Silvia Annen studied Business and Human Resource Education at the University of Cologne. She finished her PhD-Project (Recognition of competences – comparison of selected approaches in Europe) in Social Sciences at the University of Cologne in June 2011 and will publish her dissertation within the next months. In 2006 and 2007, she worked within a research-project on recognition of vocational qualifications and competences in a higher educational context (“ANKOM”-project) which was focused on permeability between vocational and higher education. Since 2007, she is a researcher at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn, Germany. Besides the development, implementation and evaluation of curricula for vocational education and training in the dual system and in further education in Germany she also gained research experience within the research-project ‘credit-systems as an instrument to advance lifelong learning’ (2009-2012) which analyses the development of credit-systems in Germany, Denmark, Scotland and the Netherlands. In 2010, she worked out the German national report for the ‘European inventory on validation of non formal and informal learning’. She presented her work within diverse international conferences (DECOWE 2009 Ljubljana, IASK 2009 Porto, ECER 2010 Helsinki, IASK 2010 Sevilla, IACSEE 2011 Bath).

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