Skilled labour
Highly skilled workers secure the success of tomorrow. Right now, however, there are over 100,000 unfilled positions in Germany's engineering sector, which is so crucial to the success of our economy. This gap is likely to grow even larger in the coming years.
For this reason, we want to spark greater enthusiasm for careers in engineering and the natural sciences. This means that technical and scientific courses have to play a greater role in school and university curricula. Given the shortage of skilled workers, these fields offer outstanding job and career prospects.
We want to inspire school students to take courses of study in the natural and engineering sciences. Young people can already experiment with technology in the labs of research facilities associated with the Economics Ministry (for example, in the German Aerospace Centre's "school labs").
We support school and university reforms that aim to achieve greater efficiency and competition.
At higher education institutions and non-university research establishments, we are taking steps to foster a stronger entrepreneurial climate so that more students will be attracted to the idea of launching their own innovative businesses.
We are taking steps to encourage more young women to pursue careers in the natural and technical sciences.
We support the private sector's efforts to provide their staff with advanced training opportunities and to better harness the potential of older employees.
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