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Today the “loose leaf collection” technology serves as multimedia reference book with complete basic knowledge of electro-technology and mechanical engineering. For several years, latest specialized components are also offered for the database.

Christiani database – the technology bestseller

In 1956, Christiani published the “Ausbau” calendar. This book of formulae and tables for the technology was a great success among the former students and was thus allowed into the enterprises also. The “Ausbau” calendar was published from 1970 in “loose-leaf” form under the new name “Christiani Datenbank” (Christiani database).

The first published ‘object’ from Christiani was the technical journal “Ausbau”. It was published for the first time in 1940 and was later changed to “Technik heute” (‘Technology today’) in 1979 as a multidisciplinary magazine for all engineers. From time to time, the magazine has had ten thousand subscribers.

Speciality publishing house rich in tradition and with an exciting future

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75 years of Christiani – this also means a glance into the success story of a publishing house span-ning a decade. From the time it was founded till today, publications for advanced vocational train-ing courses of Christiani were always at par with the relevant technological development.

75 years of Christiani – this also means a glance into the success story of a publishing house spanning a decade. From the time it was founded till today, publications for advanced vocational training courses of Christiani were always at par with the relevant technological development.

If the publishing house was a “single-pro-vider” in the subjects, metal and electro technol-ogy some years ago, the last ten years has seen an extensive increase in its competitors. With the introduction of new technologies, the require-ments for modern teaching materials in the enter-prises and schools also grew simultaneously. The publishing house bravely took on this challenge. Over decades, successful products and individual development measures were employed for didac-tics & personnel, IT, SHK, economics & admin-istration, electro-technology, metal technology, automation technology, automobile technology, construction, colour and wood technology as well as for the chemical technology. Today, Christiani offers materials in all the modern technologies and topics like SPS, CAD/CAM, Voiceover IP or EIB, to name just a few.

New technologies, new teaching concepts and modern education sciences characterise the teaching aids and teaching materials from the house of Christiani and the development contin-ues at a fast pace – we have taken up the chal-lenge of successfully supporting our customers in future also.

Our publishing house program: Components for a successful vocational training

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In cooperation with the PAL (Institution of Development for Examination Exercises and Teaching Aids of the Chamber of Commerce, Stuttgart), the first books of the so-called PAL ques-tion bank was published in 1974. These books contained multiple-choice exercises for revision in the industrial and technical occupations.

The division of media develop-ment and our authors have suc-cessfully introduced a range of topics in the market. The media mix - a combination of book and CD is also becoming important during didactic preparation. We increasingly offer those media also, which supports an instruc-tor in his new role as “coach” for the apprentices.

Besides 14 fundamental modules in the metal technology, our Multimedia team has now also worked out 14 fundamental modules of electro-technology and has implemented it as CBT Computer Based Training as well as WBT Web Based Training.

Work examples of our author teams. It comprises vocational school teachers, lecturers of technical universities and colleg-es of higher education, instruc-tors and experts from industrial and technical occupations.

Something that the Christiani teaching materials have always excelled in is the “currentness” of the contents as well as their practice-oriented format. The experts of vocational training know: Christiani always offers high quality.

The range of topics offered by the publishing house is special-ized and constantly on the upgrade. Christiani has brought about successful developments of several topics. Quality is not just a fluke: The publishing house team presently comprises technicians, engineers and publishing experts, who develop new projects hand in hand. New and challenging paths are taken again and again. In 1997 itself, we had founded an in-house multimedia team with the aim of interactively providing the teaching contents on CD also. We have successfully mastered this didactic challenge also. Currently, Christiani offers the most comprehensive program for interactive media in technical field. The media mix of book and CD also proved to be extremely successful.

Our aim is to be able to provide the widest range of services with the highest quality to our customers in the industrial and technical field!

In 2000, we took over the technical journal, “Bil-dungspraxis” (educational practice). With a quarterly edition of 10,000 copies each, we provide the educational market with important information on vocational training.

For the member journal “Der Berufsausbilder” (The vocational trainer) of the National Association of German Vocational Trainers, we undertake the complete execution of composition, editing, printing and dispatch since 01.01.2004.

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We develop many of our products jointly with our cooperation partners in the business. Consequently, we can offer the highest possible practice-oriented instructions to the enterprises right while they are being trained.

One more important “pillar of strength” of the publishing house is the collaboration with the BIBB Federal institute for Vocational Education / Bonn. Right from 2000, we have been marketing and updating the training media of BIBB.

Christiani is also a very valued customer in the other publishing houses: We constantly test the media of our competitors and include them in our publishing program if they are suitable. Thus, our customers can be informed and served from a wide range of publishing services.

Several major groups create top-class educational media for their trainings. We cooperate here with these organisations and thus provide them access to a wide market.

The product pillars of the Christiani publishing house: Self-developments trends with own specialized

authors

Joint developments with cooperation partners from the business field

Purchase from specialized publishing houses, test-ing and implementation in the Christiani range

Marketing and production of teaching aids for com-panies

BIBB (Updation, creation and marketing )

One of my first and most

difficult tasks as the new

president of the Federal Institute

for Vocational Education (BIBB)

was to find a reliable partner

for conceptualising, developing,

designing and marketing our media, learning

and teaching aids for implementing vocational

training. Intelligent BIBB employees advised me

to opt for Christiani after an extensive, objective

and competitive bidding procedure.

We took the right decision at that time: with

accuracy, creativity, economic and innovative

intelligence and using friendly cooperation,

the “Christianis” – as I like to call them – have

promoted our BIBB media to a professionally

renowned and profitable market factor of

advanced vocational training. Thanks a lot and

keep it up!

Prof. Dr. Helmut PützPresident (rtd.) of BIBB 1998-2005,

Senator (hon.)

We heartily congratulate

Christiani on the occasion of

their 75th anniversary! It was

a good decision to hand over

the marketing of our “Gelbe

Reihe” (“Yellow Series”) to you.

Your product assortment containing theoretical

and practical teaching aids makes you an ideal

partner for training. We are impressed by the

dynamics and the consistency, with which you

pursue your goals. We hope that the successful

and cordial cooperation continues for a long time.

Gerhard Kopany Team leader of Technical publications,

Robert Bosch GmbH