Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a higher education and research organisation with about 8,900 employees, 21,000 students, and a total annual budget of about 750 million Euros. KIT was established on 01/10/2009 as merger of Universität Karlsruhe (founded in 1825), one of Germany’s leading research universities, and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (founded in 1956), member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

The Institute of Vocational Education and Training (IBP) research comprises a wide array from competence development, organisational learning and innovation in (international) vocational education and training to technical didactics and a high competence on instructional design of media. The institutional work comprises also academic teaching for students becoming vocational school teachers and for students in pedagogics with emphasis on vocational education training (B.A. and M.A. level). Part of the Institute is the Research Group Engineering didactics which focuses mainly on engineering didactics, media use as well as learning and teaching assistance in vocational training, higher education and andragogy. They research group was involved in the Leonardo Da Vinci funded project “EuroPolytec” as well as in part-projects of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and Ministry of Science and Baden-Württemberg (MWK) funded project “KIC InnoEnergy”.

Key persons

Organization:  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Profile

Carmen studied Vocational Education and Training and General Pedagogics as main subject and English studies as minor subject at Stuttgart University from 2005 to 2008. She completed with the academic degree bachelor of arts. From 2008 till 2010 she studied General Pedagogics with focus on Vocational Education and Training at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and completed with the academic degree master of arts. Since 2011 she is academic staff at the Institute of vocational education and training at KIT and qualifies herself part-time as a certified professional business coach. Her research on coaching started with her master thesis and continues with her PhD project as well as the introduction of coaching into her teaching and the offer of free coaching for her students. Her main focus is systemic-solution-oriented and resource-oriented coaching, teaching and learning concepts, e-learning, e-coaching, microlearning and learning theories. Since beginning of 2013 she is accepted as a PhD-student at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Science at KIT and accomplished her further studies to be a certified professional business coach at Führungsakademie Baden-Württemberg (Leadership Academy Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe) in October 2013. The further study offer is certified by one of Germanys well-known and most influencing coaching federation “Deutscher Bundesverband für Coaching (DBVC e.V.) (German Federal Association for Executive Coaching)”. In beginning 2013 she started with a further study to become a "multimedia, virtual Coach" at the  Karlsruher Institut für Coaching, Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung (KIC; Karlsruhe Institute of Coaching, Human Ressource and Organisational Development).

She is responsible for e-coaching and for training facilitators at the workplace.

Organization:  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Since October 01, 2005, Dr. Gerd Gidion has been professor of engineering didactics at the Institute of Vocational Education and Training of the former University of Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has spezialized in vocational learning.