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● Often, one company is the primary provider of in-house vocational training
and the second company only takes charge of the learning content that
the first is unable to provide. For example, a restaurant is able to instruct a
trainee cook in everything except the subject “large-scale events”. The
trainee therefore switches to a hotel restaurant for training in this area. In
this case, the restaurant signs a training contract with the trainee and
appends a written agreement with the hotel to it.

● Good experience has been gathered with collaborative training models in
which several firms work together with an education provider. The
education provider coordinates the vocational training and can also sign
the training contract itself. The trainee then spends a stipulated amount of
time in the firm, at the part-time vocational school and, for certain
segments of his training, at the education provider as well.

● Another option is a training association which appoints a lead enterprise
for the training. Frequently, the association is also the training employer,
signs the training contracts and teaches training content. The lead
enterprise takes on the trainees for several companies for a stipulated
period of time.

Key Learnings

Thus, a variety of possibilities exist for sharing out vocational training. Generally
speaking, all of the participating companies record in a contract which
companies are responsible for the individual parts of the training.

It is a very good opportunity, especially for SMEs with limited resources, to take
part in the in-company training. At the same time, we have additional training
opportunities for young people in the region.

The competent bodies – in other words, the Chambers of Industry and
Commerce and Chambers of Skilled Crafts – help mediate collaborative training
ventures of this type.