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At the annual conference of the Division for Vocational Education from September 26th – September, 28th in Freiburg, the master's thesis of Mr. Keno Kramer (graduate of Business and Economics Education at the Faculty of Business and Management Science at Leipzig University) was awarded with the prize of the Käthe and Ulrich Pleiß Foundation. The prize is annually granted to excellent theses in the field of business education in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This award comprises a prize money of 500 €. The work of Mr. Kramer (supervisor Prof. Dr. Roland Happ) used a qualitative research design to investigate the implementation of the new vocational training program "Management Assistant in E-Commerce" from the teachers' point of view. Further information about the foundation can be found here.