Skilled worker shortage in the craft trades and liberal professions – challenges and perspectives for the vocational education and training of the future
Thinking Space 3
We will be using this Thinking Space to embark on a joint discussion of the future of dual VET in the craft trade sector and liberal professions with company-based experts. We will use a consideration of the skilled worker shortages actually arising in the craft trades as a starting point for exploring the nature of the upcoming challenges for economic sectors, individual branches and companies. We will also address the issues of how training vacancies can be filled in future and look at the competencies which will be needed to make dual vocational education and training robust and sustainable.
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Problems on the training and labour market are escalating in the face of demographic developments in Germany. A mounting demand for skilled workers, especially at the intermediate qualification level, is being accompanied by declining trainee numbers. At the same time, matching problems are increasing because supply and demand are frequently no longer aligned.
The construction industry in particular is already being confronted with clear challenges which will inevitably be aggravated by the need to comply with climate targets. Rising housing requirements, the necessity of restoring present stock, infrastructure interventions in the area of digital, energy and transport transformation and energy measures are all placing huge capacity demands on the sector. There is an additional burden in the form of the necessity of carrying out and activating energy refurbishments to existing buildings. These actions are enshrined in law but have not yet been instigated.
Programme overview
Part 1 (09:40 – 10:45)
9:40 Reception
- Prof. Dr. Robert Helmrich, BIBB
9:45 Impulse lecture on the classification of the topic
- Boris Petschulat, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
10:00 Predictable labour market development
- Dr. Tobias Maier, BIBB
10:15 Challenges from the employer's perspective
- Dr. Axel Fuhrmann, Chamber of Crafts Düsseldorf
10:30 Challenges from the employer's perspective
- Karsten Berlin, Industriegewerkschaft Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt
10:45 End of part 1
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Part 2 (10:55 – 11:55)
10:55 Review of part 1
- Prof. Dr. Robert Helmrich, BIBB
11:00 Competence requirements in the skilled crafts sector
- Daniel Schreiber, BIBB (AB 2.3)
11:10 Examples of problems and solutions from the sectors
- Michael Christmann, Stuck-Belz in Bonn.
- Bernd Zimmer, Chairman of Verband freier Berufe im Lande NRW (Association of Liberal Professions in the State of NRW), Vice President of the Medical Association Nordrhein
11:30 Talk round: 2 questions – 2 answers
- Karsten Berlin
- Dr. Axel Fuhrmann
- Boris Petschulat
- Daniel Schreiber
- Bernd Zimmer
Moderator: Stefan Udelhofen, BIBB
11:55 End