Experts believe that the German labour market can accommodate 350,000 refugees per year. But how can integration be achieved in specific terms? The German Confederation of Skilled Crafts has now presented a special training programme which aims to make refugees ready for training.
Low-skilled workers who undertake continuing vocational training will soon be rewarded with a bonus. Successful completion of interim and final examinations will attract payments of €1,000 and €1,500 respectively. Grants are available to workers at small and medium-sized companies who pursue continuing training outside working hours.
The Federal Ministry of Education, the Federal Employment Agency and the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts have launched an initiative which aims to see 10,000 young refugees begin company-based training in the craft trades by the spring of 2018
The German Federal State of Rhineland Palatinate and the German-speaking Community in Belgium are seeking to expand vocational education and training across the border.
The Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the German Association of Certified Industrial Foremen are seeking to collaborate even more closely in future in the field of management training in private sector technical occupations.
Since January this year, Volkswagen has been offering German standard training in the occupation of mechatronics fitter in Brazil in conjunction with five companies that is to say Kostal, ZF, Grob, Mahle and ThyssenKrupp. The programme for the first 20 trainees began at Volkswagen in Sao Paulo.
