Future workshop, Munich
The aim of the project is to prevent young people from dropping out of training and thus reduce the number of young people without a vocational qualification. It is a further development of the Tanzen verbindet project in Munich, which was previously financed by help alliance.
Project Background
People without a school-leaving qualification often end up in precarious employment – and lack skilled workers. Young people of foreign nationality are particularly at risk.
Every year, almost 50,000 young people in Germany leave school without a school-leaving certificate. At 15.7 %, people with foreign citizenship are affected almost three times as often as Germans of the same age (5.1 %). At 37.3%, the number of young refugees who drop out of education prematurely is even higher than that of young people of German origin (24.9%).
A total of 2.64 million young people between the ages of 20 and 35 currently have no vocational training. After a steady increase over the last ten years, the proportion rose again significantly from 15.5% to 17.8% in 2022 alone, reaching a new record level.
51% of companies in Germany are unable to fill vacancies due to a lack of staff. The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce puts the number of vacancies at 1.7 to 1.8 million.
Target group
Young people – mainly refugees and migrants – are supported by a school-based program until they graduate from school and continue to be supported until the end of their training.
