Germany: with GOVET, the country rationalizes its advice structures to sell its vocational training system abroad

Since the last crisis, we’ve seen that young people’s access to the labor world was much safer in countries with a “dual” vocational training system: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands or Switzerland are weighed down under requests for advice from European and non-European countries.  To face this inflow better, the German government has redefined its strategy on the subject.  Thus, in early February, it presented the German Office for International Cooperation and Vocational Education and Training (GOVET), a new service answering to the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB).  It follows the principle of ‘single office,’ being at the same time the primary interlocutor for the foreign “clients” and a coordination unit for all German stakeholders in the sector.  After focusing on German businesses’ training needs abroad, it now seems that the spreading of the dual system mostly comes from the States.