Project description:

Mobile vocational training involves carrying out workplace tasks regardless of location and across different locations, with a view to acquiring vocational competence. However, in the context of digital transformation, it has not yet been made clear exactly what challenges mobile working poses for initial vocational training, nor what consequences this has for trainees. As these developments mean that the workplace – traditionally the dominant face-to-face learning environment – is losing its significance, mobile vocational training places new demands on the organisation of in-company training and requires the establishment of new teaching and learning approaches. Furthermore, the trainees are faced with new career guidance and learning challenges which – according to one of the project’s initial hypotheses – influence their professional socialisation, their self-perception and the development of their professional identity (both individually and collectively).

The project generates empirical findings on occupation- and sector-specific characteristics of mobile apprenticeships across three sectors. Given the uncertainty surrounding future vocational qualification and competence requirements, and the resulting implications for vocational training, the project provides insights into organisational structures and the reality of apprenticeships as subjectively experienced.