At the end of January 2016, representatives from the Indian Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), iMOVE and the Occupational Training Organisation of the Construction Industry in Saxony (BFW) formed a management group to support the establishment of two Advanced Training Institutes (ATI's) for energy efficient construction in India.
MSDE representatives came to Dresden for the occasion and for a fact-finding mission on training in the German construction industry.
The aim is for the management group to assist with the activities of a bilateral project to establish two ATI's for energy-efficient construction technologies in India.
iMOVE is represented in the management group via the iMOVE office in India.
The Indian ministry stated that the locations for the ATI's would be the cities of Howrah und Jamshedpur in the East of the country. The aim in future was to use these facilities to train master trainers, that is to say trainers who train trainers.
The objective is that this measure will raise the quality of VET in the construction sector to a new level right across India whilst also taking the requirements of energy-efficient building into account.
Representatives from the MSDE undertook a fact-finding mission in Dresden in order to acquire information on vocational education and training in the German construction sector.
During a tour of the inter-company training centre in Dresden, the Indian visitors were particularly interested in the new production halls. These were erected in 2013 and comply with the standards which relate to low-energy houses and passive houses.
The halls offer trainees state-of-the-art conditions whilst also according due consideration to energy requirements The trainees learn about such aspects via a robustly implemented pedagogical concept.
The next stage of this Indian-German cooperation project in the construction industry is scheduled to take place in March in Howrah and Jamshedpur, where further details of the desired general structural conditions for the ATI's will be defined.
Finally, the implementation concept will be drawn up on the basis of a SWOT analysis [SWOT: strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats].