The funding priority to be supported aims to help those involved in vocational training - particularly small and medium-sized enterprises - to further develop quality assurance practices. Suitable concepts, procedures and instruments for optimizing training and improving the professionalism and cooperation of those responsible for training are to be developed and tested as part of the pilot projects.

In addition to the development of instruments for the quality development and assurance of in-company vocational training, the central design and research fields of the pilot projects are the development of communication/cooperation structures and qualification concepts for training personnel.

The pilot project program "Development and assurance of quality in in-company vocational training" launched by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is scientifically supported by the Institute for Vocational Education and General Pedagogy (IBP) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (f-bb).

The scientific monitoring supports the pilot projects in the funding priority in an observational, advisory and accompanying capacity. In addition, it assumes quality assurance functions in relation to all pilot projects as part of a formative and summative evaluation and supports internal and external transfer.

The aims of the scientific support work are

To further develop and ensure the quality of processes in various vocational education and training and company contexts and to support the pilot projects in the reflective implementation of objectives and action concepts that promote learning.

Knowledge networking and inclusion of plural interests and stakeholders in processes of practice development.

Co-productive knowledge acquisition through the interlinking of development and research processes in the sense of further development and generation of professional knowledge about tried and tested action steps and achieved effects, hindering and facilitating influencing factors. This includes a reflective attitude and an oscillation between proximity to the field and scientific distance.

Knowledge (science) transfer in the sense of anchoring tried and tested educational innovations and findings in the breadth of vocational training practice. To this end, results and findings are to be made sustainably usable for the associated reference systems of educational practice, research and politics.

Further information on the concept of scientific support :
f-bb Forschungsinstitut Betriebliche Bildung, Nuremberg/ KIT Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, IBP Institut für Berufspädagogik und Allg. Pädagogik

The detailed application of the scientific monitoring :
Martin Fischer, Thomas Reglin: Quality assurance in the dual system - status quo and need for action. An assessment from the perspective of the scientific program support in the pilot project funding priority "Development and assurance of quality in in-company vocational training"