Hanover Region Training Initiative

In addition, the project strengthens career guidance for young people transitioning from school to work. It promotes collaboration among schools, companies, and other stakeholders in this field to enable young people to make a well-informed start in vocational training.

Services include active, ongoing, and individualized counseling and support for small and medium-sized enterprises on training issues through External Training Management (EXAM) in cooperation with the Hannover Region, as well as the promotion of the Azubi21 training platform.

An important part of the work involves maintaining, building, and supporting local training networks in the member municipalities through networking opportunities in the form of regular, at least annual events such as training breakfasts for professional exchange and to strengthen cooperation in local recruitment of young talent. Together with local stakeholders, appropriate matching formats are (further) developed and implemented, e.g., training fairs, speed dating events, career courses, and the like.

A newly added project goal is the systematic improvement of the transition from vocational school to an apprenticeship. With the introduction of the dual vocational school, an additional internship is intended to help students set the right career course early on. This requires new school-business collaboration formats, for which specific matching formats with pre- and post-support for companies are to be developed and implemented within the project.