Vocational education and training in Austria

Everything you want to know about the apprenticeship training including trainers in Austria you find here (available in German as well as in English).

Concerning our surey, I made a contribution to a ibw – owned media. This media reaches a various number of Austrian stakeholders, interested person as well as newspapers. The Austrian daily newspaper “Die Presse” cited my text speaking about the survey and reported about several outcomes of the survey. Attached you will find the copy of the article. die-presse_trainers.pdf

The whole article in the ibw-owned media you can find in http://mitteilungen.ibw.at/

I want to give you some information about possibilities to obtain a certifaction as trainer in VET in Austria. Both so called “academies” are not obligatory and both are not connected to universities or universities for applied sciences.

 Trainer in VET in adult education: www.wba.or.at

In-company-trainer in the apprenticeship training:

Ausbilderakademie Kärnten www.wifikaernten.at

Ausbilderakademie Oberösterreich http://www.ooe.wifi.at/ftp/AusAk_Flyer.pdf

Steirische Lehrlingsakademie (Weiterbildung für AusbilderInnen und Lehrlinge) http://www.steirische-lehrlingsakademie.at/

Ausbilderakademie Wien http://www.wkw.at/docextern/abtbipol/AusbilderAkademie.pdf

Vorarlberger Akademie Lehrlingsausbildung http://lehrlingsausbildung.wkv.at/

Ausbilderforum Tirol http://content.tibs.at/amg/index.php?getPage=div/af_allgemein.html&menu=1443

Since fall 2008 the Austrian government grants companies that make available CVET for their trainers in the apprenticeship-training financial support. That means that all programms attended by the trainers are paid up to an amount to EUR 1.000,-. More information you will find on www.lehre-foerdern.at.

Austrian training enterprises are invited to take part in the competition for the Austrian State Award “Fit for Future”. The prize will be awarded by the Federal Ministry of Economics, Youth and Family and is remunerated with EUR 1.000,-.

Within this tender the enterprises present their apprenticeship-training according to the quality, innovation and sustainablitity. The awarding is very much influenced by the situation, the continuing vocational education and other activities of the trainers in the different companies. Hence, this award also hounours the work of in-company trainers in the apprenticeship-training. All Austrian enterprises that are educating apprentices are invited to take part. More information you will find on www.ibw.at/fitforfuture.

A comprehensive description of the system, organisation, education … of the training of VET teachers and trainers in Austria you find at http://www.abf-austria.at/docs/abf%20InfoDoc%204-2004.pdf.

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In this post I want to intodruce you an Austrian specific: „Fit for Future“ is an Austrian national award that decorates Austrian enterprises with the best apprenticeship training. The award was founded in 2000 since this year it is a national award. The prize is given to enterprises with the best concept of apprenticeship training. This means the professional as well as the personality training of the young people and if there are additional offers for the apprentices, i. e. drug prevention or trainings in driving safety. “Fit for Future” also comprises a special prize for apprenticeship trainings for people with special needs. More information: http://www.ibw.at/fitforfuture/

Apprenticeship training in Austria is a part of the VET-programm.  Apprenticeship training is provided both at the training enterprise (practical training, which makes up some 80% of the training period) and parttime vocational school. It is the task of these vocational schools to expand the trainees’ general education and complement the specialist knowledge and skills they are taught in the training enterprises. Depending on the apprenticeship, training lasts between two and four years, mostly three years. At the end of the training, every apprentice can take an apprenticeship-leave examination. Young people with special education needs, disabilities or reduced mobility have the possibility to attend an integrative VET programme. Due to an extension of the apprenticeship period by one to a maximum of two years or attendance of programmes on partial qualifications agreed on between the trainee and the enterprise it is possible to meet the special needs of young people.

Dear community-members! If you want to be informed about the Austrian VET-system the ibw has a BRANDNEW (2008) short-description of the Austrian Education System online. There you will also find an overview about the Austrian VET-System. And as we know that German is a difficult language, we have translate this short-description in some other languages:

German: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_de08.pdf

Englisch: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_en08.pdf

French: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_fr08.pdf

Greek: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/greek06.pdf

Italian: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_it08.pdf

Croatian: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_it08.pdf

Lithuanian: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/lithuanian06.pdf

Serbian: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_yu08.pdf

Russian: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/bbs_ru08.pdf

Mandarin: http://www.ibw.at/html/bildungssystem/mandarin06.pdf

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