Getting started with vocational training

Recently, 12 of 14 newly accepted scholarship students of the sponsorship programme Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung (Vocational Training Programme for the Highly Talented) were welcomed at the education centre of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce South Thuringia (IHK).

For the next three years, the new scholarship students will have 6,000 Euro available for their further vocational education and training. The scholarship funds are provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The aim of the continuing education scholarship is to support particularly talented and motivated career entrants in obtaining further qualifications within their occupational field. In addition to continuing education courses for career advancement, extra-occupational study courses and training courses, these include also multidisciplinary seminars and language courses abroad.

The continuing education scholarship is an important contribution in the efforts to strengthen the innovation power of the economy by way of particularly committed and knowledge-hungry young professionals. The 2013 balance of the Stiftung Begabtenförderung berufliche Bildung (SBB - Foundation Vocational Training Programme for the Highly Talented), headquartered in Bonn, is positive. More than 6,300 scholarship students were newly accepted into the sponsorship programme by 284 participating and responsible authorities and chambers. Thus, well over one per cent of apprenticeship graduates benefitted from a continuing education scholarship.

The next entrance date for one of these coveted scholarships is 1 March 2015. Interested apprentices, who have graduated in the IHK district South Thuringia, should definitely put the application deadline of 30 November 2014 into their diaries.