EDUCATIONAL VOCATIONAL PREPARATION MEASURES (BVB)

The German employment agency’s “berufsvorbereitende Bildungsmaßnahmen” or BVB (educational vocational preparation measures) target young secondary school graduates without apprenticeships. The aim of these measures is to help these slow-learning and/or disadvantaged young adults become integrated in the working world and become more stable.

For this purpose, the following measures are taken in close cooperation with instructors, social education workers, and teachers:

• vocational orientation
• basic technical knowledge
• vocational partial qualifications
• practical experience through internships in companies
• comprehensive job application training
• language training (when necessary)

An important point within the framework of preparation for working life is the youths’ school qualification. As a general rule, they attend vocational school. In individual cases it is also possible to acquire the general secondary school degree.

 - support with choosing an occupation

- testing abilities and skills

- continued integration in the apprenticeship and labour market