One of the biggest challenges of our time is to find a way how to integrate refugees into our society and labour market. Refugees with good prospects to remain should be trained systematically, quickly and pragmatically. That way, they will be able to take part in society and live a self-determined life. The social partners of the German chemicals industry, IG BCE and BAVC, want to inform why in the longrun it will be better to have been trained vocationally than to earn small wages working a temporary job. Vocational training in the chemicals industry opens up good opportunities; and the social partners of the German chemicals industry have decade-long experience with their collective agreement „Start in the Profession“ how to prepare disadvantaged teenagers for vocational training.
