The aim of this sub-project was to inspire young, foreign people to start vocational training in a skilled trade. Young immigrants, with the capacity to train, were informed about the opportunities that skilled craft offers, for self employment and establishing an independent livelihood. In addition, the project developed measures to reduce the high drop-out rate.

Management: ZWH – Central Office for Further Training in the Skilled Trades, Düsseldorf

A telelearning course improved immigrants’ skills in German technical language. Lacking language competences are often the reason why immigrants fail exams and work below their capabilities. The German course was developed as a web based training (WBT), accompanied by a technical language tutor, and provided for apprentices, masters, enterprises etc.

Management: Chamber of Small Business and Skilled Crafts, Aachen

The task of the project was to acquaint immigrants with the master craftsman’s certificate examination and to prepare them for the setting up a business in skilled trades. Focus was the construction of networks between autonomous migrant organisations (MSO), further training organisations of the chamber of small business and skilled crafts and guilds. The sub-project was expanded with Networking Berlin.

Management: BTZ – Training and Technology centre of the Chamber of Small Business and Skilled Crafts, Berlin

The project was dedicated to the entry-level training and further qualification of women with an immigration background in skilled crafts. It was mainly aimed at assisting wives in craft enterprises. The project compiled the specific need for qualifications for immigrants, through the inclusion of the target group, as well as the direct addressing of skilled craft enterprises. Establishing contacts between German and foreign businesswomen in skilled crafts was also facilitated.

Management: Chamber of Small Business and Skilled Crafts, Lüneburg-Stade

The sub-project developed a tailor-made unitized qualification model for the additional- and post-qualification to enhance the integration of older, disadvantaged immigrants into the labour market. A cooperation of educational institutions with SME and the identification of the current needs of the economy ensured a high practical relevance of the qualification modules.

Management: Chamber of Small Business and Skilled Crafts, Rhein-Main, BTZ – Training and Technology centre, Weiterstadt

Teachers and training personnel of educational institutions learned to adapt to integration tasks as well as to recognise the intercultural significance of learning/education situations to counteract possible xenophobic attitudes in training centres. The sub-project therefore developed a modular series of seminars for trainings of multipliers. In addition, a base of consultation was set up in Weimar, serving as a drop-in centre nationwide for continuing vocational education in the area „integration in skilled crafts“.

Management: Training and Continuing Education Centre of the Building and Construction Industry, Erfurt/Weimar