Prof. Dr. phil. Franz Kaiser

Institute for Vocational Education / University of Rostock, Germany

Keynote title: The non-sustainable presence requires a reorientation of VET teachers education

Franz Kaiser is a professor and the founding director of the Vocational Education Institute at the University of Rostock. He oversees vocational teacher and adult studies. He's on the European VETnet Board, the VET & Culture Network and the German trade unions' Scientific Advisory Group. He was a senior researcher at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) in Bonn for 15 years. He focused there supporting disadvantaged people in VET , implementing sustainability goals and designing training regulations and exams. With a focus on comparative VET teacher education and research, he has made several visits to Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland in recent years

His research covers VET teacher tasks, training design, and a critical social/educational VET perspective. His academic teaching includes experiments with humanistic psychology, action learning and hybrid settings.

Website in German: https://www.ibp.uni-rostock.de/franz-kaiser/  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/franz-kaiser-8096879b?trk=pprof-feed

Orcid: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-6569-2552

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Franz-Kaiser