Logistics as a domain of application for the "Internet of Things" in the early identification initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

The main objective of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's initiative for early identification of skill needs is to pinpoint the skills and qualifications required for the new skill requirements emerging from impending changes in the world of work and for which widespread demand may well grow over the next three to five years. For the purposes of the BMBF early identification initiative, employees with intermediate level skills are primarily those people in gainful employment who have completed vocational training in a nationally recognised occupation or school-based vocational training which is regulated at the state (Land) level as well as trained employees who have completed further training to the master craftsman or technician level.