BIBB vocational education and training services available in Arabic

Arabic is one of the six official UN languages and is the mother tongue or a second language for many of the refugees who have come and are coming to Germany. Wide-ranging information on topics relating to training and careers is both helpful and necessary for such persons, even before they gain a knowledge of German. For this reason, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) is offering information in Arabic on vocational education and training in Germany. Alongside a general introduction to the German VET system, the BIBB website also provides information in Arabic on the recognition of professional and vocational qualifications acquired abroad or within the private educational sector.

BIBB President Friedrich Hubert Esser emphasises the significance of such a service. “Vocational education and training is the best route for the integration of young people into our society. In many countries, however, it does not have the same positive status that it enjoys in Germany. This means that, wherever possible, the imparting of essential information needs to take place at an early stage and in native languages. The international work conducted by BIBB enables it to acquire tried and tested practical information which is also of assistance when working with refugees.

The German Office for International Cooperation in VET (GOVET) at BIBB provides initial information in the form of a PowerPoint presentation on dual VET. This can be accessed via its website at www.govet.international/ppt and can be downloaded free of charge in Arabic, German, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

The information portal for the recognition of foreign professional and vocational qualifications at www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de is also available in an Arabic language version  (www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de/html/ar/index.php) as well as in German, English, Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. One new feature which has now been activated is an app for mobile end devices. This app is available for the Android, iOS and Windows Phone operating systems and includes information in German, English, Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto und Tigrinya (www.anerkennung-in-deutschland.de/app).

The international Internet portal of the iMOVE training export initiative (International Marketing of Vocational Education; www.imove-germany.de) continues to offer its main information in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish and German. Selected free publications produced by iMOVE are also available in Arabic.

Picture material is available at www.bibb.de/pressefotos.

Contact partners at BIBB:
GOVET: Thorsten Schlich; e-mail: schlich@govet.international
Recognition Portal: Sepehr Shahin Eilanjeghi; e-mail: shahin@bibb.de
iMOVE: Silvia Niediek; e-mail: niediek@imove-germany.de

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