in the information and communication technologies sector that are ready to name, assess and update qualificational demands in their operating field.

   

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Forschung

• Future orientated educational policy needs a regional basis of research – the example of ‘Job Education Tyrol’ » Dr. Arthur Schneeberger
  Educational matters are increasingly receiving public attention. The market for apprenticeship posts, for example, has become a topic of discussion in educational policy and research over the last few years. However, public contributions to educational matters are often fragments and they inform in a lopsided way. Moreover, they lack regional tangibility: this means that they sometimes discuss problems or data based on average figures for the whole of Austria, but fail to mirror the real situation in one of the provinces. Often, discussions and demands are ‘imported’ without shedding light on the real problems.

   

   

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• ‘The alternative: entrepreneurship’ » Ehemalige Mitarbeiterin

  In early July 2005, operative work began on the Austrian EQUAL project “The Alternative: Entrepreneurship”, one of the project partnerships that was given the go-ahead in the second application round for EQUAL. The project, which will last for two years, wants to offer the alternative of entrepreneurship to women who have problems accessing the labour market for various reasons through well directed support. The Economic Chamber of the Burgenland is financially responsible and thus also mainly responsible for the project. The Palz & Partner Work Life Balance Consulting KEG is in charge of co-ordinating the contents. The ibw is concerned with the co-ordination of the first project module, as part of which innovative models for micro loans are developed. This is based on an Austria-wide survey among female entrepreneurs and an investigation of international cases of best practice.

   

   

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• Background Information concerning the educational system and the labour market in the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia » Mag. Kurt Schmid

   

  This article presents background information for the establishment of vocational orientation centres and especially the CAT (Career Advisory Tool) in the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia. Therefore, the focus is on vocational education and on qualificational as well as organisational aspects concerning the labour market and it does not present an overall picture of the Saudi-Arabian society. The background information has been derived from a 10-day-study visit of the author in the kingdom in June 2005.

   

   

   

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Gastautoren

• Foreign Language Competition 2005 » Gastautor

  Foreign Language Competition 2005

   

  This school year, vocational schools were asked to participate in the Foreign Language Competition of 2005 in the category English, for the first time. 54 students applied for the Lower Austrian regional competition – a number that exceeds all expectations.

   

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• Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Education at Universities » Gastautor

  The last few years have witnessed increased efforts to implement entrepreneurship education also at universities. This led to a broad range of education and further training activities as well as accompanying motivation and support programs especially for university students and graduates, so as to motivate them to found or take over a company and to give them support in founding and developing their business. Due to the high costs of these measures, their efficiency and effectiveness are increasingly being questioned. Thus, systematic evaluation of these measures is gaining importance. Against this background, this contribution features results of an explorative study on how to design and assess university programs, as well as evaluation concepts. Moreover, ideas and concepts for the design of evaluations are derived from these.

   

   

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• LaBooM (Languages for the Book and Media Sector) » Gastautor
  LaBooM (LAnguages for the Book and Media sector) is a newly approved language competence project to develop a blended learning course for the Book and Media sector. The project was requested and is coordinated by the Academy of the Austrian Book and Media Businesses. It is the target of the project to develop a job specific blended learning course for people working in the Book and Media sector, with special focus on intercultural learning. The course will be on two levels: the basic course for beginners will be in English, German, and Italian; the follow-up course for advanced learners will be in English only. Please contact akademie-buchundmedien@wkw.at if you are interested in further information or in participating in the test stage of the course.

   

   

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• Current developments in apprenticeship training » Gastautor

  Kommerzialrat Mr. Egon Blum comments on the importance of the dual training system for the Austrian economy, presents project 06 and explains the concept of ‘practitioner jobs’, considering as example the apprenticeship profession of metal processing, which is going to be newly decreed this year. Besides reviewing the Job Championship of 2005, he will also give an outlook on future challenges.

   

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Statistik/Grafik

• Prior education of apprentices » Sabine Nowak

  The preparation of special data on prior school education of vocational school students and apprentices in their first year of 2002/03, provided by the Federal Ministry of Education, gives insight into the distribution according to school types regarding students who then start an apprenticeship. The tables and reference charts presented look at this under a sex-specific aspect. The results display significant differences in prior education patterns with male and female apprenticeship starters as regards the main and most attended schools that lead to an apprenticeship.

   

   

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