Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Germany
Volker Rein is a social scientist specialized on developments in education and training systems and policy as well as on skills requirements in Germany, in Europe and in the US. He is working as a senior research associate and as an advisor at the BIBB Department of Professional Learning and Teaching in Bonn, Germany. His special focus is on the interface between HE and VET and their compatibility potential in terms of competence orientation (http://www.bwpat.de/ausgabe23/rein_en_bwpat23.pdf.) He has long term experiences in R&D as well as in advisory work on competence oriented qualification standards and transparency instruments (qualifications frameworks, recognition of prior learning, credit transfer etc.) in Germany and the European Union since 1999. He contributed to the implementation of the Bologna Process (EHEA) at university level and in the development of the European and the German Qualifications Frameworks for Lifelong Learning since 2004. Furthermore he advised the development of the Degree Qualifications Profile and an overarching Credentials Framework in the US in terms of the HE/VET intersection.
