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Peer review in Berlin on 'The dual training system: Integration of young people into the labour market'

10/10/2012

The Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs in Germany hosted a peer review on 'The dual training system: Integration of young people into the labour market' on 24-25 September.

The host country presented its dual training system as well as two measures specifically designed to support the integration of disadvantaged young people into dual training and the labour market.

The dual training system in Germany has a long tradition, providing recognised highly valued qualifications through a system of training which combines workplace experience and practice with vocational college based education. The dual training system is widely considered to be one of the backbones of Germany’s economic success and its ability to maintain low levels of youth unemployment, even during the economic crisis. However, it was recognised that not all young people are equipped to enter and successfully complete dual training without support, because of poor performance in school, which is often coupled with other factors such as social disadvantage or migrant status among others.

In order to support these young people, two measures developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs were presented at the peer review:

• Berufseinstiegsbegleiting (intensified vocational guidance and support): allows public employment services (PES) to support poorly performing students from the penultimate year of schooling at lower secondary level until two years after general schooling or up to six months after entering apprenticeship training. The core aims of the instrument are to support these students to obtain at least a basic school leaving qualification, to obtain vocational orientation to develop an appropriate vocational choice, to develop a successful apprenticeship search strategy and to stabilise them for the first six months into their apprenticeship.
• Einstiegsqualifizierung (pre-apprenticeship training): provides six to twelve months in company pre-apprenticeship training to qualify young people for entry into apprenticeship into the dual system. The measure is aimed at young people which were unable to obtain an apprenticeship contract in the dual systems (even with the help of the PES); young people who do not fulfil the requirements for apprenticeship training and socially disadvantaged applicants.

A summary from the peer review, the host country and peer country papers have been published on the Mutual Learning Programme website.

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