Since the last crisis, we’ve seen that young people’s access to the labor world was much safer in countries with a “dual” vocational training system: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands or Switzerland are weighed down under requests for advice from European and non-European countries. To face this inflow better, the German government has redefined its strategy on the subject. Thus, in early February, it presented the German Office for International Cooperation and Vocational Education and Training (GOVET), a new service answering to the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB). It follows the principle of ‘single office,’ being at the same time the primary interlocutor for the foreign “clients” and a coordination unit for all German stakeholders in the sector. After focusing on German businesses’ training needs abroad, it now seems that the spreading of the dual system mostly comes from the States.
New government strategy on the international stage. “The Federal vocational training institute has been getting experience for several decades in terms of international cooperation. We are now using this expertise with the GOVET, in order to provide an answer to the growing appeal for the dual training system and therefore justify the good name of what comes from Germany,” explained in February Friedrich Hubert Esser, chairman of the BIBB, when officially launching GOVET. The setting up of this new service directly comes from the new “Strategy for International VET Cooperation” decided by the federal government in early July.
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