Overview

• Economic minister Daniel Keller urged young people from Berlin to start vocational training in Brandenburg, arguing both states would benefit.
• Keller pointed to a mismatch with more apprentices than available places in Berlin, while Brandenburg has capacity to train.
• He called for overcoming the perceived border in youths’ minds and emphasized mobility and housing as practical preconditions.
• Brandenburg reported more than 10,000 new apprenticeship contracts last year and about 9,700 training firms, with officials seeking to extend the 10,000-per-year target agreed for 2023–2025.
• The Unternehmensverbände Berlin-Brandenburg backed continuing the target, proposed setting a goal for employing migrants, and urged reinstatement of the VBB Azubi-Ticket that expired in 2024.