Germany - Pilot projects: Instruments for innovation in vocational education and training

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The extracurricular pilot projects which the German government supports on the basis of Section 90 (3) No. 1 d) of the Vocational Training Act are an instrument for the qualitative development of and research into initial and continuing vocational training.

Pilot projects shape societal and company trends, address relevant topics and function as experimental laboratories for technical and occupational development and the acquisition of knowledge and information for use as examples in the design of overarching education policy initiatives.