Vienna’s Vocational Training Guarantee -

A Co-operative Strategy

waff – Vienna Employment Promotion Fund

is a public fund of the City of Vienna, backed by the City of

Vienna, interest groups representatives of employees and

employers, Public Employment Service

was founded in 1995 in order to implement communal labor

market policy

is subsidized by the City of Vienna (annual endowments)

is partner (and coordinator) of the Territorial Employment

Pact of Vienna and cooperates with actors of labour-market-,

economic-, social- and education-policy

2014: has a budget of € 53,8 Mio. Shared between 25.500 clients

(women share: clients 59%, budget 45%)

waff – Vienna Employment Promotion Fund

The waff is a fund with 3 bodies

presidency

board of trustees

consisting of representatives of the political parties of the

Vienna City Council, Social Partners, the Public Employment

Service - Vienna (AMS) and the Vienna City Council

executive board

consisting of representatives of the Austrian Trade Unions, the

Vienna City Council, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the

Economic Chamber of Vienna, the Federation of Industry

Vienna and the Public Employment Service Vienna (PES or

AMS)

Some figures about Vienna

•Area: 415 km²

•23 districts

•Urban population: 1,74 Mil. inhabitants

•Foreign citizens: 23,0%

•Population growth 2003-2013: +9,3%

•(Austria: +4,3%)

•2013:

•Employed persons: ~ 791.000

~ 1/4 of Austrian employment

•Unemployment rate: 10,2%

90.000 unemployed persons

•(A: ~ 3.483.000 / 7,6%/287.000)

The transition from school to labour

market / Vocational Training

Ministry for Labor, Social Affairs

and Consumer Protection (BMASK)

Public Employment Service (PES or AMS)

• information

• counseling and support for

further education and employment

• job placement

• unemployment benefit

9 provincial offices

~ 100 regional offices

Labor market policy is a task on national level

waff: public fund in order to implement communal labor market policy of the City of Vienna

GENERAL CONDITIONS Educational System

Point of Departure I P

upils

of

the

9th

school year

General or vocational secondary school

apprenticeship

company

Supra company appr. Training

Job/unskilled work

projects of „advance“

NEETs

91,2% youths after

compulsory school

have a successful

transition 1

10,9% of 18 – 24 y.

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9th

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ar

(20

10

/20

11

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8,8% (ca. 1.460) youths

do not attend any

education after

compulsory school 1

Unemployment Rate Youths

(International ) Unemployment rate < 25 years 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

EU (28 countries) 15,8 20,1 21,1 21,5 23,0 23,5

EU (27 countries) 15,8 20,1 21,1 21,4 22,9 23,4

Euro area (17 countries) 16,0 20,3 20,9 20,8 23,1 24,0

Belgium 18,0 21,9 22,4 18,7 19,8 23,1

Bulgaria 11,9 15,1 21,8 25,0 28,1 28,6

Czech Republic 9,9 16,6 18,3 18,1 19,5 18,9

Denmark 8,1 11,8 13,9 14,3 14,0 12,9

Germany 10,6 11,2 9,9 8,6 8,1 7,9

Estonia 12,1 27,5 32,9 22,3 20,9 :

Ireland 13,3 24,0 27,6 29,1 30,4 26,6

Greece 22,1 25,8 32,9 44,4 55,3 :

Spain 24,6 37,8 41,6 46,4 53,2 55,7

France 19,3 24,0 23,7 22,9 24,7 25,5

Croatia 21,9 25,1 32,6 36,1 43,0 49,9

Italy 21,3 25,4 27,8 29,1 35,3 :

Cyprus 9,0 13,8 16,6 22,4 27,8 38,7

Latvia 13,6 33,3 36,2 31,0 28,5 :

Lithuania 13,3 29,6 35,7 32,6 26,7 22,3

Luxembourg 17,3 16,5 15,8 16,4 18,0 19,9

Hungary 19,9 26,5 26,6 26,1 28,1 :

Malta 12,2 14,4 13,1 13,8 14,2 13,9

Netherlands 6,3 7,7 8,7 7,6 9,5 11,0

Austria 8,0 10,0 8,8 8,3 8,7 :

Poland 17,2 20,6 23,7 25,8 26,5 27,4

Portugal 20,2 (e) 24,8 (e) 27,7 (e) 30,1 37,7 38,1

Romania 18,6 20,8 22,1 23,7 22,7 23,6

Slovenia 10,4 13,6 14,7 15,7 20,6 22,7

Slovakia 19,3 27,6 33,9 33,7 34,0 33,6

Finland 16,5 21,5 21,4 20,1 19,0 19,9

Sweden 20,2 25,0 24,8 22,8 23,7 23,4

United Kingdom 15,0 19,1 19,6 21,1 21,0 :

Iceland 8,2 16,0 16,2 14,6 13,6 10,7

:=not available p=provisional d=definition differs, see metadata e=estimated b=break in time series

(national) unemployment rate youths (-24years)

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Vienna 4,5 5,2 5,1 5,4 5,5 5,7

Vienna 9.033 10.455 10.367 11.181 11.480 11.972

Austria 3,3 4,2 3,9 3,8 3,9 4,2

Austria 34.069 42.908 40.084 38.847 40.296 42.744

Many Actors – Many Offers for Youth

Vienna’s Vocational Training Guarantee

– A Co-operative Strategy

“We let nobody down. We care for each youth”

Renate Brauner, Vice-Mayor of Vienna, 2010

All youths willing to take an education will receive a training, qualification,

supportive counselling or coaching offer, if they do not know how to proceed.

