days of information for vocational choices

E-COP – Project no. 167127-LLP-1-2009-1-IT-KA1-KA1ECETB

“Berufswahltage im Landkreis Cham” Days of Information for

Vocational Choices

“Aktionskreis Lebens- u. Wirtschaftsraum Cham” District Office Cham

Example of Practice:


• The main focus of the project lies on helping students into their professional lives during the process of vocational orientation.

• Common jobs are aimed to be promoted, to interest students for a number of vocational fields and to help future university students making an appropriate choice for their subjects.

• If there are schools who ask for help with single projects where they need financial, organizational or staff support they can ask and they are lent a hand.

• Press and public relation are major tasks of the project partnership, and they try to stay as up-to-date as possible to provide the most accurate information.

• In-firm trainers act as councellors. In autumn and winter students go into the enterprises in the district of Cham to get informed about miscellaneous vocational trainings.

• “It’s just organizing and kicking off – the rest happens more or less by itself.”

Aims


First the project was

supported by the former

Chief Executive in the

District of Cham and the

district office. Together with

the VHS Cham and other

coopera-tion partners it

could be started.

It addresses all students

between 15 and18, the year

before their last school year

in any school of the district

of Cham, without exception.

The project is financially

supported by the “Aktions-

kreis Lebens-und Wirt-

schaftsraum Cham.

The project idea came up in

1993 and it started in 1994.

For several years there was a

very successful campaign to

help students with their

decisions concerning thier

vocational careers. It was also

meant to support

disadvantaged youths in

finding apprenticeship places.

Fairs and special information

days and a lot more have

been successfully

implemented.

By means of press relea-

ses and PR enterprises

are addressed directly.

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The Idea…


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Target Groups:

• In the first period it was just aimed at ‘Hauptschüler‘ and ‘Realschüler’, e.g. students at different levels of German secondary schools.

• In the meantime it has developed and covers all types of education now. There is cooperation with secondary schools up to Gymnasiums (academic high schools) and universities to address any kind of students..

• This year a Kindergarten project was implemented with the topic “Water” to raise childen’s awareness for environmental issues.

• In a way children, students, young adults and adults who want to start a vocational career or university studies are addressed, so the idea of “livelong learning” is a basic topic.


Network Partnership

Aktionskreis Lebens- und

Wirtschaftsraum Cham

(Project Manager)

Chamber of Craft

Schools, Universitie

s, Education Centers

Chamber o

f

Industr

y and

Comm

erce

Employment Agency

Municipal

Administrations


Examples

In the Koetzting ‘Gymnasium’ a so-called ‘technical year’ has been launched.

They cooperate with partners at the research center for aeronautics and space in Oberpfaffenhofen who have installed a laboratory for students.

This special examole had been chosen by the UNESCO to become the official edu-cational project of the years 2007 and 2008.They were

conferred a distinction for it.

Once a year there is a girls’ day

where e.g. this year young women

had the opportunity to choose

between 12 different companies

where they could go to get some

vocational information.

Then there are competitions like business games, a stockbroker game, one called “enterprises in schools” where young people can found their own companies and must act the way they would in real business, the best of them gets an award.

There are special information days for

the retailing sector, for manufacturers

etc.

Meeting days have been organized

in vocational schools (for example

in the field of construction in

cooperation with the vocational

school Furth im Wald).


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Locations

SchoolsTrade Fairs Companies

Agencies

Research

Centers

Factories

Universities


Funding andOrganization

The project gets financial support by the „Aktionskreis Lebens- und Wirtschaftsraum Cham“ (the managing organization) only . Not much is needed, as with the cooperation of schools etc. the ways the events are being proceeded mostly depend on the voluntary work of trainers and teachers in the different schools or vocational trainers in enterprises who provide the information and who also come up with new ideas. And that is usually for free.

The „Aktionskreis … is basically a communication platform for 280 people from the fields economy, administration, poritics and society. It is the common workshop for the future of all citizens in the district of Cham. Everyone can participate…“

The district of Cham has to be positioned clearly and distinctly as being a future-oriented industrial location within the European Union. The growth of this region must be pushed internally by its own strenghts. It is aimed to keep traditional ideas, our modern world, economic growth and nature in balance. (http://www.aktionskreis-cham.de/)