Lernmodelle für Regionalmanager. Hilfestellungen und Ausbildungsmassnahmen

In general, extended education and complimentary vocational training seem to have gained rather widespread attention only fairly recently. Increasing professionalism in the field of regional development, arriving through the application of methods of regional management, have heightened the awareness of the need for purposeful schooling and further education and training. In this paper, the prerequisites considered essential for acquiring the know-how, nowadays indispensable in the specific context of regional development, are discussed and juxtaposed with traditional and, so far, accepted methods of education and training. Special focus is on "learning-by-doing" and "hands-on" projects providing a chance to relate to planning problems, both theoretically and practically, team learning, analogue learning, training regions, best-practice approaches, and benchmark testing, reflexive learning and retrospective studies concentrating on examples by means of fieldtrips, etc. In conclusion, a survey of selected educational institutions for future regional managers in German-speaking countries is presented.