INTEGRATING EDUCATION CONCEPTS - THE KOBLENZ REGION OFFERS A ONE-OF-A-KIND INFRASTRUCTURE TO LOCALIZE AND QUALIFY FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN ORDER TO ENSURE RELIABLE AND CONTINUOUS PROVISION OF BEST-SKILLED ENGINEERS TO THE REFRACTORY INDUSTRY.

摘要

The refractory industry suffers a lack of young engineers in Germany. Within the past five years an integrating education concept has been developed to ensure a sustainable provision of young and best-skilled engineers to the refractory industry. Theaim of this presentation is to demonstrate how the sophisticated network between education, science and refractory industryleads to efficient fulfilment of the industry?s demands.Because of a vertically open vocational education structure as provided by public legislation it is possible to promote young people even with initial limited educational achievements tofinish with an academic degree. The cooperative education network, BFZK (educational and research centre ceramics), which closely cooperates with Koblenz University of Applied Science and the University Koblenz-Landau, allows best possible utilisation of this public education structure.