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With the recently concluded vocational training pact between the Lake Constance district, the schools, the Bodenseekreis district crafts association, the Ulm Chamber of Crafts, the IHK Bodensee-Oberschwaben and the Konstanz-Ravensburg employment agency, there is now one in all six districts of the Chamber of Crafts and the Ulm city district Cooperation. This is intended to emphasize the importance of vocational training between Ostalb and Lake Constance and also to sustainably ensure the quality of vocational training.
A key point is career orientation in schools and promotion of dual training. The aim is to further promote the equivalence of vocational and academic education. “Together with politicians, we want to ensure that training and studies are treated equally not only on paper, but also in practice. This requires close cooperation between schools, our craft businesses, employment agencies and politics. With the vocational training pacts, these are now available throughout the chamber area – an important step in times of increasing demand for skilled workers,” says Dr. Tobias Mehlich, General Manager of the Ulm Chamber of Crafts.
The pact that has now been signed focuses on the attractiveness of dual training and includes concrete measures. It is important to strengthen dual training and further vocational training and to make career orientation sustainable, for example by increasing the involvement of parents. The aim is also to expand cooperation in vocational training, i.e. to promote exchange between vocational schools, companies, other signatory partners as well as the Chamber of Crafts and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Mehlich continues: “A large part of our professions have already changed significantly as a result of digitalization. The demand for skilled workers with digital knowledge will continue to increase in many professions in the future, which is why it is essential to come into contact with this as early as possible.” But not only training but also further training courses are part of the pact for vocational training. In this way, the projects of the individual cooperation partners are more closely coordinated and further expanded.
In the area of the Ulm Chamber of Crafts, more than 20,000 craft businesses with more than 120,000 employees supply the local people. Last year, sales of around 17 billion euros were generated. There is a great willingness to train: skilled workers are needed and many companies want to provide training. At the start of the training year, more than 2,700 young people between Ostalb and Lake Constance began skilled trades training, and around 500 apprenticeship positions are currently still available.
