Resulting from a strong working relationship between iMOVE and the Indian Ministry of Labor and Employment (MoL&E), the Indian Government decided to issue an invitation to tender on training of trainer courses via iMOVE in Germany.
This decision is one result of the Indo-German Joint Working Group on Vocational Education and Training, headed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the MoL&E.
Earlier, the two ministers had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the cooperation in vocational education and training. The Indian government entrusts iMOVE to launch a tender on training of trainer courses among German training providers, because the MoL&E is convinced of the high quality of German training provisions. In conducting the tender, iMOVE follows the strict and transparent German procurement rules as applicable.
Beginning in March 2012, MoL&E and iMOVE will publish the first tender. Experiences with pilot tenders will hopefully lead to more calls in the future. The procedure could thus become a valuable example also for other international partners of iMOVE.
Sufficient and well-trained trainers in Industrial Training Institutes, for private training facilities and for in-company training are considered the bottleneck for the ambitious plan of the Indian government to train 500 million people by 2022. In order to increase the impact of the measure, the selected trainers will act as master trainers and multipliers in their respective institutions.
For the first batch, there will be two groups of trainers: one in modern automotive technology, based on the car mechatronics scheme, and one in modern processes of metal cutting technologies and metrology. The training will be practice-oriented. Both groups will also attend classes on vocational education science and pedagogy.