Counselling and qualification project Life and Work - LeA. Project actors : Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Berlin

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1 Counselling and qualification project Life and Work - LeA Project actors : Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Berlin Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Stuttgart bfw- Berufsfortbildungswerk, gemeinnützige Bildungseinrichtung des DGB, Hamburg Funding: The project was supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research Initiative for the early recognition of qualification needs from November 2002 until October Online: 1

2 Workforce-Participation in further training 2

3 Counselling and qualification project Life and Work - LeA Goal: Target groups: - to develop an employee-oriented, high-quality and concrete guidance service under the title Training Coaching - additional qualification for works and staff councils - employees with simple and mid-level qualifications in small and medium size enterprises Regional focus: -City of Hamburg - South Germany Branches: - metal and electrical branch - maintains and health services 3

4 Empirical basis of the LeA Project Case Studies Training Coaching tests in enterprises Further Training Training Coach Participants Training coaching experience Metal & electrical branch maintains & health services (18 P) (16 P) 4

5 Main Results of the LeA Project The main goal for the new concept Training Coaching was to improve the capacity of employees to plan and create their own employment advancements and strengthening employees personal competencies. We can say now, the concept works. Training Coaching is an successful instrument to motivate employees with low and mid-level qualifications and to bring them into the process of lifelong learning. To create an successful in-company training coaching process it is necessary to involve not just the employer and the employees but also the works council and the chairmen. From this point of view training coaching is also an instrument for organizational development. The training coaching experience after the funding period shows, career guidance concepts like training coaching are hardly marketable. They do not work without public funding. SME do not have the financial capacity. And companies usually do not offer career guidance to employees with low and mid-level qualifications. 5

6 New Project: Guidance Offensive in the Skilled Crafts Sector - Developing an Educational Guidance System Project actors: Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training in the German Crafts Sector at the University of Cologne (FBH) Cooperation partner: German Confederation of Skilled Crafts (ZDH) Chamber of Trades: Cottbus Düsseldorf Frankfurt/Main The project is supported by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research 6

7 Guidance Offensive in the Skilled Crafts Sector The Goal of the Project is: to formulate and trial an in-service further training concept based on modules for educational counsellors. Project work will focus on the following tasks: Identifying qualification needs, analysing existing cooperation Developing target group-specific qualification concepts Developing flexible further training modules Elaborating checklists for implementing the qualification concepts Testing the qualification concepts in a pilot located in chambers of trade in Cottbus, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main 7

8 Guidance Offensive in the Skilled Crafts Sector Target groups of the qualification concepts: Chambers of trade counsellors active in training and further training Apprentice instructors in guilds Counsellors in vocational education institutions Counsellors in further training Counsellors from the Federal Labour Agency Counsellor teachers in schools Online: 8