Germany: boosting permeability between vocational training and higher education

Improving permeability between vocational training and higher education requires target-group-specific transition management. The procedures for crediting vocational competence towards university degree programmes piloted under the BMB-Initiative ANKOM (2005-08) were a critical milestone in this process. Phase 2 of the BMB-Initiative ANKOM was launched in 2012 and takes these results forward. Until 2014, 20 projects will pilot measures to support the target group of vocational-qualification holders and to develop and test transition models and course structures.