Over a period of three years, the BMBF-funded project focussed on typical occupational stress, cooperative requirements and training conditions for nursing staff and aimed to record and specifically promote skills in dealing with stress and cooperative skills. Now that the data collection has been completed, findings are available that were presented at this final conference and discussed together with nurses, practice instructors, nursing teachers and researchers.

A joint event organised by the Universities of Münster, Dresden, Hanover and Tübingen

The Vocational Education Working Group is involved in the planning and realisation of the online event series. Further information on the expert talks can be found on the website of the University of Tübingen. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Weyland is responsible for the following events together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Holodynski:

• Videos in teacher training (02.02.22)
• Recruiting and promoting competent teachers (15/06/22)

On December 3, 2021, an online symposium was held as part of the BMBF-funded project "Extended competence measurement in the healthcare sector (EKGe)".
Among other things, the EKGe project deals with typical occupational stress, cooperative requirements and training conditions for nursing staff and aims to record and specifically promote competences in dealing with stress and cooperative competences.
From the perspective of science-practice cooperation, the competence modelling for the competence to cope with stressful situations typical of the profession and for closely coordinated interprofessional cooperation and key interim results were first presented.
In the subsequent workshops and panel discussion, areas of application and concrete possibilities for implementing the project results in training practice were discussed and explored. The results presented were very well received by the participants of the symposium.

The Vocational Education and Training Research Network (AG BFN) dedicated a virtual event on 28 and 29 October 2021 to the topic of "Digitalisation in the healthcare professions". The high number of participants confirmed the topicality of the subject and the need for scientific discourse and practice-related exchange. Over the two days, a total of 290 people engaged intensively with digitalisation and digitality in the healthcare professions.
The forum, which was organised by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Weyland and Dr. Wilhelm Koschel (IfE, Institute of Education) on behalf of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) together with Prof. Dr. Karin Reiber (Esslingen University of Applied Sciences) and BIBB’s work area 2.6 (Dr. Lena Dorin & Dr. Miriam Peters), brought together participants from academia, politics and education and vocational training practice.
Digital technologies are now an integral part of many areas of life. Their integration is leading to changes in the way we communicate, learn and work. Digitalisation presents the healthcare professions with a wide range of changes and challenges, but these should also be seen as an opportunity. Michaela Evans (Institut Arbeit und Technik, Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen) focused on the demands placed on vocational education and training by digitalisation with her keynote speech "Digitality and digitalisation in healthcare professions: What demands do new work and organisational contexts place on vocational education and training?" to kick off the conference. In addition to scientific findings on "Digitalisation in the healthcare professions", the subsequent panels also addressed digitalisation-related experiences from professional practice in the healthcare and nursing professions and educational practice. The focus was on three main topics: (1) digitality in nursing and healthcare professions, (2) professionalisation of educational staff in the context of healthcare professions and (3) digitally supported teaching and learning scenarios in the healthcare professions. Prof Dr Eveline Wittmann (TU Munich) opened the second day with her keynote speech "Making digital change in vocational education tangible". The parallel panels of the first day were also very well attended on Friday and were supplemented by a virtual poster session.
As part of the virtual event, the Friedrich Edding Prize for Vocational Education and Training Research was awarded in the evening by Prof. Dr. Hubert Ertl (Research Director of BIBB and member of the AG BFN Board). Dr. Svenja Ohlemann and Dr. Laura Menze were honoured for their outstanding dissertations.
The conference team can look back with great satisfaction on a successful event, which offered the opportunity to critically and constructively discuss exciting contributions from science and vocational education and training practice and to set new impulses together. This was also made clear by the large number of participants in the conference evaluation. Contributions from the conference will be documented in a review-based publication.