Public Employment Service Vienna (AMS) (national inst.)

Federal Office of Social Affairs Office Vienna (BSB) (nat. inst.)

Vienna school board

Wiener ArbeitnehmerInnen Förderungsfonds – waff

Vienna Employment Promotion Fund

Municipal department 13 – Education, Out-of-School Activities for Young

People

Municipal department 40 – social welfare

Social Partner s (representatives of employees and employers)

Supported by coordination unit “Viennese education guarantee”

GENERAL CONDITIONS

Vocational Training Guarantee –

A Co-operative Strategy of the City

The Vocational Training Guarantee includes all kinds of measures to enable

youngsters to take a training or education beyond the compulsory secondary school

education. Its target group are youngsters from 14/15 to 21 years who have finished 9

years of compulsory education.

The steering commitee works with

analysis

research

implementation

evaluation

and management of interfaces between the different actors

It is a top-down and bottom-up process (NGOs are important partners to improve the

strategy).

GENERAL CONDITIONS

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Objectives: accompany transitions avoid dropouts and guarantee diplomas

Transition Management

Accompany during the

transition from lower

secondary school to

vocational training

Youth Assistance, etc.

Recover lower

secondary school

graduation

Preparation and

(re-)introduction into the

labour market

spacelab, etc.

Avoid dropouts

and guarantee

diplomas

Youth

Assistance

Assistance for

apprentices

Counselling

centres,

helplines

Scholar

assistance

Projects to advance and education

14

Point of departure:

8,8% of all pupils of 1 year (cohorte) do not transit to a further school or apprenticeship

training. Additionally there are school- and apprenticeship drop outs as well as youths

moving to Vienna and acquiring or fulfilling their basic education.

The successful transition into a first vocational education is influenced by 3 main issues:

A certain personal „maturity“ in the sense of

social skills, motivation and self confidence

A certain educational level in order to

comply with the requirements

Orientation as basis for the decision

concerning the way of education

„maturity“

Projects of advance and education

Day by day

training

Development

of vistas

Workshop-

training education

Outreach

work

Open

space

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PS

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train

ing

-

FIT

Know-

ledge-

workshop

Training-

modules Coaching

Sports

activities

Activat-

ing

Excer-

cise Focus

entrance

via (PES) AMS

entrance

open

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ca

tio

n

(IE

)

Youths-

coaching

Education

offer soc.ped.

Accompanying

Vocational

guidance?

Modular model of spacelab – Production-school Vienna 2014

Development of prospects/vistas Der/die Perspektivencoach ist das Bindeglied zwischen allen

Modulen und stellt auch die Verbindung zum AMS Jugendliche dar.

Er/sie bietet kontinuierliche Beziehung, Begleitung und Betreuung

an. Die Nachbetreuung soll lange genug andauern, sodass die

Umstiege nachhaltig abgesichert sind.

Ein Beratungstermin beim Perspektivencoach ist Voraussetzung für

die Teilnahme an allen weiteren Modulen außer OAJA.

Auch die Zuweisung durch das AMS erfolgt über den/die

Perspektivencoach. Im Gegenzug vermittelt der/die

Perspektivencoach Jugendliche, für die andere AMS-Angebote

geeigneter erscheinen, an das AMS.

Day by day training Die Möglichkeit zur tageweisen (5,5 Std.) Mitarbeit

ist für die Jugendlichen mit einem Mindestmaß an

Verbindlichkeit und Aktivität verbunden.

Für die Mitarbeit erhalten die Jugendlichen ein

Taschengeld. Ziel und Zweck dieses Angebotes ist es,

Jugendlichen (wieder ) positive Erfahrung mit sich selbst

im „Arbeits-“ und „Leistungs-“ Kontext machen zu lassen.

