After three years of development, testing and evaluation, work on the INE toolbox has been successfully completed. It can be downloaded here from the BIBB materials page on the BBNE pilot projects.

The INE Toolbox guides small and medium-sized enterprises in planning and realising sustainability-oriented innovation projects and also effectively promotes the sustainability-oriented innovation skills of those involved in the innovation process.

The kick-off event for the project "Sustainable management between society, economy and education" took place on 23 November 2018. Scientific and non-scientific stakeholders came together to discuss the various findings and perspectives on sustainability, initially providing concrete impetus from the InnoNE pilot project. The results of the kick-off event also influenced the following discourse arenas. You can find more information about the project here.

The BBNE programme conference took place in Bonn on 22 and 23 October 2018 with the participation of the InnoNE pilot project team. In addition to the work specific to the funding lines, there was also an exchange with colleagues from funding lines I and III and their scientific support. Interesting presentations and a panel discussion rounded off the event.

As part of the Global Day of Action on 25 September 2018 under the motto we#act4sgds, results of the InnoNE pilot project will be presented at the 83rd conference of the Working Group for Empirical Pedagogical Research (AEPF).

On 13 August 2018, scientists from the pilot project "Vocational education and training for sustainable development 2015-2019" and representatives from industry, business and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) came together for an expert workshop.

The workshop was organised by f-bb, the Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training. Its aim is to develop indicators for a sustainable learning centre in collaboration with the scientists from the individual pilot projects. With the help of an appropriate set of tools, companies are to be enabled to document and reflect on their own sustainability activities within the framework of training. A link to the already familiar German Sustainability Code (DNK) is planned for this purpose.

Individual expert groups discussed how a corresponding instrument can support the development of companies into sustainable learning centres as part of vocational training for sustainable development (BBnE). In this context, formulation aids were developed and the importance of qualitative questions for the design of sustainable learning centres was discussed.

In a pleasant working atmosphere, the collected indicators were discussed in a targeted, constructive and critical manner despite the summer temperatures. It emerged that a set of indicators must take into account both the needs of the company and the perspective of vocational education and training - a challenge that the f-bb meets with an inductive approach.

The project, which is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, was launched on 1 August 2018. The aim is to consolidate the results of the InnoNE pilot project into a 3-level model of a sustainable economic system. You can find more information about the project here.

Videos on the team phases in the InnoNE pilot programme have been published on the InnoNE YouTube channel. In the videos, the methods are explained and concretised using an example. You can find the videos here.

The steering group of the GEKONAWI and InnoNE pilot projects met in Oldenburg on 11 September 2017. The members of the steering group gave a positive re-registering student for the planned changes to the INE toolbox as part of the first re-design phase. In addition, further important impulses were given in terms of public relations and broad impact.

The InnoNE team took part in the workshop Gestaltungsorientierte Forschung, which took place on 22.06.2017 in Bonn and was organised by BIBB. The centre of the workshop was the integration of research and innovation. This integration is a central goal of pilot project research. During the workshop, many important aspects were discussed that also play an important role in the InnoNE pilot project. For example, important insights were gained for further co-operation between science and practice. In addition, central challenges and areas of tension in design-orientated research were also jointly reflected upon, for example in the context of methodological principles. Overall, the workshop generated numerous impulses that will now be processed and ultimately integrated into the further work on the InnoNE pilot project.

The third meeting of the partner network "Academic Appointments and Further Education" took place on 13 June 2017 in Berlin with the participation of the InnoNE team. There was a lively exchange on important and current topics in the field of vocational education and training for sustainable development. Among other things, the status of the UNESCO Global Action Programme and international activities were reported on, measures to strengthen and further establish vocational education and training for sustainable development were discussed and connections between digitalisation and sustainability were discussed.

The steering group of the GEKONAWI and InnoNE pilot projects met in Oldenburg on 24 March 2017. The members of the steering group gave positive feedback on the initial design of the INE toolbox. On this basis, further steps were initiated to further expand and intensify the co-operation beyond the steering group.

On 16 February 2017, the first working forum for funding line II of the "Vocational education and training for sustainable development 2015 - 2019" funding priority took place at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training. In addition to representatives from the BIBB, the BMBF, the accompanying scientific research and the respective projects, representatives from the field were also present.

Through interviews with the respective project participants and practice partners, all attendees had the opportunity to gain an insight into the work and special features of all pilot projects. This allowed the impression gained at the kick-off event in September to be deepened and encouraged further dialogue. Later, a joint discussion took place on the topics of (1) implementing sustainability in the workplace, (2) anchoring sustainability in practice and (3) multipliers for sustainability. Both practice partners and participants from all projects contributed to the development of these topics, which meant that many perspectives were taken into account.

The working forum thus provided many suggestions/impulses for further work.

The steering group for the GEKONAWI and InnoNE pilot projects met for the first time on 25 November 2016 in Oldenburg. With their constructive comments and interesting contributions, the members of the steering group provided important impetus for further work in the pilot projects.

The kick-off event for the funding priority "Vocational education and training for sustainable development 2015 - 2019" took place at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training on 21 September 2016. In addition to representatives from the BIBB, the BMBF and the accompanying scientific research, participants from the 27 collaborative partners from the twelve pilot projects in funding lines I and II took part. The InnoNE pilot scheme was of course also represented.

The main focus of the event was getting to know each other and setting the course for future collaboration. To this end, a "marketplace" was organised where each pilot project was able to present itself. This gave all participants the opportunity to gain an initial impression of the other pilot schemes. Later, initial programmatic and conceptual aspects were developed with the respective accompanying scientific research in workshops differentiated according to funding lines.

The 2016 annual conference of the Vocational and Business Education section of the German Educational Research Association took place in Hamburg from 12 to 14 September. The overarching theme of the conference was "Positioning (in) the discipline".

At the conference, Dr Florian und Berding and Andreas Slopinski outlined the contribution that vocational and business education can make to sustainable development in their presentation "Sustainable innovation management and innovation competence - a basis for discussion on the transdisciplinary positioning of vocational education for sustainable development". It achieves this by understanding vocational education and training for sustainable development as a transdisciplinary field of research.

It is against this background that they located the InnoNE pilot project as a transdisciplinary research project. The InnoNE pilot project addresses a socially relevant problem area, generates knowledge that contributes to solving the problem of sustainability, actively involves non-scientific stakeholders in the research and development process and is characterised overall by mutual learning processes.

The joint project "Innovation projects and innovation competence for sustainable development" (InnoNE) was successfully launched in May 2016. It is being carried out jointly by the Department of Vocational and Business Education at the University of Oldenburg and the Professorship of Vocational and Work Education at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the "Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development 2015 - 2019" funding programme of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training.

InnoNE is one of six projects from funding line II, which focuses on the design of sustainable learning centres. Consequently, the InnoNE pilot project makes a valuable contribution to the implementation of priority action area 2 of the Global Action Programme "Holistic Transformation of Learning and Teaching Environments", as described in the UNESCO Roadmap to the Global Action Programme.