The "Ausbildungs-Ass" ("Vocational Education Ace") award is granted for the fifteenth time already this year and goes to a total of twelve enterprises and vocational training initiatives. The aim of the award is to provide recognition of outstanding commitment in preparing young people for their professional life.
On 2 July 2013 the 42nd professional skills competition will kick off in Leipzig. For seven consecutive days, the best apprentices and young skilled workers from more than 50 nations compete to determine who is the best in the world. The event is hosted by WorldSkills, the international association for vocational education.
On 8 November 2011 in Cologne, the Essen-based entrepreneur Heinrich Deichmann, CEO of the largest European shoe retail chain DEICHMANN, awarded eleven projects with the company's sponsorship award against juvenile unemployment and granted funds totalling 100,000 Euro.
The State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), Dr Bernhard Heitzer, presented the results of the "KMU-MINT" project in Berlin.
In the context of a meeting of experts with consultants to and representatives of the crafts organisation, three experts from the Institut für Technik der Betriebsführung (itb - Management Technique Institute) in Karlsruhe presented the results of their study on the topic of "Export of Educational Services", that was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The specialists for leather processing occupy a small, exclusive niche in the world of occupations requiring vocational training. In the whole of Germany, some 60 apprentices are trained as shoe experts each year, most of which are women. Now the vocational training has been reorganised.
With its initiative of regularly presenting companies that provide vocational training, the Chamber of Crafts Koblenz acknowledges the exemplary commitment to providing vocational training on part of its 18,845 member businesses.
