Promoting young talent

Sustainably securing the next generation of skilled workers - through less youth unemployment and better training.

In order to ensure the competitiveness and innovative capacity of small and medium-sized companies in particular, a sufficient number of well-trained and motivated junior staff is required.

Activities in the area of promoting young talent focus on the following key areas:

  • Strengthening dual training and improving the quality of training
  • Developing model projects for collaborative training and part-time training
  • Acquiring foreign trainees
  • Supporting targeted career guidance and study orientation, particularly in the STEM, healthcare, hotel and catering, ICT, skilled trades and logistics sectors
  • Stronger retention of graduates in the region
  • Strengthening dual courses of study and expanding permeability to university access
  • Preventing students from dropping out of training and studies
  • Attracting drop-outs to the dual training program
  • Intensifying cooperation between universities, schools and companies
  • Activities to increase the attractiveness and improve the image of companies

Success stories on the topics of changing career instead of dropping out and study and career orientation and vocational training and combating youth unemployment

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