Skilled worker shortage: New project aims to make it easier for international talent to enter the job market
Career Center at Hamburg University of Technology selected for DAAD funding
12.03.2024
With the Career Center's new "FitING in Germany" project, Hamburg University of Technology aims to support highly qualified, international engineering talents in entering the German job market and thus counteract the shortage of skilled workers in the region. The project will be funded from April onwards by the "Campus Initiative Internationale Fachkräfte" of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The focus of the project is to support Bachelor's and Master's students in successfully completing their studies and to make the transition from university life to working life easier for them. Specifically, they are to be offered certificates, excursions and networking events with selected companies from the region as well as German courses with subject-specific language or business German via the Career Center.
The TU Hamburg has been offering a comprehensive English-language study program since 1997. Last year, the proportion of international students was 22 percent. "Highly qualified specialists are needed to achieve the goals set out in Hamburg's Climate Plan 2030. The TU will be able to further strengthen its contribution to achieving these goals through the new project," says Deputy Head of the Career Center Michaela Hoppe. "We have already been successfully implementing offers to promote employability for students for a long time and are now looking forward to intensifying the focus on international specialists."
About the funding
As part of the "Campus Initiative Internationale Fachkräfte", the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will be supporting universities across Germany in qualifying international students as future specialists from April 2024 onwards. A total of around 120 million euros in funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is available for the initiative until 2028. The Career Center at TU Hamburg submitted an application for 1.15 million euros and has now been selected for funding.
See also: https://www.tuhh.de/tuhh/en ... -your-studies/career-center
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Kaja Weber
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