Webinar Slide Deck on Wisconsin, German Strategies to Advance Apprenticeship

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Efforts to advance apprenticeship on both sides of the Atlantic took another step forward with a free public webinar that highlighted a unique collaboration among apprenticeship leaders from Wisconsin and Germany.

The webinar, Advancing Apprenticeship: An International Collaboration, featured speakers including Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Secretary Amy Pechacek; German Deputy Consul General Dirk Schulz; Mike Qualter, Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship; Professor Hubert Ertl, Vice President of BIBB (BIBB is Germany's Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training); DWD Division of Employment and Training Administrator Michele Carter, Professor Henning Klaffke of the Hamburg University of Applied Science; and DWD Apprenticeship Bureau Director David Polk.

The webinar continued a series of Wisconsin-German visits that started in 2018. In the most recent exchange, leaders from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Milwaukee Area Technical College, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee traveled to German cities of Bonn, Koblenz, and Berlin for visits organized by the German Office for International Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training.

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