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.
Companies not only once again invest to a greater degree in the qualification of their employees. In the long term, one can in particular observe the trend of their growing interest in integrating the learning and qualification processes into the operational processes.
For most pupils, the transition from school to a professional career poses a great challenge. The schools already employ a host of approaches to prepare young people for their search for a vocational training position. Frequently, however, the pupils are neither equipped with the knowledge about the right behaviour during an interview nor towards superiors and colleagues in the working environment.