Sie müssen pünktlich sein, sich aktiv einbringen und in

der Gruppe auf Basis der Grundregeln auskommen.

training-

(1)day

Development

of

prospects

workshoptraining 25 Wochenstunden Training in Werkstätten. DLU Bezug, Wechsel zwischen Übung und realem Auftrag, implizite

Bildungsinhalte (Lesen, Schreiben, Rechnen) und begleitende Angebote (Outdoor, Burschen/Mädchen, Lebenspraktische

Inhalte wie gemeinsames Kochen bis hin zu Berufsorientierung, Praktika und Bewerbungstraining)

Ziel: Vorbereitung auf weiterführende Angebote, Erlernen von Tagesstruktur, Ausbau von sozialen Kompetenzen, Verbesserung

der Kulturtechniken. Mögliche Werkstättenschwerpunkte sind: Medienwerkstatt, Kreativwerkstatt, Ökowerkstatt,

Grünraumwerkstatt, technische Experimentierwerkstatt, Haustechnikwerkstatt, Fahrradwerkstatt oder Recyclingwerkstatt. Sofern

die inhaltliche Ausrichtung es erlaubt, findet an einem Tag/Woche arbeitsnahes Training (wie bspw. greenlab, Weinproduktion,

Fahrradreparatur, Kunstprojekte…) statt. An diesen Tagen erfolgt das Training nicht vor Ort in den Werkstätten , sondern am

Auftragsstandort eines Kooperationspartners.

workshop-

training

Education Primäre Zielgruppe sind Jugendliche die sich im

Modul Werkstättentraining befinden. Aufbauend

auf den Ergebnissen eines zielgruppengerechten

Kompetenzfeststellungsverfahrens wird ein

individueller Bildungsplan erstellt. Dieser ist die

Grundlage für die Lerninhalte, die sowohl

begleitend im Werkstättentraining (= implizit) als

auch in der Lernwerkstatt und der

Philosophiewerkstatt (=explizit) vermittelt

werden. Die Ziele sind:

Förderung einer positiven Lernmotivation,

Aufbau und Vertiefung von

Basisbildungskompetenzen,

Aufbau von Handlungskompetenz und

Heranführung an folgende (Aus-)

Bildungssysteme

education

Open and visiting youth work (OAJA) Im Kontext von spacelab – PS Wien wird die aufsuchende Arbeit als

Jugendarbeit im öffentlichen Raum und bei Events zur Information

und Aktivierung der Zielgruppe definiert.

Es gibt ausreichend Ressourcen für die aufsuchende Arbeit, um

Jugendliche im öffentlichen Raum gezielt ansprechen

zu können und dadurch die Schwelle für eine Teilnahme zu

reduzieren. Die Kooperation mit der offenen Jugendarbeit

ist ein zentraler Bestandteil von spacelab – PS Wien.

An allen Standorten, die dafür geeignet sind, gibt es

einen „Offenen Raum“, der ein wichtiges

niedrigschwelliges Angebot zum unverbindlichen

(Wieder-)Andocken bei spacelab darstellt.

visiting

work

X

X

X

X = entrance possibilities into

the project. The referral by the

public employment service is

via coach for the prospects

X open

space

spacelab

Project‘s Presentation

MOTIVES FOR THE REALISATION OF SPACELAB The experience of prior projects led to the development of the modular

concept with different levels of personal commitment in 2009. Before there

had not been any programme combining methods of open youth work and

labour market aims. The realisation of spacelab should provide a low-

threshold programme for the youngsters that allows them to come back

after dropouts.

TARGET GROUP

Viennese youngsters from 15 to 25 years, who are neither in education,

employment nor training (NEETs) and have a more difficult access to the

labour market. The gender ratio is 70% male to 30% female participants.

In 2012 spacelab supported 378 clients (271 m, 107 f).

SPACELAB

THE ORGANISATIONS

spacelab is implemented by five NGOs, that provide and

combine their particular expertise:

Volkshilfe - Beschäftigung (Vocational Training)

Association of Youth Centres in Vienna (Youth Work)

WUK (Assistance and Counselling)

Wiener Volkshochschulen (Basic Education)

Sprungbrett für Mädchen

(Vocational Training and Counselling for young women)

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Developement of personal and vocational prospects

Activation of the target group

Stabilise participants (in economic and mental terms)

Develope their skills potential and competencies

Practice-oriented occupational guidance

To draw up personalised career developement plans

Integrate them into support and employment systems or the labour

market

FACILITIES IN VIENNA

10, Knöllgasse 2

15, Hütteldorferstraße 81b

21, Dr.-Albert-Geßmann-Gasse 38

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?

Daily Vocational Training Continuous Vocational Training

Basic Education

Open and Detached Youth Work Open space, outreach work, public relations, networking

Prospect Developement Assistance and career plans

MODULAR CONCEPT

RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

The main objetive of spacelab is the developement of personal and

professional prospects. More than 95% of the participants who stay for

more than three months have a vocational perspective.

The results of this intensive assistance process are documented and

transmitted to the counsellor at the unemployment office (AMS). This

facilitates further measures for the integration into the labour market.

In 2013 36% of the participants started a scholar career, an

appranticeship, other qualification programmes or got employed.

Moreover 10% were sent to more specific institutions.

RESULTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

The successful work of spacelab was awarded with the

ESF award for innovations in 2013.

Thank you for your attention!

Wiener ArbeitnehmerInnen Förderungsfonds

Vienna Employment Promotion Fund

Nordbahnstraße 36, A-1020 Vienna

Tel. 217 48

waff@waff.at

www.waff.at

Eva.Krennbauer@waff.at