Important step towards more inclusion

The vocational education and training provision of the Duisburg Werkstatt für Menschen mit Behinderung (Workshop for People with Disabilities) strikes a new path with the compilation of framework training programmes. The transition to the first employment market is to be made easier.

The expert instructors of the individual departments have compiled training programmes in co-operation with five other workshops in the Lower Rhine region. Modules have been created for the fields of carpentry, warehouse specialist, gardening and landscaping, metal and wood workshop, print and media designer, motorcycle mechanics, cook and restaurant specialist, that enable people with disabilities to learn and train with focus on the occupation and employment market. In a joint conference of the workshop management boards, the framework training programmes of the individual workshops were united and formally presented.

The new element in this occupational qualification is the inclusive approach to vocational education and training. Full training provision is the basis for all occupational fields in the training delivery at the workshops for people with disabilities. This gives the workshops the chance to provide qualifications also amongst each other on the basis of the same standards. Roselyne Rogg, Managing Director of the Duisburg workshop, welcomes the development and the co-operation of the workshops within the network Berufliche Inklusion Niederrhein (Occupational Inclusion Lower Rhine): "With this approach to vocational education and training, we take another important step towards more inclusion and comparability on the general employment market."

Markus Kleine-Besten, chef at the restaurant "Der Kleine Prinz" is involved in compiling the framework training programme for cooks and makes an important contribution to training at the restaurant with the individual training modules. He says, "The participants in the vocational education programme thus receive a good basis to meet the challenges during an internship or to use "Der Kleine Prinz" as a stepping stone for an occupational perspective on the general employment market."