Michael Seidel

Topic:Draft version: “Blended-learning as an innovative approach for career training in the construction sector”
Company: Bildungszentren des Baugewerbes e.V. (BZB), Krefeld, GERMANY
TVET Centres of Competence for the construction sector

• Modularized professional career training for foremen / building supervisors
  / master craftsmen offered as blended-learning approach (70%
  as “traditional face to face teaching” and 30 % via currently 200 web- or
  computer based learning modules / online conferences);
  
• TVET training courses for “regular” apprentices in 15 building trades;
  
• Preparatory on-the job trainings / internships for school- leavers /
  “drop- outs”;
  
• Further training seminars for architects, civil engineers and construction
  site managers in various fields: advanced and cost-efficient construction
  technologies, maintenance and energy-efficient building refurbishment,
  environmental protection technologies, health and safety measures on site,
  preventive fire protection;

• 500 participants per day;
  
• 100.000 training days per year;

• Ethiopia 2000–2006 / GTZ (Consultation on occupational standards,
  curriculum development, organisation and management of TVET Centres of
  Competence, implementation of training- on the job schemes on low-costhousing
  construction sites;
  
• Egypt 2007 / GTZ - (curriculum development, train the trainer courses,
  development of training and learning material);
  
• Other project references: Russia, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Mongolia,
  Laos, Uzbekistan and various EU TVET- programmes;

Kurzbiographie / CV abstract
Dipl.-Ing. Michael Seidel
Leiter Technologie- Transfer- Stelle
Head of technology-transfer- section

• Dipl. Ing. Architektur (FH);
  
• Zimmermeister;
  
• Betriebswirt des Handwerks;
  
• Geselle im Maurer-, Stahlbetonbauer- und Zimmererhandwerk;
  
• 15 Jahre qualifikationsadäquate Berufserfahrung im In- und Ausland (Projekte der Beruflichen
  Bildung/ Beschäftigungsförderung sowie Infrastrukturmaßnahmen in Äthiopien,
  Kosovo, Bulgarien, Burkina Faso und Israel/ Palästina);
  
• Verhandlungssicheres (Fach-)Englisch/ gute Französisch- Kenntnisse;
  
• 40 Jahre alt;
  
• Graduate engineer Architecture;
  
• Master carpenter;
  
• Certified specialist business economics in trade;
  
• Certificates of apprenticeship as mason, reinforced concrete worker and carpenter;
  
• 15 years of proven working experience in Germany and international TVET cooperation
  and infrastructure projects in Ethiopia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso and Israel/
  Palestine)
  
• Fluent in English/ good command of French;
  
• Age 40 years;