Working groups of the Skilled Workers Alliance Hannover

Family and Career Working Group

© Hanover Region

The field of action "Family and Career" focuses on improving the framework conditions that can be decisive for increasing the labor force participation and employment rate of skilled workers. The main topics are:

• Stronger family orientation in workplace and working time design
• Strengthening equal participation of women in the labor market
• Opportunities offered by digitalization and transformation of the world of work to increase labor force participation
• Skilled worker initiatives for social professions (including care/household-related services)
• Women in skilled trades
• Interlink and further develop advisory concepts as a network for people returning to work 

Working Group on Continuing Education

Changes in the world of work require increased continuing education and training. In line with the national continuing education strategy, the Skilled Workers Alliance of the Hannover Region sees itself as a continuing education network (e.g., the regioLab+ project) and future continuing education agency.

In order to optimize cooperation between the partners in advising companies and their employees, transparency regarding consulting and support services is to be improved, (joint) continuing education programs are to be initiated and further developed, and the services offered by the cooperation partners are to be integrated.

Joint qualification portal of the Hanover Skilled Workers Alliance: www.arbeitsagentur.de/vor-ort/hannover/qualifizierung

Skilled Worker Immigration Working Group

The aim of the working group is to improve services in the area of skilled worker immigration and to strengthen the Hannover region as an attractive place of employment for international skilled workers. The focus is on knowledge transfer between regional labor market actors and the development of case-specific solutions to challenges faced by international skilled workers and employers.

Working Group on Universities and the Region

Cooperation between companies and universities is an essential factor in retaining highly qualified skilled workers.

The aim is to supplement and further develop existing measures between universities, public administration, educational institutions, and industry, in particular to improve interfaces between the parties involved (such as the Science Initiative, the University/Trade Union Coordination Office, and the Lower Saxony Open University Service Center) and to ensure permeability between vocational and academic education in both directions.

Activities to improve the transition from school to work are implemented within the framework of the Regional Education Advisory Board . There is no separate working group in the Hanover Skilled Workers Alliance.