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Initial situation
Europe’s need for skilled workers is growing—as are the challenges for vocational education and training programs oriented towards the future. Securing skilled workers in the sector of new technologies in particular has become a structural challenge to economic growth in all European Union countries.
What is true of Europe as a whole is true of Berlin and Brandenburg: ensuring and increasing the employability and skills development of employees at local high technology companies is a driving force behind the growth of industrial development in the capital area.
With the innovative approach to forward-looking professional development for skilled workers in new technology sectors developed within the pilot project “New technologies learning factory Berlin,” the city of Berlin is rising to this challenge. The two-year project, launched on 1 July 2010 is managed by the cooperation partners bbw Bildungszentrum Frankfurt (Oder) GmbH, RKW Deutschland, and WISTA Management GmbH. The project is supported by the vocational qualification unit of the Berlin Senate Department of Integration, Labour and Social Issues and the European Social Fund.
New technologies learning factory Berlin
The goal of the project “New technologies learning factory Berlin” is the development and testing of a new vocational education and training structure geared towards the demands of a future-oriented technological sector.
Berlin and Brandenburg are already unable to meet the demand for skilled workers in high technologies, and the prognosis is even worse for the future: Traditional occupational images fail to take foreseeable developments in the sector of high technology into account, thus failing to secure qualified workers for the future.
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