Education concept 2015: The year of "Assisted Training"

As early as last year, the 7th "National Integration Summit" decided to provide supervision for 10,000 apprenticeship placements. The goal: to help young people with difficulties in completing a vocational education and training course in the regular manner or in finding an apprenticeship placement in the first place.

The skilled labour shortage is an increasingly urgent issue, especially in the non-academic field. In the eyes of Claudius Marx, Managing Director of the IHK Hochrhein-Bodensee Chamber of Industry and Commerce, assisted training is an important instrument in counteracting this development:

"One could indeed say that this is a win-win situation, because, on the one hand, a young person who may have learning difficulties or comes from a socially disadvantaged background is actually given a chance and, on the other, we gain an urgently required skilled professional if the programme proves to be successful. This makes it doubly positive."

This is why industry associations such as the chambers of industry and commerce intend to provide increased support for the "Assisted Training" project in future and to encourage businesses providing vocational training to take on young people who are given "assistance".

"We expect policy makers to support us in this and to provide us with the resources allowing the implementation of such programmes also from a financial point of view, because this is a matter of individual cases. Each person has to be attended to individually. What are the weaknesses? Where do the opportunities lie? And how to make the apprentice best fit the business?"