Germany
Foreign self-employers
offer vocational training |
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Target
group of the project are foreign enterprises in Hamburg
on the one hand and young people, who are searching for
a vocational training place, on the other hand.
The big potential of foreign enterprises in Hamburg shall
be motivated to create more vocational training places
for young people with immigration background and young
Germans.
The project wants to reduce information deficits about
the German dual system of vocational training with the
advice of foreign enterprises.
The
project has to be seen in the context of the other activities
of the leading institution: The ATU (= "Working group
of Turkish employers and business-start-ups") is
a syndicate of enterprises and self-employed of the "ethnic
economy". The syndicate was founded, because established
German institutions have a limited consciousness about
the interests of foreign enterprises regarding advices
and information.
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Description
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Young
people with immigration background are even more affected
by problems in the transition from the education system
to the employment system than Germans.
There can be observed tendencies of a process of "ethnical
homogeneity" in daily life situations in city quarters
with high rates of immigrants (e.g. in the family and
in school). Information deficits, cultural differences
in the awareness of professional rules and a lack of orientation
about the need of qualification limits many times the
possibilities of young people with immigration background
in the access to the employment system (here: vocational
training). Symptoms of these specific disadvantages are
among others a lack of awareness about the importance
of a qualified training and few knowledge about internal
company cultures.
These problems get even worse due to deficits of information
concerning the dual system of the vocational training.
These deficits of information exist as well in many enterprises
with foreign owners.
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Description
of the solution: |
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The
achievement of the project can be described on three levels:
The first level is the acquisition and mobilisation
of foreign enterprises, which want to offer vocational training.
Therefore it is necessary to investigate the possibilities,
to visit enterprises and to advice them about the formalities
concerning vocational training.
The second level starts with the readiness of foreign
enterprise to offer vocational training: The leading institution
supports the enterprises to get a licence for the vocational
training, and it supports the Employment Office to offer
training places.
The third level includes the support to find "the
right" trainee for the vocational training place. Young
applicants and their parents get information about the possibilities
within the dual system of vocational training. Moreover,
the project is still open for the trainees and as well for
the enterprises after the start of a vocational training
(e.g. if there are any conflicts within the training, with
the trainee or the enterprise).
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The results have been really positive, and make of this
programme a good practice: 129 young people got a vocational
training place in a foreign enterprise. Among these 129,
61 with Turkish nationality, 62 with German nationality
and 6 from Iran, Afghanistan, Philippines, Portugal, Greece
and Macedonia.
66
of them were male and 63 female trainees.
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of the 129 trainees had no education certificate, 63 had
a certificate of the lower secondary school, 45 had a certificate
of the intermediate secondary school, 11 had a certificate
of higher education.
This
project began on April 1999 and has a duration foreseen
until December 2003.
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Practical
considerations : |
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The agents implied in the project are the Employment Office
of Hamburg and the Chamber of Commerce of Hamburg.
The
financing institutions are the above mentioned plus the
European Social Fund, the Ministry of Employment and the
Commerzkollegium zu Altona.
The
staff needed to manage the project are 3 people in charge
of the administration, the acquisition and the advice.
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IF
YOU WISH ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT TO:
ATU
(Arbeitsgemeinschaft T¸rkischer Unternehmer und Existenzgr¸nder
e.V.).
Mehmet Keskin
Nordkanalstrae
58.
D-20097 Hamburg
Fon.
++ 40/ 23 68 71 92
Fax: ++ 40/ 23 68 71 93
atu.ev@t-online.de
www.atu-ev.de
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