Study visit to Germany
The winners of TVET National Award 2018
visited Germany for one-week study tour.
On the first day of the visit, the
participants were introduced to German railway - Deutsche Bahn AG training centre and the academy.
They learned about the experience of German company in theoretical and
practical training of new personnel, visited the infrastructure and simulators
of the learning centre and had a possibility to talk with the students and
apprentices of the centre.
On the second day, the participants
visited the company Festo, a worldwide leader in professional,
industry-oriented qualification solutions for process and factory automation.
The participants visited the training center of Festo and learned about the dual
education system. The participants were also able to visit one of the state-of-art
factories, run by Industry 4.0 technology.
The winners visited one of the largest
education fairs - Didacta in Cologne, which is annually attended by around 800
German and European exhibitors from all educational sectors, representing
providers of modern learning materials, laboratories and simulators.
At the end of the visit, the participants
visited the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Manheim
and vocational college of Oberhausen, Hans-Sachs-Berufskolleg. In the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
Manheim, the participants were introduced to the role and responsibilities of
chamber in dual education process. In vocational college, the participants had
the opportunity to learn about the different levels of dual and vocational
education and visited the college infrastructure.
The winners of TVET National Award 2018 are:
Tamar Gogrichiani from the vocational college ICARUS (category - TVET student
of the year), Ia Mosashvili, teacher at Georgian Technical Training Center
under the Georgian Technical University (category -TVET professional of the
year), Nona Gudushauri, the Director of college MERMISI (category - TVET
provider of the year) and Nino Chkhaidze, HR Management and Development
Director at JSC Georgian Railway (category - TVET Business partner of the
year).
The competition was organized by the
"Industry-led Skills and Workforce Development” project of Millennium Challenge
Account - Georgia. The main sponsor of the competition is
Gudavadze-Patarkatsishvili Foundation.