Use of Apprenticeship in the Vocational Integration of Socially Disadvantaged Youth

From both a social and an economic perspective, however, their vocational integration is of the utmost importance in the context of demographic change. In-company learning can be a valuable starting point here, especially in view of the problems at the school as a learning venue. The aim of the project is to develop instruments and methods of in-company training for the vocational integration of disadvantaged young people. A comparative, incremental approach is chosen that develops recommendations for the further development of pre-vocational measures from the existing programmes in Lithuania, Italy, Spain and Germany. The approaches and methods are developed jointly with the actors (e.g. social pedagogues, vocational school teachers, trainers) and made available to them for further use. In this way, the quality of counselling and educational processes as well as the attractiveness of learning in the process of work can be further developed in the short term. In the longer term, the approaches can serve to increase the quality and effectiveness of measures in the transition system and thus the employability of the target group.