Report on the Board Meeting 2/2018 held in Berlin on 6 June 2018

The main focus of the meeting was on debating the VET tasks and objectives of the Federal Government for the current legislative period. Further issues for consultation were permeability between academic and vocational training, the strategic realignment of BIBB research via the introduction of topic clusters, work integration of refugees and the sustainable structuring of the German Qualifications Framework. A revision of the “Recommendation regarding the acquisition of occupation-related competencies” was also formally adopted. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Chairman Udo Philippus, Representative of the Federal States.