Close contact and close co-operation between educational institutions and enterprises are important preconditions for ensuring that students acquire the qualifications in demand by the enterprises. This report offers advice on how to improve co-operation between the business sector and educational institutions. It describes how students' image and knowledge of enterprises can be improved by various activities. The 32 ideas on offer in this publication are widespread and cover activities such as opening the enterprise to students and their parents, offering students from all levels of the education system a period of practical training in the enterprise, offering teachers a period of practical in-company-training, co-financing researchers etc. The report is part of the ministerial programme "Education and Industry" which was launched in 1997. The aim of the programme is to improve competence development in the industry by increasing the co-operation between enterprises and educational i ...
read more ...Close contact and close co-operation between educational institutions and enterprises are important preconditions for ensuring that students acquire the qualifications in demand by the enterprises. This report offers advice on how to improve co-operation between the business sector and educational institutions. It describes how students' image and knowledge of enterprises can be improved by various activities. The 32 ideas on offer in this publication are widespread and cover activities such as opening the enterprise to students and their parents, offering students from all levels of the education system a period of practical training in the enterprise, offering teachers a period of practical in-company-training, co-financing researchers etc. The report is part of the ministerial programme "Education and Industry" which was launched in 1997. The aim of the programme is to improve competence development in the industry by increasing the co-operation between enterprises and educational institutions.
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