The focus: Lower Saxony starts offensive to secure skilled workers!

The focus: Lower Saxony starts offensive to secure skilled workers!

in Hamburg something is happening in the field of vocational training. On June 21, 2025, the Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg presented the “Trees 2025” award in Salzgitter, which focuses on the importance of vocational training for securing skilled workers. This also notes roundblick-niedersachsen.de and emphasizes how Lower Saxony takes special measures.

The initiatives include extended scope for action and relieved career in order to combat the lack of teachers. In addition, professional orientation is improved and additional staff is discontinued. This is particularly important because, according to Volker Schmidt, managing director of Niedersachsen-Metall, vocational school teachers are considered "silent heroes of securing skilled workers". This means that your work often stays below the radar, but is invaluable.

award and recruitment challenges

The award of the prize was awarded to Tobias Kirchner from the Werner von Siemens School in Hildesheim, as well as at BBS Neustadt am Rübenberge and BBS Winsen (Luhe). Each award has a prize money of 2,500 euros, which is awarded every two years by the Foundation and the Lower Saxony-Metall employers' association. But the challenges remain: the economy demands a nationwide recruiting offensive to address the acute lack of vocational school teachers, especially in commercial and technical apprenticeships.

These concerns are in accordance with the efforts of the federal government, as in the guidelines of the BMBF. Germany needs well -qualified workers to not only combat the shortage of skilled workers, but also to secure sustainable growth. Therefore, programs for career orientation should be reinforced. This also includes offers that promote lifelong learning and increase permeability between levels of education.

The way to securing skilled workers

The Federal Government also plans to increase the employment of women, older people and refugees. A current skilled worker strategy aims to reduce obstacles and to promote immigration of specialists from abroad. bmwk.de points out that women and people with a migration background in particular offer great potential in the German labor market. Support measures for their integration into education and in the job are more necessary than ever.