On June 1, 2018, the research project "Social Competence in the 3D Printer Training Project (SOKO3D)", funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi), was launched. The project is being carried out by the ITB in cooperation with Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG.

The Institute Technology and Education (ITB) of the University of Bremen is presenting the training portfolio of the "Kompetenzwerkstatt" (i.e. competence workshop) in so-called "user workshops" as part of the "Digital Media in Everyday Training" roadshow initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). The web-based training portfolio serves to support learning reflection and at the same time offers an online training certificate. The user workshops are conducted in cooperation with the Institute for Technical Education and University Didactics (ITBH) of the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg.

The project "Human and Logistics in Digitalization" (MeLoDi) was launched on 17 May 2018 at a one-day meeting in Leipzig with active participation of all partners.

The team accompanying the BMBF funding guideline for the internationalisation of VET (WB-IBB) held the first expert forum of the funding initiative together with the DLR project management organisation on 28 and 29 May 2018. The topic of the two-day meeting at the BMBF in Bonn was business model development based on the Canvas business model.