CET - Center for European Trainees launched

More and more companies have recognised the benefits of an international workforce and provide training for young apprentices from southern Europe. That way, businesses offer young people from countries with high youth unemployment rates sustainable employment opportunities. The CET - Center for European Trainees was established in June 2014 by the Bildungswerk der Baden-Württembergischen Wirtschaft e. V. (Training Institute of the Baden-Württemberg industry, reg. ass.) to support these businesses in a targeted manner.

The CET is funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and is co-funded by Arbeitgeber Baden-Württemberg, the federal state employers' association. It is a central service centre in Baden-Württemberg for the internationalisation of vocational education and training, for the development of dual system vocational education and training programmes in Italy and Spain, and for promoting the vocational training provision of young adults from those countries in Baden-Württemberg.

It provides information, advice and support. The aim is to bundle the knowledge and experience of individual stakeholders such as businesses, chambers and associations and to create transparency in and outside the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg.

The development of dual system and practice-oriented vocational education and training programmes in Italy and Spain, the qualification of people with personnel and training responsibilities in these countries as well as the networking of businesses in Baden-Württemberg with young Spanish and Italian people interested in an apprenticeship share a common goal: to make a contribution to reducing youth unemployment in Europe and to ensure the skilled labour supply at home. The aim is to establish the CET as a permanent institution; other countries may be included in the centre's work in a second step.