Denmark: Across the Border

Ger­man-Dan­ish Project »Across the border«

Forum for voca­tion­al train­ing and qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the Kreis­handw­erk­er­schaft Ostholstein/Plön/Lübeck and CELF — Cen­ter for Erhvervs­ret­tede uddan­nesler Lol­land-Fal­ster (Den­mark)
»Come on girls — get tech­ni­cal – across the border!«

Young women are still clear­ly under­rep­re­sent­ed in craft, tech­ni­cal and sci­en­tif­ic fields. The aim is to show school­girls the range of career oppor­tu­ni­ties in these fields and to awak­en their inter­est in them, as well as to pro­mote the will­ing­ness of com­pa­nies to employ female work­ers. Through our coach­ing and a vari­ety of offers, young women receive new impuls­es for their career choice and future per­spec­tives. A cross-bor­der project of the dis­trict craft asso­ci­a­tions of Osthol­stein, Plön and Lübeck and CELF in Denmark.

Tasks: Devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of an exchange sem­i­nar between Ger­man and Dan­ish young women. More infor­ma­tion: http://www.girls-get-technical.de/

Eng­lish Promo

Learn more about and from oth­er young women liv­ing in the Fehmarn­belt area – across the bor­der. You and oth­er young women from Den­mark and Ger­many will talk about the worlds you all live in and dis­cuss your life con­cepts with one anoth­er. Maybe you already know that you can use your oppor­tu­ni­ties across bor­ders in order to learn and prac­tice a »male-dom­i­nat­ed« pro­fes­sion. This exchange project is designed to give you an idea of first steps into this direction.

At a two-day sem­i­nar in autumn 2010, you will the­ma­tise the dif­fer­ent worlds you live in and your ideas about life con­cepts. You will like­wise dis­cuss the oth­er cul­ture, but also address the idea of learn­ing and prac­tic­ing a »male-dom­i­nat­ed« pro­fes­sion. You will under­stand the oppor­tu­ni­ties that are offered to you through a coop­er­a­tion across bor­ders and you will become curi­ous about the respec­tive oth­er coun­try with its own oppor­tu­ni­ties. Fur­ther­more, you have the chance to remain in con­tact with one another.

The group

You are one of 16 young women from the Fehmarn­belt Region who are inter­est­ed in hand­i­craft, tech­ni­cal and nat­ur­al sci­ence pro­fes­sions and are will­ing to par­tic­i­pate in this sem­i­nar. The sem­i­nar is held in English.

Prepa­ra­tion

A restrict­ed Face­book group will serve to famil­iarise the par­tic­i­pants with each oth­er and to already address ques­tions of the sem­i­nar. Train­ers from both coun­tries will also participate.