BBNE-Hubs

Funding phase II

Funding:

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Social Fund are supporting the project with a total of 1,372,616 euros. Around 300,00 euros of the funding will go to the University of Erfurt.

Project partners:

• University of Paderborn,
• IHK-Akademie Ostwestfalen GmbH,
• Zukunftsfähiges Thüringen e.V.,
• State Association for Sustainable Saxony e.V.

Project description:

In the BBNE Hubs project (project phase 2024 to 2026), existing and already tested educational interventions from earlier pilot projects (KoProNa, TransSustain and TraNaxis) were successfully consolidated. In a further project period (2026 to 2028), the aim is to transfer these approaches to other regions. New regions (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse) and institutions will be involved.

The aim of the BBNE hubs designed in the project is to strengthen the sustainability-related professional capacity of company training and further education personnel at the learning locations of companies and inter-company training institutions. To this end, a developed and tested further training concept is used to qualify training and further training personnel. The developed "double multiplier approach" will be continued and stabilised in practice through Train-the-trainer courses with further education staff, the expansion of trainer pools in the BBNE hubs.

Funding Phase I

Funding:

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Social Fund are supporting the project with a total of 1,111,000 euros. Around 243,000 euros of the funding will go to the University of Erfurt .

Project partners:

• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Institute of Education, Department of Vocational and Business Education;
• University of Paderborn
  • AG Educational Science with a focus on vocational education;
  • Educational Science working group specialising in educational management and educational research in further education;
• IHK-Akademie Ostwestfalen gGmbH;
• Zukunftsfähiges Thüringen e.V.;
• ESD Agency (BNE-Agentur) Schleswig-Holstein

Project description:

In the ESD hubs project, existing and already tested educational interventions from successfully implemented pilot projects are transferred and further consolidated.

In a first step, two existing regional ESD networks (ESD hubs) will be expanded with experienced actors from previous projects and new partner institutions in the regions of East Westphalia (NRW) and Thuringia.

In a second step, a new BBNE network will be established in the Schleswig-Holstein region with new partners and stakeholders. The BBNE networks in East Westphalia and Thuringia will serve as adaptation templates and good-practice models.

The overarching goal of the BBNE hubs developed and established in the project is to strengthen the sustainability-related professional capacity of company training and further education staff. To this end, a training concept that has already been developed and tested (from the TraNaxis project) will be used to qualify training and further education staff. The dual multiplier approach developed in TraNaxis will be further consolidated in practice by organising train-the-trainer courses (further education staff) and developing and establishing trainer pools for the three BBNE hubs. The qualification of company training staff is ensured by the qualified trainers and implemented in a market-based manner by cooperating chambers and educational institutions (IHKs, HWKs and IHK training academies). The "Sustainability Officer for Training (IHK)" certificate course developed and trialled in TraNaxis serves as a template for this.