Recruiting young talent

Since 2016, this competition has been exploring how the very youngest imagine flying. The Dahme-Spreewald district and the Economic Development Agency encourage four to six-year-olds to present their ideas on a large screen, as a collage, or a model of a rocket or space. Anything with an aerospace-related theme is allowed.

The first three winning nurseries will be awarded a cash prize. The first-place finishers will also receive an invitation to the ILA Berlin Air Show, which is held every two years in the Dahme-Spreewald district. (Note: Due to the cancellation of the ILA 2020 aerospace exhibition, the awards ceremony will take place at the Aerospace Technology Centre Schönefelder Kreuz in Wildau. The date will be announced later.)

All competition entries will subsequently be shown in a small “touring exhibition” in Königs Wusterhausen and Lübben.

How do planes fly? How does lift happen? How can a model aeroplane fly without controls? Primary school children with an interest in technology learn the answers to these questions in practical exercises and experiments. For example, engineers from the VDlni Club Berlin show the children how different things “set themselves in motion” with the help of electronic components, how home-made gliders behave in flight and how drones take off and land safely.

The Dahme-Spreewald Economic Development Agency and the VDlni Club Berlin initiated the pupils’ workshop in 2017 to give six- to twelve-year-olds an age-appropriate introduction to the world of aviation technology. The event takes place under the patronage of Tina Fischer, member of the regional parliament, who has been committed to vocational guidance in the Dahme-Spreewald district for many years.

Partners

• Dahme-Spreewald Economic Development Agency
• VDIni Club Berlin

Every year the Economic Development Agency organises the “Training for the Future! Find out what fits!” training fair for the Dahme-Spreewald district at the “Oberstufenzentrum” sixth-form college in Königs Wusterhausen. Here companies from the region present their varied career opportunities and recruit young talent. Experience shows that if trainers and their current trainees speak to students, parents and grandparents directly, it is easier to establish contact and avoid any potential inhibitions that may otherwise hamper the discussion. Hands-on technology and captivating interactive initiatives at the exhibition booth further increase participants’ curiosity about a company. Most of the companies have taken part every year – for us that’s the best proof that the concept works.

Further information, dates, exhibitors and programme:

www.zukunft-ausbildung-lds.de

Partners

• Dahme-Spreewald Economic Development Agency
• Dahme-Spreewald district
• Cottbus Chamber of Industry and Commerce
• Cottbus Chamber of Trade
• Cottbus Employment Agency
• Dahme-Spreewald Job Centre
• Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse

The Dahme-Spreewald Economic Development Agency has initiated the “Young Professionals Aerospace” event series for young academics. Four times a year, students, graduates, postgraduates and young professionals from technical disciplines are given the opportunity to learn more about a career in Berlin-Brandenburg as a centre for aerospace and to talk directly to potential employers. First-rate speakers from business and science highlight career-entry and development opportunities and pass on their own professional experience.

Partners

• Dahme-Spreewald Economic Development / Aerospace Technology Centre in Wildau
• Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences
• Technical University of Berlin
• Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
• VDF Vereinigung der Dienstleister an Deutschen Flughäfen e.V.
• Wirtschaftsförderung Land Brandenburg GmbH