The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic (KMK) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) meet the challenge of the demographic change.
The training of professional competencies and the qualification of expert staff in practice-oriented training programmes are at the core of GECC’s activities, which has been opened on the premises of the German Centre Shanghai in May 2010 under the auspices of the Bavarian Minister of Economy Martin Zeil.
German companies observe that training offers in combination with additional qualifications as well as dual study programmes will remain very attractive for trainees in the future.
German schools in Equador, China and the Philippines won the competition "Students build bridges worldwide" for their work in the fields of dual vocational training, environmental protection and social responsibility.
The Federal Government supports the transition from school to vocational training or to university studies. Special programmes specifically aim at reducing the number of young people without school leaving certificate by 50 per cent.
The University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen and Siemens Professional Education (SPE) offer integrated qualification for future information technology specialists. The four-year programme prepares young people for a wide range of employment opportunities in the IT sector.
On April 29th and 30th iMOVE held the first British-German seminar on export of education and training. The bilateral event in Bonn was organised in cooperation with the British government organisations UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and TVET UK.
The seminar offered the British and German providers of education and training a unique opportunity to share their international experience and explore possibilities of future collaborative projects. It enabled an exchange of good practice and ideas between iMOVE and its British counterpart TVET UK and UKTI's Education and Skills Sector.
The German federal state of Bavaria currently invests more in vocational education and training than ever before. Bavaria’s Economics Minister Martin Zeil highlights the importance of the investments for his federal state.
