International Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Transfer Project – Theoretical-Practical Experiences of Workplace Training with the Workforce in the Egyptian Construction Industry

The Water-Energy-Building – Training and Transfer (WEB-TT) project was funded since the beginning of 2011 for a three-year period. The main goal was to develop appropriate training modules for the Egyptian construction industries. The project WEB-TT focused on the improvement of the highest level of construction workers not on qualification of engineers. For the different ends of this improvement, adapted training measures need to be formulated. Their formulation in turn requires an exact knowledge of the present demand for training measures by the management of the company and the environment in which the measurements will be embedded. The concepts of training transferred from Germany to Egypt would adapted to the different context of the Egyptian side. Therefore, and because of the specific circumstances of the project starting at similar times with the Egyptian revolution in the Arabian spring specific theoretical approaches of understand the policy transfer process in TVET. The theoretical concepts are explained and reflected on the experiences of the practical transfer project. The results of the successful transfer project WEB-TT were illustrated and with the conclusion further research needs to better understanding of the process of policy transfer in TVET were outlined.