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  Ensuring Equal Opportunities by Means of BAföG

  How can I finance my study course? An answer to this question is given by the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG). The 22. BAföG Amendment allows further improvements: BAföG rates are raised, the monthly limits on additional earnings are extended to 400 Euros. Students with children are supported with a special bonus. The first parts of the amendment became effective at the beginning of 2008. BAföG support is therefore an important element in encouraging more young people to take up studies and undergo qualified training. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/892.php)
   
  
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  Educational Research

  An empirically founded educational research is necessary for the development of the education system. The Federal Government will support the Länder in their reform of the education system through a stronger commitment into educational research. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/6880.php)
   
  
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  Continuing training

  The BMBF supports workers and companies in their efforts to rise to new challenges confronting them in the working world. It supports continuing vocational training and upgrading training.  more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/1366.php)
   
  
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  Educational Savings Plans: Models for New Ways of Financing

  Earning the right qualification and keeping it up to date are decisive factors for a successful career. However, Germany is only in mid-table in the current OECD education study on lifelong learning. To support people as efficiently as possible in their lifelong learning, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has commissioned two studies, which have now presented their results. In their studies, the experts have developed a model, which provides for three new support programmes. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/7342.php)
   
  
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  JOBSTARTER: a funding programme for more training places

  The BMBF is providing funding for training places. There are special funding programmes for mobilizing training places in companies and for financing additional training places. With the "JOBSTARTER – Training for the Future" programme existing programmes are given a new orientation. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/2313.php)
   
  
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  Training Campaign

  The Federal Government's Training Campaign pursues the objective of improving the training place situation in the long term; at the same time, it is a central element for the implementation of the Federal Government's supportive activities agreed in the "National Pact for Training and Young Skilled Staff in Germany". Different measures are to support industry in creating training places. This applies, in particular, to regions with a comparatively poor ratio between demand for and supply of training places. At the same time, more training places are to be created in future-oriented branches and in the area of new technologies. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/ausbildungsoffensive.php)
   

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  International Marketing for Initial and Continuing Vocational Training

  "Training Made in Germany" stands for the internationally recognized quality of the German initial and continuing vocational training system. Continuing vocational training is increasingly becoming an international service product. The BMBF therefore supports marketing for "Training Made in Germany" with the establishment of the iMOVE office. The objective of iMOVE is to contribute to preparing German programmes of continuing vocational training for the international competition by means of special measures, and to position them increasingly on the international market of continuing training. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/887.php)
   
  
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  All-day schools. Time for more.

  The capital investment program "Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung" is a federal measure to support the Länder in building up and expanding all-day schooling in Germany. The program is one step in an educational reform supported by federal and state governments. To date, about 3.000 schools profit from the capital investment program. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/1125.php)
   

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  The Bologna Process

  Students and researchers are more mobile, more flexible and more international than ever before. Knowledge knows no national frontiers. Internationalization is a pacemaker for reform and for the development and modernization of the higher education system. The institutions of higher education must assert themselves in the international competition for the best brains. At their meeting in Bologna in 1999, Germany and its European neighbours set themselves the goal of establishing a common European higher education area by the year 2010. The Bologna Process is probably the most far-reaching university reform in recent times. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/3336.php)
   
  

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  Germany's educational system at a glance

  Responsibility for the German education system is determined by the federal structure of the state. Under the Basic Law (Grundgesetz) the exercise of governmental powers and the fulfilment of governmental responsibility is incumbent upon the individual Länder as far as the Basic Law does not allow for any other arrangement. With its different school types and the vocational trainig system, the German education system is somewhat distinct from others. The following overview serves as an introduction and orientation. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/4761.php)
   
  
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  Research at Universities of Applied Sciences

  Together the BMBF supports within the framework of the FH3 programme, application-oriented research of universities of applied sciences in collaboration with industry. A new round of funding has started. Applications can be made until the end of January 2006. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/864.php)
   
  
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  Higher Education

  The Federal Government supports institutions of higher education in preparing for the new requirements resulting from the internationalization of higher education and the growing competition. more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/655.php)
   
  
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  International Cooperation in Education

  Studying in a Europe without borders? Doing part of one's training in another country? All this has become possible by means of international cooperation in education. The BMBF is an important player at European level and beyond.  more (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/en/699.php)