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Within the strategic guidelines on developmental education, InWEnt Saxony-Anhalt planned a symposium on “Labour Market Potentials of Immigrants” as opening event for this year´s Intercultural Week. 85 representatives of private enterprises, regional trade associations, immigrant organisations, education providers and other non-governmental organizations participated in the conference. In his opening statement, Holger Hövelmann, Home Secretary of Saxony-Anhalt, pointed to the great impor-tance of exploring the potentials of immigrants in various contexts and closed his presentation by saying “Our federal state needs immigrants”. Susi Möbbeck, the Integration Commissioner of Saxony-Anhalt, afterwards presented facts and figures on the current situation of immigrants in Germany and in Saxony-Anhalt in particular and highlighted attempts for integrating them into the labour market. In his presentation, Dr. Thomas Brockmeier, director of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Halle-Dessau, shed light on the demand of the private sector for skilled foreign personnel in...

The International Meeting "TVET Teachers and Trainers - Concepts in academic Education and Research" took place in Magdeburg from September 13 till September 15, 2010. You will find some materials of the conference on this page. There will be some updates in the next weeks too.