Official Opening and Welcome -- 1. Educational Strategies for Technology Education -- The development of technology education in New Zealand -- Technology education in Germany's gymnasia -- Perspectives and concepts in the Swedish national curriculum for technology - and a modest proposal for a general model that will explain it all - hopefully -- A new curriculum for technology education in Schleswig-Holstein -- New education law, new curriculum -- Research in Technology Education: some insights -- 2. Human Resource Development for Technology Education -- HRD, Innovative and Integrative Thinking of Education for Life -- Minds 2000+: Innovations in global change as part of technology education -- Key qualifications - contents of general and vocational education -- Strategies, methods and principles of development thinking -- Cognitive structure of technology subjects for deciding instructional design and learning preferences -- Psychohygiene in a manager's work -- 3. Methods, Didactics and Equipment for Technology Education -- Developing a competency to act within networked systems -- New approaches towards interdisciplinary technological enlightenment -- Didactical structure of the technological culture -- A teaching strategy to promote student confidence and creativity in the design and prototyping of digital electronic systems -- The ontdekplek -- The teaching laboratory as a meaningful environment -- 4. Educational Innovations for Technology Education -- Education to teamwork in building technology MHPO - method holistic participation - a contribution to technology education -- Management and innovation -- Technological education and innovation in connection with tendencies of a world that is changing -- Integration as an innovation course in the education concerning all fields of technology -- Methodological initiation aspects of educational innovation -- Innovation in initial teacher training: an analysis of benefits, costs and resource-related opportunities -- 5. School-Industry-Link-Projects -- Technology education, innovation and management -- Are we making technology education attractive to our students? -- Economic and industrial understanding as part of design and technology education in the primary curriculum -- Working with industry to enhance technology education -- School and economy - first steps in Hungary -- 6. Experiences of Implementing Technology Education into Cultural Context -- The objects and tasks of technology education in comprehensive schools in the Czech Republic -- Development and implementation of a model for technology education in South Africa - the ORT-STEP experience -- Present days problems of technology education in Slovakia -- European supporting programmes - experiences in the field of education and training from the view of East German universities and enterprises -- Building of a technical educational system of a non-university type in Slovakia -- What factors will influence the wider implementation of technology education in South African Schools? -- The introduction of technology laboratories into schools in the disadvantaged communities of the Republic of South Africa -- Conference Paper Presentations: Summary -- Resolution Adopted by the Conference -- List of Participants.