News about VET from Germany

The MobiPro-EU project is opening up new horizons for young Spaniards and Italians. Their home countries have been battling youth unemployment rates of almost 50 per cent for years now. By training in a craft trade, these young people are setting the course for a successful future career.

Last year, the E-Mas joint project was launched at the FIR Institute for Industrial Management at RWTH Aachen University. The objective of the E-Mas programme is to create comprehensive continuing education provision to provide skilled workers, personnel development officers and operations managers employed in Mexico's automotive industry with efficient and effective advanced production management continuing training.

Current and former apprentices confirm that Lenze offers excellent training opportunities.

Parents of apprentices were able to get a picture of their offspring's working life.

Markus Rauberger has overcome 20,000 rivals to come out on top in his profession. The 23 year old is happy to have graduated from the dual training system.

Iris Gleicke, the Federal Government Commissioner for Small and Medium-sized Businesses and Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, presented federal prizes for outstanding innovative achievement in craft trades at the international craft trade fair in Munich.

Elke Büdenbender visited the Technology Centre run by the Chamber of Crafts and Trades in Lüneburg.

Despite Brexit, pupils from a vocational business school pulled together to help build a united "House of Europe" – and had fun at the same time.

The Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, and Minister-President of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, have signed a bilateral agreement in Luxembourg on cross-border cooperation in vocational education and training.